[spectre] Darlene Tong and Greg Niemeyer join Leonardo/ISAST Board

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Leonardo/ISAST 
Elects New Members Darlene Tong and Greg Niemeyer
to Its Governing Board

Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology is
pleased to announce the election of two new members to its Governing Board,
a group that consists of prominent figures in the fields of art, science,
and technology. Darlene Tong and Greg Niemeyer, along with the rest of the
ISAST Governing Board members, will participate actively in fulfilling the
mission of Leonardo/ISAST.

Darlene Tong joins the ISAST Governing Board as a librarian at San Francisco
State University, where she has been employed for nearly 30 years. Her
responsibilities at SFSU have included coordinating a new library building
project and collection development for all art and design subject areas
within the library holdings. A prolific writer and speaker, Tong has
presented material on archiving new media and on multiculturalism in the
arts. Tong is compiling the bibliography and chronology for the California
Asian American Artists Biographical survey project. In addition to serving
on the Leonardo/ISAST Board, Tong also serves on the Advisory Board of the
Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives and on the Board of Directors of
La Mamelle/Art Com, a non-profit artist organization that supports and
disseminates works incorporating new ideas and technologies, including
performance, on-line and electronic formats.

Also joining the Governing Board, Greg Niemeyer studied Classics and
Photography in Switzerland before he came to the United States in 1992. As
an MFA graduate student at Stanford University, he founded the Stanford
University Digital Art Center (SUDAC). Currently Greg Niemeyer is a
professor of New Media Art at the University of California at Berkeley,
where he is a founding member of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media.
Supported by the prestigious Intel Art and Technology Research Grant and,
recently, the F. Warren Hellman Grant, he completed several digital media
installations that explore novel experiences with computing. His latest
installation, in collaboration with Chris Chafe, is Organum, a movie about
the resilience of human motives in the face of biological and technological
change. 

Tong and Niemeyer join Roger Malina, Chair; Martin Anderson, Treasurer; Mark
Resch, Secretary; Penelope Finnie; Michael Joaquin Grey; Lynn Hershman; Ed
Payne; Anne Brooks Pfister; Sonya Rapoport; Beverly Reiser; Piero Scaruffi;
Joel Slayton; and Stephen Wilson on the Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board.

Leonardo/ISAST serves the international arts community by promoting and
documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology,
and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists,
scientists, and technologists. For further information, visit
www.leonardo.info
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