[spectre] Fwd: Leonardo/ISAST Elects New Board Chair

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:52:35 -0700
From: Leonardo/ISAST <isast at leonardo.info>
To: leonardo-isast at mit.edu
Subject: [Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo/ISAST Elects New Board Chair

LEONARDO/ISAST ELECTS NEW BOARD CHAIR
Jeffrey N. Babcock Elected Chairman of the Board
Roger F. Malina Named Chairman Emeritus

In elections during a 40th Anniversary Retreat held by the Board of
Directors of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences
and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST), Jeffrey N. Babcock was elected Chairman
of the Board, and Roger F. Malina was named Chairman Emeritus while
continuing to serve as a voting member of the Board.

"I am indeed honored to be asked to serve as Chairman of
Leonardo/ISAST," stated Babcock. "I look forward to working to
strengthen and broaden the organization's programmatic scope while
sustaining and building upon a 40-year foundation and legacy of
pioneering publications and initiatives at the intersection of art,
science and technology.

"Roger Malina has served Leonardo with extraordinary commitment, passion
and vision for more than a quarter century, and I am delighted that he
will continue to be actively involved as our first Chairman Emeritus,
Co-Chair of a newly invigorated International Advisory Council, and
Executive Editor of Leonardo Publications. Roger's enthusiasm and
outreach will position the organization to connect and pursue important
new opportunities with leading creators, researchers, leaders and
institutions throughout the world."

Roger Malina confirmed his enthusiasm for serving as Chairman Emeritus
of Leonardo/ISAST, as well as his commitment to helping the organization
identify and champion the "New Leonardos" - innovative creators around
the world who work with art, science and technology:

"Many of the problems that faced artists involved in science and
technology in the 1960s, when Leonardo was founded, have been overcome.
The pioneering work of early computer artists led to whole new
industries in computer media, from games to pocket films to online
communities. Now we look to the work of artists involved in climate
change and sustainable development, in biology and genomics, in
nanoscience and space exploration to imagine new ways of coupling art,
science and technology as part of a tool kit for human survival."

Chairman Jeffrey N. Babcock has served on the Leonardo/ISAST Board of
Directors since 2007. He is a composer, producer and arts executive with
a special interest and expertise in creative technologies. As Executive
Director of San Francisco State University's International Center for
the Arts, he leads a multidisciplinary team of innovators who pursue
cross-disciplinary initiatives in documentary film, visual arts and
design, and performing arts. An entrepreneurial executive, Babcock
co-founded (with San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson
Thomas) and served as president & CEO of the New World Symphony and Los
Angeles Philharmonic Institute with artistic directors Leonard Bernstein
and Michael Tilson Thomas, and directed Atlanta's Cultural Olympiad and
1996 Olympic Arts Festival. In the academic field, he was Dean of Fine
Arts at Boston University and Executive Director of the University of
Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Babcock received a B.A.
(cum laude) and a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of
California, Santa Barbara, which honored him with a Distinguished Alumni
Award in 1992.

Chairman Emeritus Roger F. Malina is an astronomer and space scientist.
He is the former director of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale CNRS,
Marseille, France, and a member of the International Academy of
Astronautics. He is currently a member of the SNAP consortium to build a
new astronomy satellite to study dark energy and dark matter in the
universe. He was the founding Chairman of Leonardo/ISAST, and since 1982
has served as Executive Editor of the journal Leonardo. He writes and
speaks on the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology.

About Leonardo/ISAST:
The seeds of Leonardo/ISAST began in the late 1960s in Paris with the
founding of the journal Leonardo by rocket scientist and artist Frank
Malina, who visualized an international forum through which artists and
scientists would communicate directly about their work. With Leonardo's
move to San Francisco in 1982, Leonardo/ISAST was formed as a 501(c)3
non-profit organization to expand its vision and goals. Today
Leonardo/ISAST publishes scholarly journals and books, organizes events
and sponsors a wide range of educational and scholarly activities
related to the intersection of art, science and technology, including
the Leonardo Education Forum, Leonardo Abstract Services, and LASER
(Leonardo Art/ Science Evening Rendezvous) meetings, a bimonthly
networking and presentation forum for notable artists, researchers,
authors, scholars and industry leaders in the art/science/ technology
field.

Leonardo/ISAST is committed to pursuing the 21st century's critical
global challenges through cross-disciplinary alliances and
collaborations between leading creators/ researchers in the arts and
sciences. Leonardo/ISAST fosters unique explorations and research
throughout the world, resulting in interdisciplinary projects,
conferences and other events, while also documenting and disseminating
promising ideas and solutions to timely issues of global significance.
Leonardo/ISAST, in partnership with the MIT Press, publishes the
renowned journal Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal, the popular and
rapidly expanding Leonardo Book Series, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac
web journal.

For more information, please visit: http://leonardo.info

A complete listing of the Leonardo/ISAST Board of Directors follows:

Jeffrey N. Babcock, Chairman, Executive Director, International Center
for the Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Greg Harper, Treasurer, Attorney, Harper & Associates, Emeryville, CA
Meredith Tromble, Secretary, Associate Professor, School of
Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Roger F. Malina, Chairman Emeritus, Astronomer/Space Scientist,
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale CNRS, Marseille, France
Michael Joaquin Grey, Artist, Designer, Inventor and Entrepreneur, New
York, NY
John Hearst, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry Department, University of
California at Berkeley; Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Sonya Rapoport, Artist, Berkeley, CA
Beverly Reiser, Artist, Oakland, CA
Christian Simm, Executive Director, swissnex, San Francisco, CA
Tami Spector, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Darlene Tong, Head of Information, Research & Instructional Services,
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Stephen Wilson, Professor, Conceptual/Information Arts Program, San
Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA


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