[spectre] Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks: A Leonardo Multimedia E-book and Web Companion

[bureaud at altern.org]

Leonardo is pleased to announce:

Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks:
A Leonardo Multimedia E-book and Web Companion

E-book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q

Web Companion: http://www.AHCNcompanion.info

Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info) is pleased to announce the publication
of the e-book and web companion Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks (
EBOOK http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q and Web Companion  http://
www.ahcncompanion.info ).

Produced in partnership with the ATEC program at the University of Texas,
Dallas (http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/) and MIT Press (http://
www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/leon), this projects of 25 articles, documents
the work of 45 leading researchers whose work explores the meaning and
application of the science of complex networks to art history, archeology,
visual arts, music, the art market and other areas of cultural importance.

The publication editors are art historian Max Schich, designer Isabel
Meirelles and Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina.

The publication is part of the Leonardo/OLATS (www.olats.org) participation
in the STUDIOLABS project (http://www.olats.org/studiolab/studiolab.php),
which brings together leading European scientific and cultural groups
around the topics of complex networks, the future of water and synthetic
biology.

Keynote Presentations are by:

Burak Arikan, Artist based in New York and Istanbul, USA/Turkey
Pedro Cano, Chief Technology Officer, bmat.com, Barcelona, Spain
Miriah Meyer, Assistant Professor, University of Utah, USA
Marek Claassen, Director, ArtFacts.Net
Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden, Researchers, Harvard
University
Nathalie Henry Riche, Researcher, VIBE group, Microsoft Research, Seattle
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg,Google, Cambridge, Masssachusetts
Ward Shelley, Parsons Fine Arts, The New School, NY
David Crandall, Indiana University, and Noah Snavely, Cornell University

*Arts Humanities and Complex Networks: A Leonardo e-book and web companion*

E-book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q

Web Companion: http://www.AHCNcompanion.info