[spectre] Call for Pioneers in Art and Technology to document their Memories

[Annick2]

Dear Spectrites

A new call from Leonardo for memoirs articles and podcasts.
We are really looking for voices from all over the world !

Best
Annick

With Leonardo’s 50th Anniversary now upon us, the Leonardo 
Pioneers and Pathbreakers project ( 
http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pionniers.php )  is offering 
to document the memories of pioneers in art and new 
technologies for their work prior to 1984.

Papers  and podcasts dealing with the history of 
developments in the arts, sciences and technology are 
solicited.

This project aims to establish reliable, selected, online 
documentation about twentieth-century artists, scholars, 
curators,  and institution builders whose works and ideas 
were seminal in the development of technological art.
Since its founding in 1966, and the publication of the first 
issue in January 1968, Leonardo has accompanied and 
championed the work of the pioneers who were just beginning 
to use computers and other emerging technologies for 
artistic purposes.

We are interested in topics including the following:
●	Memoirs by pioneer artists using new media (holography, 
computer and electronic arts, telecommunication arts, 
interactive arts, new materials, space arts, bio art, etc.). 
Texts must be written by the artist in English and cover an 
extended body of work. Articles and memoirs should be no 
more than 2,500 words and 8 illustrations. Preference will 
be given to artists describing early work carried out prior 
to 1980. Memoirs of engineers and developers who 
collaborated with artists or whose engineering or computer 
science work in the 1960s, 1970s and/or 1980s proved to be 
important for developing new art forms based on new and 
emerging technologies.
●	Memoirs by pioneers from Africa, South America, Asia.
●	Memoirs by curators who organized art-and-technology 
exhibitions in the 1960s, 1970s and/or 1980s
●	Memoirs by pioneering women.
●	Memoirs by pioneering collectors who were early supporters 
of technological artists.
●	Memoirs by pioneering individuals who identify outside of 
the normative gender binary.
●	Memoirs by pioneering institution founders of 
organizations, university programs or centers pre-1984.

●	We are happy to record short podcasts over the phone or 
internet with pioneers for publication on the Creative 
Disturbance podcast platform.
Readers of Leonardo are asked to encourage their colleagues 
to submit such memoirs, which will be invaluable primary 
documents for historians and scholars in the future.

Interested authors should submit manuscript proposals or 
completed manuscripts to the Leonardo Editorial Office. 
Email to: leonardomanuscripts at gmail.com

Memoirs and articles by pioneers recently published in 
Leonardo include:
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/0/ja
A. Michael Noll: “Howard Wise Gallery Show of Digital Art 
and Patterns (1965):  50th Anniversary Memoir” (2015)

Jim Pallas: “Century of Light Shines for Twenty-five Years” 
(2015)

Trudy Myrrh Reagan: “Ylem Rode the Wave, 1981-1986: A Bay 
Area member organization that served artists using science 
and technology until 2009” (2015)

Edmond Couchot: “Digital art: From 60’ to 80’: Point of view 
of an observactor” (2015)

PodCasts published on the Pioneers Pathbreakers Channel of 
Creative Disturbance: 
http://creativedisturbance.org/channel/pioneers-and-pathbreakers/ 

Judy Malloy and Roger Malina: “Pioneer Judy Malloy Thinks 
Aloud about her Role in the Birth of Electronic Literature” 
  (2015, English)

Pamela Grant Ryan and Roger Malina: “Re-thinking the 
Leonardo Journal” (2015, English)

Pierre-Alain Hubert and Roger Malina: “Artiste 
Pyrotechnicien P A Hubert discute ses feux d’artifice et 
musique dans les espaces urbains” (2015, French)

Neil Rolnick and Roger Malina: “Neil Rolnick Remembers 
IRCAM, iEar and Early Days in Art/Technology” (2015, English)

Dan Sandin and Roger Malina “Pioneer Dan Sandin 40 Year Look 
Back at the Analog to Digital, and Video Revolutions” (2015, 
English)

Edmond Couchot and Roger Malina “Contre le Post-Humanisme et 
Vers la Co-evolution de Forms de Vies Numerique et 
Organique” (2015, French)

Jacques Mandelbrojt and Roger Malina “Jacques Mandelbrojt se 
rappelle à voix haute” (2015, French)

Sean B. Carroll and Charissa Terranova “Overlaps in 
Practices Between Humanists and Scientists” (2015, English)