[artinfo] Mish Mash: LEA Leonardo Electronic Almanac Call

[Lanfranco Aceti]

CALL FOR ARTICLES Istanbul, November-20-09

SUBJECT mish mash

In December 2009 LEA - Leonardo Electronic 
Almanac, a member of the Leonardo/ISAST/MIT Press 
family - will re-launch. Its new format will 
combine the features of a high-production-value 
art magazine with the scholarly rigor of an 
academic journal. Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in 
Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-editor, intend to 
produce a well illustrated, attractive and 
readable magazine that will simultaneously be 
available online as a hyperlinked 
screen-resolution PDF document, a high-resolution 
print-on-demand magazine and in a downloadable 
version for book readers on electronic devices 
like the Amazon Kindle. The publications will be 
integrated into a regularly updated web portal 
that will provide additional and supporting 
services like announcements, opportunities, 
interactive content-oriented blogs and Wikis. 
This LEA online environment is intended to be a 
hierarchical content generator with the quarterly 
publication representing a punctuated pinnacle of 
this multidimensional, user-driven, 
discipline-oriented social network.

LEA will focus on the convergence of arts, 
science and technology and combine special issue 
front-end features with ongoing thematic 
background content. It will combine invited and 
commissioned essays with peer-reviewed scholarly 
papers.

The target audience for the publication 
encompasses a broad spectrum ranging from 
professionals active in the field to laypeople 
with a general interest in the contemporary arts. 
We believe the time is right for an arts, 
sciences and technology publication pitched 
centrally within the arts mainstream.

The theme of the first issue of the Leonardo 
Electronic Almanac magazine is mish mash.

The first issue will be a collection of articles, 
reviews and opinion pieces that discuss and 
analyze the complexity of mixing things together 
as a process that is not necessarily undertaken 
in an orderly and organized manner. In this issue 
there will be contributions from Frieder Nake, 
Stelarc and other important cultural operators.

Although the magazine is thematically structured, 
the concept of mish mash leaves a wide open 
opportunity to discuss issues in 
interdisciplinary education; art, science and 
technology interactions; personal artistic 
practices; history of re-combinatory practices; 
hybridizations between old and new media; 
cultural creolization; curatorial studies and 
more.
Under the editorship of Lanfranco Aceti and Paul 
Brown the magazine call is open to the0retical, 
scientific and cultural analyses as well as 
practice based pieces or a mish mash of all of 
the above.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) will 
produce an online and print on demand issue, as 
well as host curated images and videos online.
Proposals to: <mailto:info at leoalmanac.org>info at leoalmanac.org

a) Subject heading: mish mash.
b) 500 hundred word abstract for articles.
c) 2 images at 72 dpi resolution no larger than 800 pixels width for artists.
d) Links to previous work, videos or personal sites.
e) Deadline for full papers is February 15, 2010 
for publication in the first issue.
f) Please feel free to disseminate and forward this call to interested parties.

Our publication formats allow for full-color 
throughout and we encourage rich pictorial 
content where relevant and possible. Note however 
that all material submitted must be copyright 
cleared (or due diligence must be evidenced). For 
online publication a wide variety of media 
content may be considered (animation, mp3, flash, 
java, etcŠ)

* For scholarly papers please submit the final 
paper ready for peer review. Your contribution 
will be reviewed by at least two members of the 
LEA board and revisions may be requested subject 
to review.
* For themed and pictorial essays please submit 
an abstract or outline for editorial 
consideration and further discussion.
* Please keep your news, announcements and 
hyperlinks brief and focused - include contact 
details and a link to an external site where 
relevant. We reserve the right to sub-edit your 
submissions in order to comply with LEA policies 
and formats. Where material is time-sensitive 
please include both embargo and expiry dates.
* In all cases specify special system 
considerations where these are necessary 
(platform, codecs, plug-ins, etcŠ)

We hope you share our excitement about the new 
LEA and we look forward to hearing from you!

For further information or images submission 
contact: 
<mailto:Ozden.Sahin at leoalmanac.org>Ozden.Sahin at leoalmanac.org

Lanfranco Aceti
<mailto:Lanfranco.Aceti at leoalmanac.org>Lanfranco.Aceti at leoalmanac.org
Editor in Chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Paul Brown
<mailto:Paul.Brown at leoalmanac.org>Paul.Brown at leoalmanac.org
Co-Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac


<http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com>http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com
Dr. Lanfranco Aceti, Associate Professor in 
Contemporary Art & Digital Culture - Sabanci 
University
Editor in Chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Leonardo Journal and MIT Press)
Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer 
Science, Virtual Reality Environments, University 
College London