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