| Miklos Legrady on Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:30:13 +0100 (CET) |
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Note, all news on this item will be found on the rhizome raw list among others. if interested, you can subscribe at www.rhizome/org The Leonardo Network, hosted at mit.edu, was started in the 1960's and is now being sued by a new finance organization who wants to copyright the name. __________________________________________________________________ Leonardo Network was originally founded in the mid-1960s by Frank Malina, an eminent astronautical pioneer and kinetic artist. Members and founders of the network have included Jacob Bronowski, R. Buckminster Fuller, C.P Snow, C.H Waddington, Frank Oppenheimer, John Cage. Current members include Roy Ascott, Richard Gregory, Lynn Hershman, Annick Bureaud. The network was founded by an earlier generation interested in the use of new media and the sciences in the arts. You can read about the lawsuit at this url http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/pres1220.html ___________________________________________________________ I received the following email from Mr. Malina, son of the founder of Leonardo; From: "Roger F. Malina" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:47:10 -0800 (PST) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: rhizome Cc: [email protected] Miklos Thanks for your email- and really appreciate your support I will get you the leonardo finance people contacts but you can find them on the leonardofinance web site here is our current need list in case you know anyone on the network who might be able to help us - 1)we are also putting on our web site a list of names of people in support of our case, and also statements of support- there can be emailed in to [email protected] 2) we are also thinking of having artists contribute designs of banner ads which people can put on their web site linking to ours like " MY NAME IS LEONARDO - SUE ME" etc we are looking for someone to organise this and host the banners ( our lawyers dont think we should host this on our wbe site-) any ideas? - maybe someone on rhiome would be interested in organising this up 2) we are also starting a web ring of all businesses in the world that have the word leonardo in them ( Like Leonardo maccaroni- proudly sitting on my office shelf) and getting all those companies to mobilise against Transasia - all the Leonardo hairdressers, leonardo restaurants- then we will declare a leonardo day and ask people to patronise all the leonardo businesses in their cities except the bad guys- know anyone thats good at managing web rings ? we are looking for a volunteer 3) we are looking for an on line tee shirt company that would acept artist donated designs for tee shirts-sell the tee shirts- and send a cut to the artist and a cut to the leonardo legal defense fund- then on leonardo day- people can show up in leonardo businesses with "my name is leonardo- sue me" tee shirts 4) We want to organise an on line auction of donated digital art- need someone to organise this up with ebay or someone- again a cut to the artist and a cut to the legal defense fund 5) looking for other ideas /with volunteers attached !!! we are a differnt kind of organisation than etoy but just as determined. roger ___________________________________________________ To the menbers of/Au membres de [email protected], [email protected], <[email protected]> please forward this email to anyone interested priere de passer cette note a tous interesser. Dear List members; We need a clear serious and simple statement to send to Leonardo Finance and I would like to invite everyone to post suggestions on their list as to the statement over the next few days. My suggestion is that we should take one statement and bombard LeonardoFinance until our message gets across. The emails should begin on a specific day, once we are organized Any comments welcome. Cher membres du liste, On a besoint d'un message claire, net, serieux et simple, a envoyer a Leonardo Fiance et j'invite tous le monde a donner leur version Mon idee est que tout le monde envoy cette message a LeonardoFinance jusqu'au moment ou il comprenne. Les email devrait commencer une journer specifique apres que tous le mond est organizer. Miklos Legrady 1086.5 Queen st. w. Toronto, Ont. M6J 1H8 (416) 516-6127 ______________________________ [email protected] http://www.myna.com/~design/ ____________ Kapy Utca 1B Budapest 1025 Hungary 011-36-1-176-4698 ____________ [email protected] http://www.c3.hu/~itmiklos/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]