Keynotes, speakers, panelists, performers and attendees will include internationally acclaimed artists, scientists, researchers, educators and scholars.

To date, confirmed speakers include:

David Beining, Founder and Director of DomeFest

Tom Bowles, Chief Science Officer at Los Alamos National Labs and Science Advisor to the State of New Mexico

Center for Visual Music

James Crutchfield, Complexity Science Center, University of California, Davis USA.

Sara Diamond, President of Ontario College of Art & Design and former Director of Research at the Banff Centre, Canada

Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Royal College of Art, London, UK.

Charles Kleiber, Former State Secretary for Education and Research, Switzerland

Roger Malina, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France.

Geetha Narayanan, Director of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore

David Rosenboom, Dean of the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts, NEA awardee and pioneer in American experimental music since the 1960's

Rejane Spitz, Associate Professor at the Department of Art and Design, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Stay tuned for an expanded list!

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF LEONARDO // university of new mexico // march 18-21, 2009
Co-Organized by the ARTS Lab / UNM & Leonardo