He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. Read Complete Blog Here About the Author: Artists in academic settings often need to publish in peer reviewed academic journals in order to get promoted and tenure.

And artists can publish in dozens of peer-reviewed Now there are dozens of academic journals in the commercial and non-profit worlds including MIT Press, the current publisher of Leonardo Journal and Books.

Secondly artists were almost never asked to write about their art making and artwork the founder of Leonardo was told “if you have to plug it in, it isn’t art”.

Until the end of WWII academic publishing was carried out by Academies of Art and Academies of Science, and other non-profits such as some Universities, not by commercial publishers.

When Leonardo Journal was founded by Frank Malina, at Pergamon Press, it was different in a number of desirable ways:

As part of this ISAST is carrying out a strategic review to try and understand the future of academic publishing. Roger Malina is stepping down as Executive Editor of Leonardo publications after 40 years of volunteer labor.

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