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FYI: Babbage Analytical Engine designs to be digitised

The Science Museum in London has agreed to help by digitising the mathematician’s original plans. Eventually the images will be used to create a full working model of the Analytical Engine. Conceived in the late 1830s, it foreshadowed the modern computer revolution by more than a century. Babbage’s many notepads and sketch books are currently held in the [...]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: HYPOTHESIS: AN ART/SCIENCE FAIR AT THE LAB, SAN FRANCISCO:

The Lab invites artists, scientists, writers, musicians, performers, theorists, and other makers to participate in Hypothesis: An Art/ Science Fair to be held on November 5, 2011 in conjunction with the Bay Area Science Festival. Participants will present their practice in the form of a traditional science fair display, using the “scientific method” to: define [...]

Ann: ISEA2011 Curatorial Concept UNCONTAINABLE

http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/other-event/uncontainable The lines and borders of contemporary national states present the observer with ideological and cultural frameworks that are no longer valid. Concepts of identity, cultural identifiers, nation state and belonging as well as place and time are challenged in both real and virtual contexts. In the 21st century the idea of creating cultural products that are solely a reflection [...]

CFP: Science and Method in the Humanities

Science and Method in the Humanities (3/2/12, abstracts due 11/1/11) Rutgers University announces “Science and Method in the Humanities,” an interdisciplinary graduate symposium to be held on March 2, 2012, with keynote speakers Peter Dear (Cornell University) and Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Duke University). The aim of the conference is to explore questions of method and [...]

Review: Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti

Reviewed by Amy Ione for Leonardo Reviews Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin is the fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009. The workshop brought together cognitive and neuroscientists, artists, philosophers, and others interested in expanding beyond the reductionistic, brain-focused approach that predominated in early art and the brain publications. Divided into three [...]

Leonardo Review: September Reviews Posted

Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, Brandon Ballengée Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope, Editors Reviewed by Mike Leggett The Milemete Treatise and Companion Secretum Secretorum: Iconography, Audience, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England by Libby Karlinger Escobedo Reviewed by Rob Harle The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. [...]

Exhibition: Digital2011: The Alchemy of Change

13th international digital print exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations and held at the New York Hall of Science Sept.3, 2011 – February 5, 2012 Reception: Oct.2, 2011 (3-5pm) It’s not often that a noted author is comfortable writing about both art and science. Philip Ball, who was an editor at NATURE magazine for 20-years, is just such [...]

Now Available: MISH MASH: Issue 1 of the all-new Leonardo Electronic Almanac

MISH MASH, Issue 1 of the all-new Leonardo Electronic Almanac is now available as a free PDF. With this re-launch the editors are working on implementing availability on a wide range of digital platforms. The issues are published online but will also be rolled out on a series of e-publishing platforms ranging from Print on [...]

Exhibition: Sandro Botticelli | Michael Joaquin Grey

Curated by Stefan Weppelmann at Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museum) Exhibition Dates: September 3, 2011 – August 18, 2012 A catalogue with art publisher Walter König will be published on the occasion of this exhibition. Featuring essays by Dr. Edward Shanken, Dr. Brigit Blass-Simmen, and Dr. Stefan Wepplemann. More information: www.sherinnajjar.com

New Book: IMAGERY IN THE 21st CENTURY

Edited by Oliver GRAU with Thomas VEIGL Cambridge/Mass., MIT Press, 2011 ISBN-10: 0-262-01572-2 Scholars from science, art and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis. With contributions a.o. by Marie-Luise ANGERER, Olaf BREIDBACH, Adrian CHEOK, Wendy CHUN, Sean CUBITT, James ELKINS, Oliver GRAU, Stefan HEIDENREICH, Eduardo [...]