Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by Michel Meulders; edited and translated by Laurence Garey, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010, 264 pp., illus. 32 b/w. Trade, $27.95/£19.95, ISBN: 978-0-262-01448-9. A recurring topic among those interested in art, science, and technology is the value of transdisciplinary approaches. In my view, those who gravitate to this area [...]
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings Reviewed by Amy Ione
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings brings together key documents related to institutional critique, a conceptual art movement that has raised questions about the workings of art institution (museums, galleries) since the 1960s. Alexander Alberro (one of the editors of this volume) calls it a “gesture of negation” (p. 3) that was adopted by [...]
What’s New in the Magic Lantern Research Group?
Currently the ‘Magic Lantern Research Group’ is the most extensive online resource on the Magic Lantern, made available by Kentwood Wells and housed on ZOTERO. The Magic Lantern Research group is a library and bibliography of resources for magic lantern research. The resource can be accessed at http://www.zotero.org/groups/magic_lantern_research_group. Best viewed with Mozilla Firefox since ZOTERO fluently works [...]



