San Francisco Chronicle: Full article here ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press, 07/16/10 The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the “Mona Lisa.” French researchers studied seven of the Louvre Museum’s Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the “Mona Lisa,” to analyze the master’s use of successive ultrathin [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Art category.
Old Masters and Modern Science
I do not post as much as I would like to these days, but do feel compelled to note this recent review by Michael Kimmelman in today’s New York Times, titled Old Masters and Modern Science. It looks at an exhibition at the National Gallery in London about the chemistry of painting. According to Kimmelman, [...]
Open Call: DIGITAL’2010: PLANET EARTH
DIGITAL’2010: PLANET EARTH 12th international digital print competition-exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) to be held at the New York Hall of Science Oct.3, 2010 – January 31, 2011 DEADLINE: Aug.16, 2010 Click here for the GUIDELINES <http://www.asci.org/artikel1106.html> with links to: Co-Juror Bios, Online Entry Form, Payment Page] INTRODUCTION Our blue planet, [...]
New Leonardo Reviews: Posted | June 2010
A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php> by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black
Ann: Leonardo Reviews Quarterly 1.01 | June 2010
Now online here Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the [...]
Leonardo Reviews Posted May 2010
Leonardo Reviews (ISSN: 1559-0429) is pleased to announce the May 2010 postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
Ann: Illuminating the Science: Art and Climate Change
Thursday, April 22 at 3pm + 6:30 pm Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave at 34th Street, New York City Free! First come, first served http://web.gc.cuny.edu/MESTC/events/s10/illuminating-science.html
Catastrophic Art
Philadelphia artists enlist the help of a mathematician to convey the idea that sometimes, all it takes is one small change for an elaborate biological system to crash.
CFP: The first International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture
“New Imaging: transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media”. Takes place on 5 – 6 November at Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney, NSW 2011. Deadline for Abstracts: June 25, 2010 A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as [...]
Review: Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution by Philip Prodger
Reviewed by Amy Ione The idea that context is an important component in both the presentation and nature of empirical studies became popular at the end of the twentieth century and is often considered an outgrowth of Kuhnian paradigms. With the elevation of paradigmatic perspectives, however, came the quandaries of what contextual research “means” in [...]
