The Lloyd Library and Museum proudly announces a new online exhibit: The Magic and Myth of Alchemy (http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/alchemy/index.html), created in honor of the International Year of Chemistry, an event celebrated by chemists and chemistry associations throughout 2011. While the Lloyd does not hold the most ancient treatises from Asia or the Middle East, the Lloyd holds a wealth of materials from [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Art category.
Recently published: Multiple Discovery article
Multiple discovery is the technical concept used to explain the difficulty in assigning independent priority when two or more scientists or inventors give expression to a similar theory, form, model, or invention. My updated article on this subject was recently published in the edition of the Encyclopedia of Creativity. Please email me for a pdf of the article.
Review: East Bay Open Studios 2011 (EBOS 2011)
by Amy Ione EBOS 2011 is presented by ProArts Gallery in Oakland, CA. This review was prepared for Leonardo Reviews . After reviewing the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference [1], held in Berkeley in 2009, two thoughts kept reverberating in my mind as time passed. First, I thought about the many reviews I have written [...]
July 2011 Leonardo Reviews Posted
July 2011 Arnheim for Film and Media Studies by Scott Higgins, Editor Reviewed by Ian Verstegen ArtScience: A Journey Through Creativity – permanent exhibition and Travelling the Silk Road exhibition Reviewed by Stella Veciana Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work by Nigel Cross Reviewed by Dene Grigar East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition [...]
Ann: Visualising Matter: The Graphic Teaching Tools of Chemistry in the Age of Revolution
Small Exhibition Royal Society of London, Carleton House 12 July – 31 August http://royalsociety.org During the late eighteenth-century chemistry emerged as a cutting-edge scientific discipline in Europe. This intellectual ascent was sparked by the rise of medical chemistry, mining academies, the industrial revolution and the discovery that air was not a singular substance. Indeed, the isolation of carbon dioxide, [...]
CFP: Art and Knowledge
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Art and Knowledge.” Special issue of Fragmenta, Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome The interdisciplinary journal “Fragmenta” welcomes contributions to the theme Art and Knowledge in Italy and the European Republic of Letters, 1500-1750. The volume explores the ways in which knowledge was shaped and shared among painters, architects, collectors [...]
FYI: Synesthésie: vues de l’intérieur” now online
Now online: “Synesthésie: vues de l’intérieur” ( synesthesia: Views form inside) by Hervé-Pierre Lambert
Ann: Leonardo Reviews Post June 2011
Affect and Artificial Intelligence by Elizabeth A. Wilson Reviewed by Jussi Parikka A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City by Despina Stratigakos Reviewed by Zainub Verjee Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe by Nikos Kotsopoulos, Editor Reviewed by Florence Martellini Grafik Dynamo by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett, with essay by Joseph Tabbi Reviewed by Dene [...]
4th World Children’s Festival: Washington DC, June 17-19, 2011
The World Children’s Festival is “Olympics” of our creativity and co-creation. Held every four years since 1999, the WCF has evolved into our largest international celebration and a permanent quadrennial event in our Nation’s Capital. We bring together our diverse global communities to share with them a transformative experience that empowers us to shape the [...]
