Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the December 2011 postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN: 1559-0429) The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World by David Deutsch Reviewed by Richard Kade Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing by Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell Reviewed by John Vines Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Books category.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
