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Leonardo Reviews Posted December 2011

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 [...]

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 [...]

Leonardo Reviews Posted October 2011

Postings at http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN:  1559-0429) Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law by Kembrew McLeod & Rudolf Kuenzli, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979 by Destroy All Monsters Reviewed by Mike Mosher A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities -Neuroscience Divide by Barbara Maria Stafford, Editor [...]

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 [...]