The Lab invites artists, scientists, writers, musicians, performers, theorists, and other makers to participate in Hypothesis: An Art/ Science Fair to be held on November 5, 2011 in conjunction with the Bay Area Science Festival. Participants will present their practice in the form of a traditional science fair display, using the “scientific method” to: define [...]
Archive of posts filed under the California category.
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 [...]
San Francisco in Color
The Smithsonian Institution has discovered rare color photographs of the ruins of San Francisco from the 1906 earthquake. The images, taken by photography pioneer Frederick Ives, appear to be the earliest color photographs of San Francisco ever taken. Read more
Farewell to Kodachrome
Eastman Kodak Co announced that the last rolls were hitting the shelves in June 2009. Kodachrome is the first successful color film and perhaps still the most beloved. Indeed, the end is at hand with the last lab in the world that processes the famed color film, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, discontinuing its processing [...]
Kenneth Baker Interviews Wayne Thiebaud
San Francisco Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker conducted an onstage conversation with painter Wayne Thiebaud, a few days after the painter turned 90. The video for the interview is here.
Zero1/Leonardo Symposium Sept 16 & 17: GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism
What does it sound like when influential environmental policy-makers, thinkers, scientists and artists converse in real and exploratory ways? We invite you and your colleagues to join us for GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism, San Jose, CA, September 16 & 17, 2010 — a two-day symposium focused on the interchange of ideas among [...]
Article: Scale models of museums aid designers
Great article by Kenneth Baker on how museums make models of the museum’s gallery spaces and all the objects that might appear in a given show, using foam core, balsa wood and cardboard. Paintings and photographs get miniaturized to scale using Photoshop. Read more
Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci’s Science, Technology, and Art
The Getty Center | Harold M. Williams Auditorium | Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010 | Time: 3:00 p.m. | Admission: Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or “Make Reservation” here. Jonathan Pevsner, professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and scientific consultant to the Discovery Channel’s Doing DaVinci series, explores Leonardo’s wide-ranging [...]
William T. Wiley shows open in the SF Bay Area this week
I’ve been looking forward to the William T. Wiley retrospective (What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley In Retrospect) that opens at the Berkeley Art Museum on March 17th. When I read Kenneth Baker’s review on the retrospective this morning it occurred to me that I fall into the category of those who can’t think [...]
