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Video: World Children’s Festival 2011 (sponsored by the International Child Art Foundation)

Occasionally what transpires in Washington DC can inspire our nation and the world. For more information visit the ICAF site at www.icaf.org

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 [...]

Article: Fish known as wrasses are found to use tools

Giacomo Bernardi, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, reports that on a recent diving expedition to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef he discovered and filmed a wrasse, called an orange dotted tusk fish, using an underwater rock as an anvil to smash a clam’s shell and allow it to devour the flesh inside. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/28/BASB1LAPG2.DTL#ixzz1ZMnMb8kh ==> [...]

Exhibition: Digital2011: The Alchemy of Change

13th international digital print exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations and held at the New York Hall of Science Sept.3, 2011 – February 5, 2012 Reception: Oct.2, 2011 (3-5pm) It’s not often that a noted author is comfortable writing about both art and science. Philip Ball, who was an editor at NATURE magazine for 20-years, is just such [...]

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 [...]