6 June 2010, 9:44 am
by Amy Ione Lars Becker-Larsen’s production of The Moving Earth offers a splendid chronicle of the scientific shift brought about through studies of planetary motion during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. The name of the film refers to the work establishing that Earth is a moving planet and the broadly based content tells [...]
Filed under Art Science Technology, Education, FYI, Film, Journals, Religion, science.
Tagged Amy Ione, Astronomy, Bohr, Brahe, Bruno, Celestial Framework, Church, Copernicus, Denmark, First Run Films, George Coyne, Heliocentric, History of science, Icarus Films, Kepler, Lars Becker-Larsen, Leonardo Reviews, Newton, Owen Gingerich, physics, Platonic, Pope, Prime Mover, Religion, science, Vatican
6 June 2010, 9:28 am
A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php> by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black
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Tagged Amy Ione, Aparna Sharma, Art, Biopolitics, body, C. F. Black, Cinema, Deborah Mulher, Digital, Earth, Ed Cohen, Film, First Run Films, History of science, Icarus, Lars Becker-Larsen, Leonardo, L|R|Q, Manga, Mike Leggett, Mike Mosher, Peter Rosen, Pia Tikka, Reviews, Richard Kade, Robert Poole, science, Stephen King, Stephen Petersen, technology, Van Cliburn
30 May 2010, 11:21 am
Now online here Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the [...]
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Tagged Art, Cinema, Film, Leonardo, Leonardo Reviews, Media, Photography, science, technology, Video
3 May 2010, 3:27 pm
Leonardo Reviews (ISSN: 1559-0429) is pleased to announce the May 2010 postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
Filed under Art, Art Science Technology, Books, FYI, Film, Journals, Media, Music, science, technology.
Tagged Art, Blackouts, Cuture, David Nye, Dennis Dollens, Digital, Jan Baetens, John Vines, Jonathan Finn, Leonardo, Mike Mosher, Mizuko Ito, Rob Harle, science, technology, Video, Virtual
14 March 2010, 1:34 pm
Early Visual Media is pleased to announce the important three volume set ‘A History of Early Film’ selected by Stephen Herbert. See http://www.visual-media.eu/publications_books_cinema.html
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Tagged Cinema, Czechoslovakia, Early Visual Media, Expo '67, Film, History of Early Film, Kinoautomat, Nineeenth-Century, Photography, Popular Arts, Pre-Cinema, Radúz Cinema, Television, Thomas Weynants, twentieth century, Voting System
18 September 2009, 7:01 pm
For over 100 years, filmmakers have imaginatively responded to Darwin'stheory of evolution. This seven-week film series will feature evolutionary monsters andmorality; degeneration, extinction and perfection; clashes betweenevolutionary exponents and religious believers; human meddling with the"natural" course of evolution; and lots of scientists, dinosaurs, supermenand cavewomen!
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Tagged dinosaurs, Evolution, Film, Inherit the Wind, Jekyll Hyde, National Library of Medicine, One Million Years, Planet of the Apes, scientists, The Time Machine
7 September 2009, 1:59 pm
Leonardo Reviews | September 2009New postings
Filed under Announcements, Art, Art Science Technology, Articles, Books, Current Affairs, Education, Film, Journals, Music, Nature/Environment, Web/Tech, Weblogs, science, technology.
Tagged Aparna Sharma, Ashley Dawson, book reviews, Deborah Klocko, Enrico Cerasuoio, Franc Chamberlain, François Cusset, Frank Wilczek, Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Giuseppe Pennisi, Hermann Weyl, ISAST, Jan Baetens, Janet Harbord, Jannifer Ferng, Jo Whaley, John Luther Adams, JonathanZilberg, Judith Roof, Leonardo Reviews, Linda Wiener, Malini Johar Schueller, Michael Christoffersen, Mike Leggett, Nalini M. Nadkarni, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan, Peter Smithers, Rebecca M. Brown, Robert Jackson, Sergio Fergnachino, Theodor W. Adorno
30 August 2009, 4:41 pm
In the last century, the long-running discourse of human-machine relations extended to film and television depictions of struggles for power, intimacy, identity, or security. Potential social conflicts engendered by producing machines that operate in their own self-interest have been explored in films such as
Filed under Announcements, Art Science Technology, CFP, Film, Television, Weblogs, technology.
Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Bladerunner, Cartesian, cyborg, Film, History, human-machine, I, intelligence, Love, Mary 25, Robot, Small Wonder., society, televison, The Bicentennial Man, The Desk Set, The Lonely, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Valerie 23, Woody Allen
27 August 2009, 1:43 pm
e-flux is pleased to announce the opening of its reading room in New York. The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions and individuals from all parts of the world [...]
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Tagged art exhibitions, contemporary art, eflux, New York City, research
5 August 2009, 8:18 pm
Leonardo Reviews (ISSN: 1559-0429) August 2009 posted at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
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Tagged Anthony Enns, Climate Change, Cytowic, Duchamp, Eagleman, Florence Martellini, Gaia, Geoff Cox, George Gessert, James Speth, Jan Baetens, Jonathan Zilberg, Jussi Parikka, Kathrine Elizabeth Anker, Kathryn Adams, Leonardo, Lovelock, Lyons, Mark Lynas, Nameera Ahmed, synesthesia, Thomas Friedman
