After seeing a wonderful automaton exhibition at the San Francisco Airport a few weeks ago, I was delighted to see an article on the Maillardet automaton at the Franklin Institute in today’s New York Times. The Maillardet automaton’s motions are controlled by dozens of slowly rotating brass disks. These disks contain all the data necessary [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Film category.
Ann: Leonardo Reviews online (May 2011)
Compression & Purity by Will Alexander Reviewed by Allan Graubard Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Soren Pold, Editors Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Lecture on György Kepes and Frank J. Malina
Interesting lecture on Roger Malina’s site. It is his Keynote Lecture from “The Pleasure of Light exhibition and conference, an exhibition that presents the pioneering interdisciplinary concepts of György Kepes and Frank J. Malina through the course of their lives, creations and enduring influence. Lots of wonderful photographs in the presentation.
Leonardo Reviews – August 2010
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau: Interactive Art Research <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/aug2010/harle_stocker.php> by Gerfried Stocker, Christa Sommerer, and L.aurent Mignonneau, Editors Reviewed by Rob Harle Dada in Paris <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/aug2010/mosher_sanouillet.php> by Michel Sanouillet; Michèle Humbert, Editorial Consultant; trans. by Sharmila Ganguly; revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in [...]
Review of Lars Becker-Larsen’s The Moving Earth
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 [...]
