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Ann: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks ebook now available

Produced in partnership with Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and MIT Press this project documents the work of 45 leading researchers whose work explores the meaning and application of the science of complex networks to art history, archaeology, visual arts, the art market, and other areas cultural importance.

Art and the Brain: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

Editorial by Amy Ione In press: Scheduled publication: Leonardo October 2012, Vol. 45, No. 3. [Now available online at Leonardo Thinks, here.] In the last few years, the term neuroaesthetics has come to denote research that looks at the relationship between art and the brain. The premise within the field is that we can understand [...]

FYI: Google to Announce Venture With Belgian Museum

Google plans to announce Tuesday that it is forming a partnership with a museum in Mons, Belgium, dedicated to a long-ago venture to compile and index knowledge in a giant, library-style card catalog with millions of entries — an analog-era equivalent of a search engine or Wikipedia. Article

Exhibition: The Art of Networks

3rd Workshop on Complex Networks, Complenet 2012 and Foosaner Art Museum (Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida) March 9 – April 8, 2012 The Art of Networks brings together twelve visualizations representing networks in topics as diverse as migration flows, speech cognition, citations, the spreading of social messages, and housing issues in the U.S. [...]

Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality

Interesting article on the Google Goggles project that allows people to see through computer monitors in lenses. According to Nick Bilton, of the New York Times, Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses. He mentions questions that have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. To [...]