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 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Music category.
Review: Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti
Reviewed by Amy Ione for Leonardo Reviews Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin is the fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009. The workshop brought together cognitive and neuroscientists, artists, philosophers, and others interested in expanding beyond the reductionistic, brain-focused approach that predominated in early art and the brain publications. Divided into three [...]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Royal Ballet Opera
Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party By ROSLYN SULCAS Published: March 1, 2011 LONDON — How do you make a full-length story ballet in 2011? Christopher Wheeldon must have asked himself that as he prepared “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” his much hyped new full-length work for the Royal Ballet, set to a [...]
New Leonardo Reviews posted (January 2011)
Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN: 1559-0429) 3D Typography by Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Article: Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?
By JARON LANIER | New York Times If machines are to improve teaching, we must recognize their limits — and our own capacity for magic. Full article
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.
