Volume 4 – Spring, 2013: Published by SUNY Press, TER provides a forum for evolutionary critiques in all the fields of the arts, human sciences, and culture: essays and reviews on film, fiction, theater, visual art, music, dance, and popular culture; essays and reviews of books, articles, and theories related to evolution and evolutionary psychology; [...]
Archive of posts filed under the technology category.
Automatons: Watching the historical human imagination mechanically mirror human functions
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 [...]
FYI: Babbage Analytical Engine designs to be digitised
The Science Museum in London has agreed to help by digitising the mathematician’s original plans. Eventually the images will be used to create a full working model of the Analytical Engine. Conceived in the late 1830s, it foreshadowed the modern computer revolution by more than a century. Babbage’s many notepads and sketch books are currently held in the [...]
Leonardo Review: September Reviews Posted
Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, Brandon Ballengée Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope, Editors Reviewed by Mike Leggett The Milemete Treatise and Companion Secretum Secretorum: Iconography, Audience, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England by Libby Karlinger Escobedo Reviewed by Rob Harle The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. [...]
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 [...]
Recently published: Multiple Discovery article
Multiple discovery is the technical concept used to explain the difficulty in assigning independent priority when two or more scientists or inventors give expression to a similar theory, form, model, or invention. My updated article on this subject was recently published in the edition of the Encyclopedia of Creativity. Please email me for a pdf of the article.
July 2011 Leonardo Reviews Posted
July 2011 Arnheim for Film and Media Studies by Scott Higgins, Editor Reviewed by Ian Verstegen ArtScience: A Journey Through Creativity – permanent exhibition and Travelling the Silk Road exhibition Reviewed by Stella Veciana Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work by Nigel Cross Reviewed by Dene Grigar East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition [...]
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
