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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

CFP: The first International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture

“New Imaging: transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media”. Takes place on 5 – 6  November at Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney, NSW 2011. Deadline for Abstracts:  June 25,  2010 A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as [...]

Gerhard Richter reveiwed posted

My Leonardo review of Gerhard Richter by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Editor is  at  http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/dec2009/gerhardrichter.ione.php