Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by Michel Meulders; edited and translated by Laurence Garey, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010, 264 pp., illus. 32 b/w. Trade, $27.95/£19.95, ISBN: 978-0-262-01448-9. A recurring topic among those interested in art, science, and technology is the value of transdisciplinary approaches. In my view, those who gravitate to this area [...]
Archive of posts tagged Amy Ione
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings Reviewed by Amy Ione
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings brings together key documents related to institutional critique, a conceptual art movement that has raised questions about the workings of art institution (museums, galleries) since the 1960s. Alexander Alberro (one of the editors of this volume) calls it a “gesture of negation” (p. 3) that was adopted by [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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.
Review: East Bay Open Studios 2011 (EBOS 2011)
by Amy Ione EBOS 2011 is presented by ProArts Gallery in Oakland, CA. This review was prepared for Leonardo Reviews . After reviewing the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference [1], held in Berkeley in 2009, two thoughts kept reverberating in my mind as time passed. First, I thought about the many reviews I have written [...]
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 [...]
FYI: Synesthésie: vues de l’intérieur” now online
Now online: “Synesthésie: vues de l’intérieur” ( synesthesia: Views form inside) by Hervé-Pierre Lambert
Art by Amy Ione now online
I just put up a new web page for my art. Please visit art-by-amyione.com
