Compiled by Amy Ione, Roger Malina and Robert Root-Bernstein (as of Aug 28 2010) We are compiling quotes from (preferably living) famous scientists and research engineers that articulate the case why scientists collaborations with the arts and humanities are beneficial to science and engineering. Send contributions to Amy Ione at amy.ione.2 [at] gmail [dot] com [...]
Archive of posts tagged science
Zero1/Leonardo Symposium Sept 16 & 17: GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism
What does it sound like when influential environmental policy-makers, thinkers, scientists and artists converse in real and exploratory ways? We invite you and your colleagues to join us for GLOBAL WARNING: Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism, San Jose, CA, September 16 & 17, 2010 — a two-day symposium focused on the interchange of ideas among [...]
Old Masters and Modern Science
I do not post as much as I would like to these days, but do feel compelled to note this recent review by Michael Kimmelman in today’s New York Times, titled Old Masters and Modern Science. It looks at an exhibition at the National Gallery in London about the chemistry of painting. According to Kimmelman, [...]
Open Call: DIGITAL’2010: PLANET EARTH
DIGITAL’2010: PLANET EARTH 12th international digital print competition-exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) to be held at the New York Hall of Science Oct.3, 2010 – January 31, 2011 DEADLINE: Aug.16, 2010 Click here for the GUIDELINES <http://www.asci.org/artikel1106.html> with links to: Co-Juror Bios, Online Entry Form, Payment Page] INTRODUCTION Our blue planet, [...]
Review of Lars Becker-Larsen’s The Moving Earth
by Amy Ione Lars Becker-Larsen’s production of The Moving Earth offers a splendid chronicle of the scientific shift brought about through studies of planetary motion during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. The name of the film refers to the work establishing that Earth is a moving planet and the broadly based content tells [...]
New Leonardo Reviews: Posted | June 2010
A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php> by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black
Ann: Leonardo Reviews Quarterly 1.01 | June 2010
Now online here Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the [...]
Leonardo Reviews Posted May 2010
Leonardo Reviews (ISSN: 1559-0429) is pleased to announce the May 2010 postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
Ann: Illuminating the Science: Art and Climate Change
Thursday, April 22 at 3pm + 6:30 pm Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave at 34th Street, New York City Free! First come, first served http://web.gc.cuny.edu/MESTC/events/s10/illuminating-science.html
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 [...]
