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. [...]
Archive of posts tagged science
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 [...]
Now Available: MISH MASH: Issue 1 of the all-new Leonardo Electronic Almanac
MISH MASH, Issue 1 of the all-new Leonardo Electronic Almanac is now available as a free PDF. With this re-launch the editors are working on implementing availability on a wide range of digital platforms. The issues are published online but will also be rolled out on a series of e-publishing platforms ranging from Print on [...]
New Book: IMAGERY IN THE 21st CENTURY
Edited by Oliver GRAU with Thomas VEIGL Cambridge/Mass., MIT Press, 2011 ISBN-10: 0-262-01572-2 Scholars from science, art and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis. With contributions a.o. by Marie-Luise ANGERER, Olaf BREIDBACH, Adrian CHEOK, Wendy CHUN, Sean CUBITT, James ELKINS, Oliver GRAU, Stefan HEIDENREICH, Eduardo [...]
Exhibition: The Magic and Myth of Alchemy
The Lloyd Library and Museum proudly announces a new online exhibit: The Magic and Myth of Alchemy (http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/alchemy/index.html), created in honor of the International Year of Chemistry, an event celebrated by chemists and chemistry associations throughout 2011. While the Lloyd does not hold the most ancient treatises from Asia or the Middle East, the Lloyd holds a wealth of materials from [...]
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 [...]
CFP: Art and Knowledge
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Art and Knowledge.” Special issue of Fragmenta, Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome The interdisciplinary journal “Fragmenta” welcomes contributions to the theme Art and Knowledge in Italy and the European Republic of Letters, 1500-1750. The volume explores the ways in which knowledge was shaped and shared among painters, architects, collectors [...]
