Historical Opinion by Paulina Borsook Something about Art Paulina Borsook asks how and if written works created for the Internet differ from works created for print.
Archive of posts filed under the Art Science Radar category.
American Association for Advancement of Science Expert Labs
the American Association for the Advancement of Science has an interesting initiative for mobilising expertise using social networks http://expertlabs.org/ this is a different approach from the successful Innocentive Model https://www.innocentive.com/innovation-solutions/non-profit-innovation here is expertlabs http://expertlabs.org/about.html AAAS founded Expert Labs, under the direction of technology guru and blogger Anil Dash, with the goal of helping the government [...]
NSF Art Science workshop at Maryland Institute College of Art Nov 14 and 15 2011
This Monday Tuesday I am participating in the NSF workshop on setting up a Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design (NSEAD) this is the fifth in a series of NSF workshops exploring art-science relationships a number of useful supporting documents are available at http://www.viz.tamu.edu/faculty/lurleen/main/NSEAD/ roger The National Science Foundation Computer, Information Systems and Engineering [...]
New Leonardo Thinks Posting
Historical Opinion by Frieder Nake Art in the Time of the Artificial Frieder Nake looks at how information and the computer have opened up the discourse on aesthetics, reality, and the nature of art.
New Leonardo Thinks Postings
Contemporary Opinion by Laura Cinti The Sensorial Invisibility Of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Through Bio Art And Plant Neurobiology Rather than reconcile the two understandings of plants discussed in the essay with a broader spectrum of experiences, my findings show that we return to the ‘Aristotelian’ position of plants. Although bio art as an ‘interaction’ [...]
SPACE CULTURE SEEN FROM SOUTH AFRICA
I just arrived in Capetown ,South Africa where 2000 space professionals are meeting. There is large african delegation. Of note is that 11 Nigerian scientists and engineers have been elected to the International Academy of Astronautics. Here are some art and space items of interest Space Culture Announcements October 7 2011 Water from Space: Societal, [...]
Free Will, Theory of Mind and the Physics of the City
I recently met physicist Bruno Giorgini (http://www.imera.fr/index.php/en/component/resource/article/2-les-residents/292-bruno-giorgini.html) and artist MariaTheresa Sartori (http://www.imera.fr/index.php/en/component/resource/article/2-les-residents/301-mariateresa-sartori.html) who recently started an art-science residency at IMERA (http://www.imera.fr) . Bruno is one of the founders of a field called the “Physics of the City”.
New Leonardo Thinks Postings
Contemporary Opinion by Michele Emmer Can Ideas and Words Be Useful? Michele Emmer looks at how war and the international police action change names but do not change the reality that that “when a person is killed, all of humanity is killed.” Historical Opinion by David Carrier Art Criticism and the Death of Marxism Looking [...]
New Leonardo Thinks Postings
Historical Opinion by Herbert W. Franke The Latest Developments in Media Art Herbert W. Franke argues that the concepts of originals and “unique works” do not make sense in the age of media art. Contemporary Opinion by Joel Slayton Collaboration as Media Joel Slayton argues that the emphasis on collaboration has changed the cultural production [...]
Top Rated 2010/11 Theses in Art/Science/Technology
\Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology is pleased to announce the top-rated abstracts published in the English-language Leonardo Abstracts Service Databases during the first half of 2011. READ THE FULL ABSTRACTS: http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/ Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS), consisting of the English-language, Spanish-language and French-language LABS databases, is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Masters and [...]