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NASA ART; 50 Years of Exploration

NASA ART; 50 Years of Exploration http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v64/i8/p42_s1?isAuthorized=no Tom D. Crouch, NASA Art: 50 years of Exploration, Physics Today. August 2011, p 42 Has any one on this list seen the exhibition NASA Art: 50 years of Exploration ?. It was at the Washington DC National Air and Space Museum and is travelling to Las Cruces, [...]

Leonardo Thinks Posting

Historical Opinion by Jacques Mandelbrojt Intersenses Jacques Mandelbrojt looks at the challenges and constraints an artist faces while using one work of art to produce a corresponding one in another medium can force the artist to expand his or her creative vocabulary.

Leonardo Thinks Posting

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. 


WHAT DOES LEONARDO THINK ?

Every week LEONARDO THINKS posts in Leonardo Electronic Almanac editorial advocacy statements relevant to the art science technology field http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/browse/C52/ The latest editorial is by Laura Cinti on The Sensorial Invisibility Of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Through Bio Art And Plant Neurobiology If you are interested in submiting an editorial for publication consideration please send [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Patricia Olynyk Minding the Gap: Risk Capital and the Myth of Two Cultures Patricia Olynyk argues that if one accepts the premise of “one culture” – of a shared overall world view, then engaging risk capital in the academy could not only prompt a re-evaluation of our target investments but support the [...]

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, [...]

SPACE CULTURE: The Commercialisation of Space Flight will lead to a New Renaissance ?

We are at an interesting time in the history of human exploration of space. The governmental space budgets in the USA and Europe are stagnant and there are large uncertainties about next steps. At the same time other countries such as India, China and Brazil have an increasing interest. Space Applications, such as satellite communications [...]

Third Culture? : From the Arts to the Sciences and Back Again in Shanghai

I will be giving this talk on August 25 in Shanghai at the SIVA Shanghai Institute of Visual Art http://www.siva.edu.cn/renda/node6813/english/index.html I would welcome feedback and thoughts:   Third Culture? : From the Arts to the Sciences and Back Again   Roger F Malina Version 1.1 Aug 10 2011 current word count 2100 words   I [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Historical Opinion by Fred Forest Against Official Contemporary Art, for an Art of the Present Fred Forest argues that it remains for artists, confronted with the immense field opened for them by new technologies, to resist the seduction of facile effects.   Contemporary Opinion by István Hargittai Something Has Doubled: [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion Art for the Solar Age by Jürgen Claus Jürgen Claus proposes that one aim for the near future would be to build prototype solar houses that incorporate solar energy in a convincing visual and aesthetic expression.   
Historical Opinion 
A Fuller Bridge by István Hargittai István Hargittai proposes that the discovery of the [...]