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New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Michael Punt Renaming the Future Michael Punt looks at the history and the future of the Leonardo Reviews project. Historical Opinion by Ernst Gombrich 
Art is Long… Ernest Gombrich argues that it takes time for a system of art conventions to crystallize and says we are more likely to achieve a new [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Julianne Pierce Network, Exchange and Dialogue: Media Arts in the Asia Pacific Julianne Pierce examines Media Arts Networks, Exchange and Dialogues in the Asia Pacific Region. Historical Opinion by Nancy Gorglione A Partial View Of A Three-Dimensional World Nancy Gorglione examines holography, three-dimensional (3D) laser photography, and encourages support for ensuring the [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Douglas Vakoch To the Stars, Silently Douglas Vakoch discusses the mission of the SETI Institute and an initiative to produce workshops with Leonardo/ISAST. The mission of SETI is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. Historical Opinion by Roger F. Malina The Cultural Dimension [...]

New Artwork In Space by Takuro Osaka

Colleagues artworks created by artists in outer space are rare enough that i though i would flag to you the new work of Takuro Osaka on the internation space station in orbit roger Beyond代表、筑波大学の逢坂です。宇宙ステーションでの3回目の芸術実験報告です。 下記、大学の URL を参照下さい。 I am glad to inform my 3 rd art experiment at ISS “KIBO”JAXA on 12th~13th of May. Please check [...]

NAS Leonardo DASER June 16 2011 in Washington

D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) June 16, 2011, 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100, Washington, D.C. Photo IDs required Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) is partnering with Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, to present D.C. Art [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Sheila Pinkel Expanding the Mandate Sheila Pinkel asks if the mandate of Leonardo be expanded to explore the intersection between art, science, technology and society. Historical Opinion by Itsuo Sakane Recovering the Wholeness of Art: Information versus Material Itsuo Sakane argues for a balance between the art of synthetic reality, based on [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings: Translation Discussion

The translation discusion is a three part posting with commentaries by Michael Punt, Roger Malina and Martin Zierold Part I: Michael Punt <http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/translation_discussion/> Part II: Roger Malina <http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/translation_discussion1/> Part III: A Commentary by Martin Zierold <http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/translation_discussion2/>

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Contemporary Opinion by Wasim Maziak On the Verge of Avalanche Wasim Maziak argues for the importance of an institutionalized front of scientists and artists for world peace and sustainability.   Historical Opinion by Michele Emmer Visual Mathematics: A New Era? Michele Emmer summarizes the new branch of mathematics that we [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary The Encyclopedia of New Media Arts Louise Poissant Leonardo June 2006, Vol. 39, No. 3: 180–180 Louise Poissant comments on the Dictionary of New Media Arts project,  She notes that it allowed us first to observe the passage from tools and machines to interfaces and then gradually to witness the shift from the instrumental register [...]

“Making Science Intimate” in Book “Science, She Loves Me”

I have just published an essay in the book Science, She Loves Me, Edited by Mary Anne Moser, Foreword by Jay Ingram,Banff Center Press, 2011. In this essay I resumarise my general argument why the work of artists who use instruments to take date for their art making are playing an important role in integrating [...]