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Contemporary Opinion ArtScience: The Essential Connection Robert Root-Bernstein introduces a column that will be to explore the essential connection of art and science in the past, present and future, with the aim of stimulating broader discussion of, and participation in, this essential connection… Historical Opinion The Fourth World: The Promises and Dangers of the World [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Sundar Sarukkai Beauty in the Beast Sundar Sarukkai asks: In this era of the growing presence of technology in art, a trend well exemplified by digital art, how do we find deeper terms of engagement between art and technology? Historical Opinion by David Carrier Visual Theory and “Leonardo” David Carrier looks at [...]

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 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

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 [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary: The Global Artists’ Diaspora and the LambdaRail Jack Ox looks at how the LambdaRail can help to develop the paths for communication, while also forging methods to reunite dispersed communities Leonardo October 2006, Vol. 39, No. 5: 389–389 Jack Ox is a Leonardo International Co-Editor, Research Assistant Professor in the College of Fine Arts at [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion by Ernest Edmonds Research on and from within Creative Practice Ernest Edmonds discusses the rich and exciting space in which more and more artists and collaborative teams are conducting practice-based research, particularly in the areas of interest to Leonardo. Originally published in Leonardo August 2007, Vol. 40, No. 4: 318–318   Historical Opinion by [...]

New Leonardo Thinks Postings

Contemporary Opinion THE SPACE OPTION By Arthur Woods Arthur Woods concludes that the Space Option represents the most optimistic scenario for insuring humanity’s long-term sustainability and ultimate survival at this critical moment in history.   Historical Opinion: LEONARDO’S UNITY OF ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC IDEAS By Aleksandra Manczak Aleksandra Mańczak concludes that the unity of Leonardo [...]

Is Art-Science Hogwash ?: A Rebuttal to Jean-Marc Levy Leblond

La science n’est pas l’art, Jean Marc Levy-Leblond, Hermann Editeurs, Paris 2010 ISBN 978-2705669409. [The publication is in French.] I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the age long debate about the connections between the arts and sciences. In this book, really a diatribe in pamphlet form, Levy-Leblond attacks the emerging Art-Science movement [...]