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 …

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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 …

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Symbiotic Art and Science Workshop

Colleagues- I will be attending the Symbiotic Art and Science workshop (see summary below). If you have relevant writings I will happily bring them to the attention of the participants Roger An Investigation into the Intersection of Life Sciences and the Arts jointly sponsored by The National Science Foundation / The National Endowment for the …

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ART SCIENCE QUOTES Compiled by Amy Ione, Roger Malina, and Robert Root-Bernstein

List as of Aug 29 2010 We are compiling quotes from (preferably living) famous scientists and research engineers that articulate the case why scientists collaborations with the arts and humanities are beneficial to science and engineering. Send contributions to Amy Ione at amy.ione.2 [at] gmail [dot] com. The list is HERE.

Wellcome’s evauation of their SciArt Funding program (1996-2006)

From Amy Ione: The Wellcome Trust has a summary and a full report of their SciArt funding program at their page:  http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Publications/Reports/Public-engagement/Sciart-evaluation-report/index.htm FYI, the program ran from 1996-2006. Briefly, they funded 124 projects, considered the program valuable, said it had more impact on the arts than the sciences.  They have since moved the ArtSci program …

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