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.
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.
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.
Live from Mars Historical Opinion by by Eduardo Kac Eduardo Kac reflects on the landing of the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft and how this event brought telepresence to the masses.
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’ …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …