Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011 Mixed Reality Art and the Graphical User Interface This hybrid (practice/thesis) examines the phenomenon of mixed-reality art through the form of the graphical user interface (GUI) as an emergent site of creative practice. Utilising three methodologies – the documentation of practice; a conceptual framing; and a series of personal experimental artworks – I explore the [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011 Genetic Art and Recombinants: Introns Non-code and the Proto-animate Condition This thesis examines how a contemporary biological model namely genetic recombinant DNA and technologies can be interpreted to develop new creative art-based recombinant processes and media. This question is investigated through a focus on practice-led research, on materiality and novel methodologies. The materiality centres on [...]

Arts Humanities and Complex Networks Reminder: Deadline March 16, 2012 We are pleased to invite you to Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks – 3rd Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2012 taking place at Northwestern University near Chicago, IL on the shores of Lake Michigan, USA on Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Call for Papers: from both scientists and artists and humanities [...]

LEA New Media Exhibition Re-Drawing Boundaries Focus On: Kate Pullinger Curator: Jeremy Hight Senior Curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul Kate Pullinger writes electronic collaborative literature using a combination of text, sound, images, and games.  These interactive episodes create digital fictions requiring user action to drive the story forward. LEA New Media Exhibition presents the new forms of digital storytelling: [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011 Potentials of Data Sonification in Visual Art: Sonifying the compArt Database Data sonification, the presentation of data using sound, is gaining more and more importance in various academic fields and disciplines. However, most sonifications so far base on quantitative data, often from the natural sciences. Therefore, this paper tries to find out which sonification techniques [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011 Realtime and Accurate Musical Control of Expression in Speech Synthesis In the early days of speech synthesis research, understanding voice production has attracted the attention of scientists with the goal of producing intelligible speech. Later, the need to produce more natural voices led researchers to use prerecorded voice databases, containing speech units, reassembled by a [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011 Intentional Systems and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hermeneutic Network: Agency and Intentionality in Expressive Computational Systems Human interaction with technical artifacts is often mediated by treating them as if they are alive. We exclaim “my car doesn’t want to start,” or “my computer loves to crash.” Of increasing cultural importance are software systems designed explicitly [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2011 The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Plant Neurobiology The thesis, titled ‘The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry through Bio Art and Plant Neurobiology’, is an interdisciplinary art practice-related research that focuses on the complexities in recognising plant behaviour. It explores the contradistinction between scientific studies that reveal [...]

Not Here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with The Samek Art Gallery and with Kasa Gallery announces a special issue titled: Not Here Not There. This issue arises out of the territory between two cultural streams. In the 1960’s, artist Robert Smithson articulated the strategy of representation summarized by ‘site vs. non-site’ whereby certain artworks [...]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Historical Opinion by Gianni Romano Gianni Romano examines why the idea of “house” and the concept of “habitation” seem somewhat inadequate in an epoch in which many are turning toward cyberspace… The House as a Place to Share In a recent special issue of the popular architecture magazine Abitare devoted to Milan, two expensive shops [...]