LEA Volume 19 Issue 1 Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8 ISSN: 1071-4391 The Variable Museum: Off-Topic Art + Interview, Statement, Artwork by John Bell Augmented reality provides the opportunity to find a balance point between personalized digital content and the shared context of a group of people [...]

LEA Volume 19 Issue 1 Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8 ISSN: 1071-4391 Site, Non-site, and Website Introduction by Richard Rinehart In the 1960’s, artist Robert Smithson articulated the strategy of representation summarized by “site vs. non-site” whereby certain artworks were simultaneously abstract and representational and could be [...]

LEA Volume 19 Issue 1 Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8 ISSN: 1071-4391 Not Here, Not There: An Analysis Of An International Collaboration To Survey Augmented Reality Art Editorial by Lanfranco Aceti Every published volume has a reason, a history, a conceptual underpinning as well as an aim [...]

ISEA2011 Uncontainable, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 18 Issue 5 ISBN: 978-1-906897-19-2 ISSN: 1071-4391 Number of pages: 409 Senior Editor and Artistic Director: Lanfranco Aceti Editor and Curator: Özden Şahin Associate Editor: Andrea Ackerman Art Director: Deniz Cem Önduygu Graphic Designer: Zeynep Özel The print issue of ISEA2011 Uncontainable is available on Amazon. ISEA2011 Istanbul Uncontainable exhibition catalog (a collaborative effort [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 The Phenomenological Impact of Interface on the Analysis of Digital Music and Sonic Art The experience of an artwork is just as important as any other constituent element of the work, particularly in contemporary digital music and sonic art. While theorists analyze a piece to find out “how it works,” the actual experience of the [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Structuring Somnolence: Sleep Science Technology as a Medium for Drawing with the Body at Rest In December 2010, three volunteers participated in a two-week sleep study conducted by artist Lisa Carrie Goldberg and administered by a certified sleep technologist. It was through these nocturnal events that the process of employing the body and the mind [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Music to Be Seen: The Diatope (1978) by Iannis Xenakis This thesis revisits the automated audiovisual installation the Diatope by Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) as a groundbreaking precursor to new media art. Although Xenakis’s pioneering cross-disciplinary and multimedia constructions and compositions have long been recognized in the fields of architecture and musicology, they have been largely [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Scorescapes: On Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness Scorescapes investigates how sound mediates our relationship to the environment, and how contemporary multidisciplinary art practices can articulate this relationship. It joins my own artistic practice with a theoretical analysis of the field, highlighting how relationships to the environment drawn through sound are profoundly bound up with technology. [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Time and Space Compressio​n in Cyberspace Art The term “time-space compression” was coined by David Harvey [1] in his book, “The Condition of Postmodernity” (1989). It refers to speed-up in the pace of life, while abolishing traditional spatial barriers. The industrial revolution introduced the railroad and the telegraph line, paving the way for future changes [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Re-negotiating Social Space: Public Art Installations and Interactive Experience Digital media technologies are becoming increasingly and extensively integrated into our way of living. We communicate, inform and entertain ourselves through media technologies in disparate spaces. When digital technology is integrated into our everyday environment, the border between media interfaces and physical environments is being blurred. [...]