Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 The Revolution is Hear! Sound Art, the Everyday and Aural Awareness This thesis presents a body of practical and theoretical work, which interprets sound art as a means of encouraging aural awareness in an everyday context. Through a methodological feedback loop of artistic practice and theoretical reflection, strategies for the aestheticisation of everyday aural experience [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Trans-action: An Actor-network Approach to Interactivity in the Visual Arts In mapping the generative effects of interactive artworks, this dissertation delineates interactivity according to its distributive actions, cognition and embodiment. These distributive effects are explained in terms of Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The dissertation begins with an examination of historical notions of participation and interaction in [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Embodied Composition: Treatment and Meaning of Physical Object in Experimental Music and Sound Art This thesis is a theoretical examination of musical and artistic works and practices where physical object other than musical instrument is used in the production of musical meaning. This subject is explored within the frame of contemporary music, experimental music and [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Neocybernetic Art or Affect and Conversation in the Animal and the Machine The investigations into the existence of an art based on second order cybernetics are not explicitly directed to systems art neither to cybernetic art proper, artistic manifestations that since the 60’s would be most likely associated with kinetic objects, video feedback sculptures and, [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 I Mirabilia: Taking Care of the Emotional Life of Hospitalized Children I Mirabilia (“The Wonders”) are a family of three interactive dolls for children who spend a long period of time in hospital, due to terminal illnesses or periodic therapies. Drawing on interviews and observations in a children’s hospital, three dolls were designed to help [...]

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012 Poetics of the Interface: Creating Works of Art That Engage in Self-Reflection This thesis addresses the value of employing noise in the formulation of interfaces that engage in self-reflection. The articulation of the interfaces’ formalist devices (message and noise) can generate paradoxical patterns that when enacted by the observer promote experiences of alterity in the [...]

Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A History of the Future by Toni Sant Intellect, Bristol and Chicago, 2011,184 pp., Trade: £24.95/$50.00 paperback, ISBN: 9781841503714. Reviewed by Maria Chatzichristodoulou Review text: LEA-Review-Chatzichristodoulou.pdf

We are rolling out the papers of the ISEA2011 Istanbul conference proceedings. The reviewed, selected and finalized papers will appear as PDFs on the Leonardo Electronic Almanac and will be collated as a LEA special publication issue on Amazon. ISEA2011 Istanbul Conference Proceedings, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 18 Issue 4 (forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-906897-12-3 ISSN: 1071-4391 Senior Editor: Lanfranco Aceti Editor: [...]

LEA Volume 18 Issue 3 Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies, Irini Papadimitriou Editors: Jonathan Munro and Özden Şahin ISBN: 978-1-906897-18-5 ISSN: 1071-4391 Full article is available for download as a pdf here. Vol 18 Issue 3 of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is published on line as a free PDF but will also be rolled out as Amazon Print on [...]

LEA Volume 18 Issue 3 Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies, Irini Papadimitriou Editors: Jonathan Munro and Özden Şahin ISBN: 978-1-906897-18-5 ISSN: 1071-4391 Reference: Charissa N. Terranova, “The Gestalt of Street Team: Guerilla Tactics, GIFs, and the Museum,” eds. Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies and Irini Papadimitriou, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Touch and Go) 18, no. 3 (2012): 236-239. The Gestalt of [...]