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  • Art and the Brain: What Does the Evidence Tell Us? by Amy Ione
    March 22, 2012
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2012 Contemporary Opinion by Amy Ione Amy Ione argues that neurological studies are of more value when they do not try to “solve” art but rather are a part of how we enlarge our understanding of the creative process. Art and the Brain: What Does the Evidence Tell Us...
  • Creativity + Complexity = Win Win by David Burraston
    February 3, 2012
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    LEONARDO THINKS 1968 - 2012 Contemporary Opinion by David Burraston David Burraston proposes that creativity and complexity, as a combined endeavour with methodological rigour, has the potential to make our current and precarious game of life a win-win situation. Creativity + Complexity =...
  • Rómulo de Carvalho and António Gedeão, Scientist-Artist by M. Root-Bernstein
    January 8, 2012
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    LEONARDO THINKS 1968 - 2012 Contemporary Opinion by Meredith Root-Bernstein Meredith Root-Bernstein introduces the influential Portuguese teacher and historian of science Rómulo de Carvalho (1906-1997) who wrote under the pseudonym António Gedeão. Rómulo de Carvalho and António Gedeão, Scie...
  • THE HOUSE AS A PLACE TO SHARE by Gianni Romano
    December 5, 2011
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    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 ...
  • INTERSENSES by Jacques Mandelbrojt
    November 20, 2011
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    LEONARDO THINKS 1968 - 2011 Historical Opinion by Jacques Mandelbrojt 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… Int...
  • SOMETHING ABOUT ART by Paulina Borsook
    November 11, 2011
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    LEONARDO THINKS 1968 - 2011 Historical Opinion by by Paulina Borsook Paulina Borsook asks how and if written works created for the Internet differ from works created for print. Something about Art I write fiction as well as nonfiction, and was alarmed when I found out that one of my pu...