Reviews

  • Unitxt Leonardo Review
    September 28, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    Unitxt by Alva Noto Rasta Noton, Chemnitz, Germany, 2008 CD, RASTER095CD, 19.00 euros Distributor’s website: Raster-Norton Reviewed by Hannah Drayson University of Plymouth, UK hannah.drayson@plymouth.ac.uk Unitxt is made from sonic artefacts harvested from digital files: buzzes,...
  • XLIIIrd AICA CONGRESS Leonardo Review
    November 16, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    XLIIIrd AICA CONGRESS The Relations between Art and Science:  Complicity, Criticality, Knowledge AICA 1949 - 2009 Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland 26-31 October, 2009 Congress website: Aica Congress Reviewed by Ellen K. Levy Artist and Visiting Scholar NYU levy@nyc.rr.com Many wo...
  • Svetlana About Svetlana Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    Svetlana About Svetlana by Lana Parshina, Director Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, 2008 DVD, 44 minutes, color Sales, $375 Distributor’s website: Icarus Films Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Saginaw Valley State University mosher@svsu.edu I was a kid when (then-) Svetlana Alilu...
  • Secret Museums Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    Secret Museums: In Search of Hidden Erotic Art by Peter Woditsch Icarus Films, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2009 DVD, 77 mins. col. Sales, $398 Distributor’s website:  Icarus Films Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia) harle@dodo.com.au This film is full of intrigue and adventure. It is as...
  • A Road to Mecca Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Muhammad Asad by Georg Misch, Director Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, 2009 DVD, 92 mins., $US 440 (Institutional). Distributor: Icarus Films Reviewed by Catalin Brylla University of Newport cbrylla@yahoo.com A Road to Mecca follows the path taken by j...
  • Playing with Words Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice by Cathy Lane, Editor CRiSAP, London, 2008 205 pp., illus. 90 b/w. Trade, £12.99 ISBN: 978-0-9558273-3-4. Reviewed by John F. Barber Digital Technology and Culture Washington State University Vancouver jfbarber@eaze.net Wh...
  • The Inventor of Love & Other Writings Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    The Inventor of Love & Other Writings by Gherasim Luca; translated by Julian and Laura Semilian Black Widow Press, Boston, MA, 143 pp. Paper $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-9818088-7-1. Reviewed by Allan Graubard 442 W, 57th Street, NY, NY 10019 agraubard@yahoo.com ‘‘…from one temple to t...
  • Imagining Science Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    Imagining Science: Art, Science and Social Change by Sean Caulfield and Timothy Caulfield, Editors University of Alberta Press, Alberta, CAN, 2008 148 pp. Paper, $34.95 ISBN: 978-0-88864-508-1. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher Saginaw Valley State University mosher@svsu.edu B...
  • Mind and Nature Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics by Herman Weyl; edited and with introduction by Peter Pesic Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2009 272 pp., illus. 43 b/w.  Trade, $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-691-13545-8. Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño ...
  • And While I Have Been Lying Here Perfectly Still Leonardo Review
    December 29, 2009
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    Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
    And While I Have Been Lying Here Perfectly Still: The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files by Philip Monk Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada, 2009 136 pp., illus. 111 col., 2 b/w. Paper, $20 ISBN: 978-0-921972-53-2. Reviewed by Rob Harle Australia harle@dodo.com.au This delight...