Mish Mash, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, issue 1, 2010 In January 2010 LEA ” Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a member of the Leonardo/ISAST/MIT Press family” will re-launch. Its new format will combine the features of a high-production-value art magazine with the scholarly rigor of an academic journal. Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-editor, intend to produce a well illustrated, […]
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The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is changing
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is changing Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) (San Francisco, USA) is pleased to announce that its 17-year-old online publication Leonardo Electronic Almanac—LEA—will shortly re-launch both online and in print-on-demand. The new Editor in Chief is Dr. Lanfranco Aceti, Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at Sabanci University (Istanbul, […]
Out of Order By Susan Ballard
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Out of Order: Explorations in Digital Materiality Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is, in fact, the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal […]
Artifacts, Technicity and Humanization By Stephen James Thompson
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Artifacts, Technicity and Humanization: Industrial Design and the Problem of Anoetic Technologies This thesis concerns the intellectual heritage and autonomy of West European and American industrial design as a discourse community at a moment when biotechnological developments are challenging the certainty of what it means to be human. Proceeding from the assumption that industrial design […]
Growing Semi-Living Art By Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Growing Semi-Living Art In 1996 Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr coined the term Semi-Livings to describe the living tissue constructs that are grown/constructed out of tissues taken from complex organisms and maintained alive with the aid of technological intervention. The Semi-Livings refers mainly to living tissue constructs that have no biomedical purpose. In the case […]
Becoming Bird By B. Lea Cox
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Becoming Bird: Sound, Image, Movement “Becoming Bird: Sound, Image, Movement” explores how birds encounter the world, how humans perceive birds, and ways in which we as humans might take the point of view of birds, and thereby enter a different consciousness of that world we share with these “other” beings who were living on Earth […]
Glucose By Noah Shibley
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Glucose, wireless chat for local communities As the technologies of electronic communications and entertainment are on the incline, conversely social interaction and community have been on the decline. Particularly on the decline are interactions among people in local communities such as apartment buildings and neighborhoods. The one type of community that is an exception to […]
Towards a Species Songbook By Hollis Taylor
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Towards a Species Songbook: Illuminating the Vocalisations of the Australian Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) Is musicality a capacity Homo sapiens shares with birds? The pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) is suggested for a zoömusicological case study on how birdsong might be like the human animal’s music (whether homologous or analogous). The thesis includes a critical reflection […]
Creating Order in the Ceaseless Flow By Zita Joyce
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 Creating Order in the Ceaseless Flow: The Discursive Constitution of the Radio Spectrum The concept of ‘radio spectrum’ was created to organize the electromagnetic waves used by communicative technologies. It signifies an ordered sequence of radio frequencies and the delineation of blocks of those frequencies for allocation to uses and users. This thesis examines the […]
The Experience of Interactive Art By Elizabeth Muller
Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2008-2009 The Experience of Interactive Art: A Curatorial Study Interactive art exists through the participation of its audience. There is an increasing awareness amongst artists, critics and curators that the audience’s experience is of central importance to the understanding, creation and exhibition of interactive art. Because of its emphasis on experience and participation, as well as […]