LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Historical Opinion by Sheila Pinkel Sheila Pinkel proposes that a synthetic art education prepares students to negotiate, question and comment on the challenges of our complex world. The Necessity for Synthetic Art Education At the present time specialization in the arts, humanities and sciences at the university level allows students to focus intensely on their […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Contemporary Opinion by F. David Peat F. David Peat explores the benefits of gentle action and creative suspension using examples that show how community dynamics that have unfolded naturally out of the dynamics of the system itself have allowed people to successfully change their lives. Gentle Action and Creative Suspension Some time ago I was […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Historical Opinion by Giorgio Careri Giorgio Careri argues that artists and scientists both search for invisible but ordered worlds. Art and Science in Search of Non-Visible Worlds Science is mental talk . . . Painting is mental talk . . . Leonardo da Vinci, 1500 A.D. A 1983 Editorial of this journal stressed among the […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Contemporary Opinion by David Carrier David Carrier calls for the Leonardo Network to open a discussion on the future of art history in the context of new discoveries of psychology and the cognitive Sciences. The Future of Art History in the Context of New Discoveries of Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences “If it is now […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Historical Article by Stephen Wilson Stephen Wilson proposes that the Industrial Research Artist is a new player whose work would combine art and industrial research … Industrial Research Artist: A Proposal I. Introduction: The Absence of Artists at the Frontier of Culture Scientific and technological research continuously pushes our cultural frontiers outward. This research shapes […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Contemporary Article by Ellen K.Levy Ellen Levy briefly traces the ongoing influence of the book On Growth and Form (1917) by Scottish biologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson… Cultural Evolution This editorial briefly traces the ongoing influence of the book On Growth and Form (1917) by Scottish biologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson [1]. The book has been praised […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Contemporary Article by Maximilian Schich, Isabel Meirelles and Albert-László Barabási Maximilian Schich, Isabel Meirelles and Albert-László Barabási discuss how the study of networks and network visualizations has expanded research options in science, art and the humanities. Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks In the last decade, the science of complex networks [1] experienced a remarkable […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Historical Opinion by by Frieder Nake Frieder Nake looks at how information and the computer have opened up the discourse on aesthetics, reality, and the nature of art. Art in the Time of the Artificial In February 1965 when the first exhibit of computer art opened at the study gallery at the University of Stuttgart, […]

LEONARDO THINKS 1968 – 2011 Contemporary Article by Robert Root-Bernstein, Todd Siler, Adam Brown, Kenneth Snelson Forthcoming in Leonardo Journal, MIT Press 2011 ArtScience: Integrative Collaboration To Create a Sustainable Future Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, intermedia, transmedia, and multimedia are becoming ever more prominent within the sciences, technology, and arts. These new ways of conceiving knowledge and its products creates opportunities […]