Global Warning Symposium 2010
Artists, Scientists and Environmental Activism
Art, Science and the Environment
From the Leonardo and LMJ Archives
Leading up to the Global Warning Symposium, we will be publishing abstracts from papers that have been published in Leonardo and LMJ over the years on art, science and the environment. Many of these papers are available for free to current Leonardo and LMJ subscribers. Papers published before 2005 are available through the JSTOR digital archive.
"Notes on Eco-Logic: Environmental Artwork, Visual Philosophy and Global Perspective," by Agnes Denes
ABSTRACT: The author, a visual artist, discusses briefly her ecological and philosophical concerns and demonstrates, using excerpts from texts describing some of her large-scale projects, how this new art form can have a profound impact on human values, consciousness and our collective destiny. [This paper was originally published in Leonardo Vol. 26, No. 5, 1993, and is currently available through the JSTOR digital archive.]
"Atmospherics/Weather Works: A Spatialized Meteorological Data Sonification Project," by Andrea Polli
ABSTRACT: Atmospherics/Weather Works is a performance, installation and distributed software project for the sonification of storms and other meteorological events, generated directly from data produced by a highly detailed and physically accurate simulation of the weather. [This paper was originally published in Leonardo Vol. 38, No. 1, 2005, and is currently available to Leonardo and LMJ subscribers through the MIT Press web site.]
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Other Events
Next LASER: July 12, 2010, University of San Francisco
Attention Bay Area readers! Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), July 12, 2010, at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Feature presentations include Linda Gass, "Can Art Change Our Water Consciousness?"; Peter Foucault, "Systems and Interactivity in Drawing" and Cindy Stokes, "Dynamic Form" Find out more
Publications
Leonardo 43:3 Now Available
Inside Leonardo 43:3: Cinderella on the Moon: Now anyone can fill Neil Armstrong's glass slipper, er, moon boot with Danqing Shi's installation/game. "Blobitectural" preservation: Lawrence Bird and Guillaume LaBelle on documenting and conserving Greg Lynn's embryonic architecture. Fresh eyes on Op Art: Squinting at spatial frequency and adjusting the apparent contrast bring a new appreciation of Bridget Riley's Fall. A language labyrinth: A textual maze melds the physical and the virtual in building_space_with_words. Find out more
Leonardo Reviews Introduces the Leonardo Reviews Quarterly
Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Leonardo Reviews publishes all reviews received from the panel monthly on the Leonardo Reviews web site. In addition, four times a year a selection of reviews is printed in Leonardo print journal and now in the Leonardo Reviews Quarterly (L|R|Q) which will be publishing an even larger selection as a printable PDF together with introductory material and overview essays. Find out more
Opportunities and Community Announcements
Looking for: Visual Artists Who Have Had Previous Nursing/Caring Background
I am a South African artist doing post-graduate research at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). I am exploring whether a previous nursing or caring experience could alter the perception of visual art. Find out more
