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Leonardo
Vol. 37, Issue 5 (2004)

Leonardo is a print journal, published five times a year. Leonardo is edited by Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and published by the MIT Press.

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Editorial

Art and Design: Cures for Society's Growing Perceptual Blindness?
by Julio Bermúdez

After Midnight

Kid Friendly, Open Source
by Linda Wallace

The Leonardo Gallery

MOISTURE
Introduction by Laura Burns

Work by SE Barnet; Adam Belt; Deena Capparelli; Kahty Chenoweth; Bernard Perroud; Mark Tsang; Claude Willey

Artists' Statements

Telematic Tubs against Terror: Bathing in the Immersive Interactive Media of the Post-Cyborg Age
by Steve Mann

The MRI Scanner: An Ideal Instrument for Portraiture
by Marilène Oliver

Artist's Article

Wave Field Art
by Douglas D. Peden

ABSTRACT: The author presents the basics of his painting style and the development of its underlying geometry, which he calls GridField Geometry.

Special Section: Artmedia VIII Selected Symposium Papers

Toward a Diffracted Literature
by Jean-Pierre Balpe

ABSTRACT: Over a relatively short period of its history, literature has become closely linked to the book; but literature preceded the book, and today its creation, due to its digital form, is more and more linked to screens or to sound output interfaces. Because the screen is not a material object but a virtual one, it can take as many forms as its users wish. This article attempts, first by means of an excerpted short story by the author and then in a theoretical discussion, to demonstrate and analyze some of the implications of the use of the screen in the field of e-literature.

General Article

Camera Lucida: A Three-Dimensional Sonochemical Observatory
by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand

ABSTRACT: Camera Lucida is an interactive "sonic observatory" that directly converts sound waves into light by employing a phenomenon called sonoluminescence. The project was conceived both as an artwork and as a musical instrument that allows its player to see and shape sounds as they move through space.

Historical Perspective

Rosetta Stone? Hockney, Falco and the Sources of "Opticality" in Lorenzo Lotto's Husband and Wife
by Christopher Tyler

ABSTRACT: In his book Secret Knowledge, David Hockney proposes that the "optical quality" of Flemish art arose around 1420, because artists such as van Eyck then began to use optical devices for accurate projection of subject images onto the canvas. Although Hockney describes Lotto's Man and Wife as the "Rosetta Stone" of his argument, the author's analysis reveals that its perspective structure is incompatible with the logic of local optical projection. Regions that should be geometrically coherent in an optical projection display pronounced distortions, while regions that should be incoherent show no such distortions. Such detailed evidence, as well as the inability of optical projection to capture the effect of windblown garments, is inconsistent with Hockney's claim.

Abstract

Art and Science: Analogy and Anachronism in Modern Thinking
by Consuelo Vallejo Delgado

Leonardo Reviews

Reviews by Wilfred Niels Arnold, Kasey Asberry, Roy R. Behrens, Chris Cobb, Sean Cubitt, Dennis Dollens, Maia Engeli, Enzo Ferrara, George Gessert, Dene Grigar, Rob Harle, Coral Houtman, Amy Ione, Rick Mitchell, Mike Mosher, Robert Pepperell, George Shortess, David Surman, Eugene Thacker, Stefaan Van Ryssen, Ian Verstegen

LeonardoVol. 37, Issue 5 (2004)