Leonardo Reviews
September 2008
Black Rhythms of Peru, Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
by Heidi Carolyn Feldman,
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Biomasa
by Planeta Imaginario
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Bug Guitar Computer
by Steve MacLean
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Charles Ives Reconsidered
by Gayle Sherwood Magee
Reviewed by Katharina Blassnigg
Cigar Smoke
by Esther Lamneck
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
by Akira Mizuta Lippit
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Ginger Leigh & the Hallucinations
by Ginger Leigh
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
by Lara Kriegel
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng
Metatron
by Richard Pinhas
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The Most Of Now
by Nikola Kodjabashia
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Namesake Caution
by Time of Orchids
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The Parasite
by Michel Serres
Reviewed by Anthony Enns
Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective
by Lyle Massey
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play
by Jennifer De Vere Brody
Reviewed by Margarete Jahrmann
The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Secret Carnival Workers: Paul Haines
by Stuart Broomer, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Sexy Inc.: Our Children Under Influence. A Critical Look at the Phenomenon of Hypersexualization
by Sophie Bissonnete 2007
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
The Sugar Curtain
by Camila Guzmán Urzúa, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Two Regimes of Madness. Gilles Deleuze. Texts and Interviews 1975-1995
by David Lapoujade, Editor. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina, Translators
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
What is Free to a Good Home?
by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
by Erhard Bahr
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
August 2008
Adrienne Klein: Radiant Logic
Holocenter - The Center for Holographic Art
Reviewed by Susan Gamble
From Betamax to Blockbuster : Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
by Joshua M. Greenberg
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui and Jannis Kallinikos
Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan
by Philip Monk
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Educating Artists For the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture
by Mel Alexenberg, Editor
Reviewed by Jack Ox
Face Food, The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes
by Christopher D. Salyers
Reviewed by George Shortess
La Jetée, Ciné-Roman
by Chris Marker
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Notes on the Underground, New Edition: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
by Rosalind Williams
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Philosophies of Nature After Schelling
by Iain Hamilton Grant
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Post Impressions: A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals
by Hollis Taylor
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W Winnicott
by Carol Mavor
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry
by Leo Beranek
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Sónar. 15th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art
June 19 -21, 2008
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science & Technology
The Dichotomy of Reality
by Loren Means, Editor; Rob Harle, Guest Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou
July 2008
21 Up South Africa: Mandela's Children
by Angus Gibson, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
by Joshua M. Greenberg
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
The Counter-Creationism Handbook
by Mark Isaak
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Dreamland
by Beat Circus
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Do Communists Have Better Sex?
by André Meier, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Documentary Time: Film and Phenomenology
by Malin Wahlberg
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Excellent Cadavers
by Marco Turco
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
The Face of Evil
by David Tosco
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (The Movie Edition)
by Edwin A. Abbott, with Thomas Banchoff and the Filmmakers of Flatland
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World
by Tim Mehigan, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou
The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne
by Susan Vogel, Director
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Radiant City
by Gary Burns and Jim Brown, Directors
Reviewed by Anthony Enns
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
by Deborah Kapchan
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
June 2008
Ace Records
by David Stubbs
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
by Nadya Zimmerman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The Cult of Statistical Significance
by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema
by Pavle Levi
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Disonancias: Joint Research Project between International Artists and R&D&I Units Located in the Basque Country
by Grupo XABIDE, Víctor Iriarte, Editors
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui
Eternal Youth
by AL and AL
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Forever Lenin
by Xavier Villetard
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
How Putin Came to Power
by Tania Rakhmanova
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Madame Tutli-Putli
by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943
by Annmarie Adams
Reviewed by Leslie Topp
The Scar of Visibility — Medical Performances and Contemporary Art
by Petra Kuppers
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools
by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, Ollie Oviedo (eds.).
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Time | Motion
by Jonathan Shaw
Reviewed by Devabrata Paramanik
Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970
by Larry Busbea
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng
May 2008
Circles:
Science, Sense and Symbol
by
Nicholas Wade
Reviewed
by Amy Ione
Das
audio-visuelle Zeitalter
by Jürgen Claus, editor
Reviewed by Frieder Nake
Energy War
by Shuchen Tan, Ijsbrand Van Veelen, and Rudi Boon, Directors
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
The
Exploit: A Theory of Networks
by
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker
Reviewed by Geoff Cox
Great
Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
by Jesper Wachtmeister
and
Once
Upon a Time . . . Rome, Open City
by Marie Genin and Serge July
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
How
Round Is Your Circle? Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet
by John Bryant
& Chris Sangwin
Reviewed by Phil Dyke
Imperial
White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire
by Radhika Mohanram
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Issues
in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwich, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Mechanisms: New
Media and the Forensic Imagination
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Platform
for Art
by Alex Cole, with Introduction by Tasmin Dillon
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Science
for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism
by Daniel S. Greenberg
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Shigeru
Ban: an Architect for Emergencies
by Michel Quinejure, Director
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed
Small
Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools
by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder,
and Ollie Oviedo, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Urban
Imaginaries: Locating the Modern
City
by Alev Cinar and Thomas
Bender
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño
Mojica
April 2008
ARTSCIENCE:
Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
by David Edwards
Reviewed by David G. Stork
Colin
St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects
by Roger Stonehouse
Reviewed by Boris Jardine
The
Cry at Zero
by Andrew Joron
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Database
Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow
by Victoria Vesna
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
Eileen
Gray, Designer and Architect
by Jorg Bundschuh, Director
Reviewed by Florence Martellini
Enhanced
Visualization: Making Space for 3-D Images
by Barry G. Blundell
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
From
Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
by Stanley Matthews
Reviewed by Boris Jardine
The
Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne
by Susan Vogel
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Great
Expectations
by Jesper Watchmeister, Director
Reviewed by Florence Martellini
Mechanisms.
New Media and the Forensic Imagination
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
The
Prize of the Pole
by Staffen Julen, Director
Review by John F. Barber
Shadya
by Roy Jacob Westler
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
The
Sixth Side of the Pentagon
by Chris Marker and Francois Reichenbach
and
The
Embassy
by Chris Marker
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
State
Of The World: Our Urban Future 2007
by Worldwatch Institute
Reviewed by Mit Mitropoulos
Teeth
by Alice Arnold
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Traces
of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe Fuller
by Ann Cooper Albright
Martha Blassnigg
The
Two Lives of Eva
by Esther Hoffenberg
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed
We
Interrupt Your Program
Mills College Art Museum
Reviewed by Meredith Tromble
When
Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness
by Tobi Zausner
Reviewed by Rob Harle
YLEM
Journal: Artists Using Science & Technology
Jules Verne & Beyond
by Loren Means, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou (London)
March 2008
A Culture of Improvement: Technology and
the Western Millennium
by Robert Friedel
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Disco
3000
by Sun Ra
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Jameson on Jameson: Conversations
on Cultural Marxism
by Ian Buchanan, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
NEWS
by Lukas Simonis & Takayuki Kawabata
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Partisan
Canons
by Anna Brzyski, Editor
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng
Photo
Souvenir
by Paul Cohen & Martijn van Haalen
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Reema,
There and Back. A Family Divided by Two Worlds
by Paul Émile d’Entremont, Director;
Jacques Turgeon, Producer
Reviewed by Dr Alex Rotas
Shadows
of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
by Tony Robbin
Reviewed by Jennifer Ferng
Shimmering
Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
by Jennifer Deger
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
"The
Story So Far..."...Oh Really"
by Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
YLEM Journal:
Artists Using Science and Technology
by Loren Means, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle
February 2008
Body
Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations
by Jonathan Auerbach
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Designing
Design
by Kenya Hara
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Screams
and Silence
by Black Paintings
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Take
Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Curator
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Tourists
of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground
Zero
by Maria Sturken
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Townsville
by The Necks
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
(Un)common
Ground: Creative Encounters across Sectors and Disciplines
by Cathy Brickwood, Bronac Ferran, David
Garcia and Tim Putnam, Editors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
January 2008
Adorno
in America
by David Jenemann
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Artificial
Consciousness
by Antonio Chella and Riccardo Manzotti,
Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Empire
Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest
by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Reviewed by Rick Mitchell
Gerard
Caris: Pentagonismus/Pentagonism
by Gregor Jansen and Peter Weibel, Editors
and
Gerard
Caris: Art and Mathematics. New Reflections on the Pentagon.
/ Kunst und Mathematik. Neue Reflexionen
ueber das Fuenfeck
by Gerard Caris and Theresia Kiefer
and
Tekeningen
/ Drawings
S M A Cahiers
by Gerard Caris
and
Pentagonisme
/ Pentagonism.
S M A Cahiers
by Gerard Caris
Reviewed by Rob Harle
The
Hidden Sense. Synesthesia in Art and Science
by Cretien van Campen
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Noisefold
by Noisefold
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
On
The Rumba River
by Jacques Sarasin
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Prisoners
of Beckett
by Michka Saäl, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Re: Skin
by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, Editors
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Supercomputing
07
November 10-16, 2007
Reviewed by Jack Ox
Too
Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis
by Elizabeth C. Mansfield
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
December 2007
Beyond
the Soundtrack. Representing Music in Cinema
by Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard
Leppert, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Char
Davies’ Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality
by Laurie McRobert
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Going
Aerial. Air, Art, Architecture
by Monika Bakke, Editor
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou
Listen
How They Talk — Chamber Music 1998-2001
by Hilda Paredes
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Processing:
A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers
by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
String
Quartet No.2
by Morton Feldman
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Unnatural
Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
by Arthur C. Danto
Reviewed by George Gessert
November 2007
The
Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
by Michael Barrier
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Archive
Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890
by Robin Kelsey
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
The
Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
by Carla Yanni
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Becoming
13
by Victoria King
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Building
a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair
by Lisa D. Schrenk
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century
America
by Charmaine A. Nelson
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Do You
Believe in Water?: Three Journeys in Cyprus and the Mediterranean
by Lia Lapithi Shukuroglou
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
Elements of UML 2.0 Style
by Scott W. Ambler
Reviewed by Kasey Asberry
Laws of
Seeing
by Wolgang Metzger, Translated by Lothar
Spillman, Steven Lehar, Mimsey Stromeyer, and Michael Wertheimer
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Musical
Instruments of Nepal
by Ram Prasad Kadel
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Poison
Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
by Christine L. Marran
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Science
as A Spiritual Practice
by Imants Baru_s
Reviewed by Rob Harle
WAL-TOWN:
The Film
by Sergeo Kirby, Writer and Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
October 2007
The
Democratic Revolutionary Handbook
First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, New York,
2005
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
The
Exiles of Marcel Duchamp
by T. J. Demos
Reviewed by Kieran Lyons
Eye Contact:
Photographing Indigenous Australians
by Jane
Lydon
Reviewed by Brook Andrew
Felix
Werder: The Tempest
by Felix Werder
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Forever
by Heddy Honigmann
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Freedom
of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
by Kembrew McLeod
Reviewed by Hugo de Rijke
Looking
for an Icon
by Hans Pool & Maaik Krijgsman, Directors
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Pop
Art Book
by Corinne Miller, Nadine Monem and Margaret
Nugent, Editors
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Residual
Media
by Charles R. Acland, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Tambogrande:
Mangos, Murder, Mining
by Ernesto Cabellos & Stephanie Boyd
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui
Thousand
Year Dreaming / floating world
by Annea Lockwood
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
T:BA:07
Sponsored by The Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
(Un)common
Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines
by Cathy Brickwood, Bronac Ferran, David
Garcia, Tim Putnam, Editors
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui
September 2007
Art for
a House of Mathematics
by Anna Campbell Bliss
Reviewed by Rob Harle
The Big
Fish. Consciousness as Structure, Body and Space
by Anna Bonshek
Reviewed by Rob Harle
The
Blind Spot
by Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Camouflage
and Art: Design for Deception in World War 2
by Henrietta Goodden
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Can’t
Do It In Europe
by Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz and Anna Klara
Åhrén
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Cartographic
Cinema
by Tom Conley
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Collectivism
after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945
by Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Descartes.
The Life and Times of a Genius
by Anthony C. Grayling
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.
For
by The Claudia Quintet
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
For
by The Claudia Quintet
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Gods
in the Bazaar
by Kajri Jain
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Henry
Cow: Concerts
by Henry Cow
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Image in French Philosophy
by Temenuga Trifonova
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
I Am a Strange
Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Reviewed by Richard Kade
Much
Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron
by Hans Camenzind
Reviewed by John F. Barber
Museum
Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations
by Ivan Karp, Corrine Kratz, Lynn Szwaja
and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Editors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Stots
by Lukas Simonis
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Surviving
Death/Alive Why?
by Bill Brovold and Larval
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Topography of Chance
by Stewart Lee, Curator
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Tribulation
99: Alien Anomalies under America
by Craig Baldwin
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Tube
Mouth Bow String
by Nick Didkovsky
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Vali
Myers: A Memoir
by Gianni Menichetti
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
August 2007
Bullshit
by Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian,
Directors
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Cartographic
Cinema
by Tom Conley
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Clarence
John Laughlin: Prophet Without Honor
by A.J. Meek
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
Deep
Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical
Means
by Zielinski, Siegfried; Gloria Custance,
Translator; Timothy Druckrey, Foreword
Reviewed by: Sean Cubitt
Design
Anarchy
by Kalle Lasn
Review by John F. Barber
Digital
Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art,
and Installation
by Steve Dixon
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Dub: Soundscapes
and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
by Michael E. Veal
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Face of Evil
by David Tosco, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Forever
by Heddy Honigann, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
From Technological
to Virtual Art
by Frank Popper
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Imagining
MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
by William J. Mitchell
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou
Jules
Kirschenbaum: The Need to Dream of Some Transcendent Meaning
by Thomas Worthen
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Mind
as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science
by Margaret Boden
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Native
Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960
by Bill Anthes
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Notes
on Marie Menken
by Martina Kudlacek, Director; John Zorn, Music
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Ohne
Schnur: Kunst und Drahtlose Kommunikation
by Katja Kwastek, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Our
Daily Bread
by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Director
and
The
Gleaners and I
by Agnes Varda, Director
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Shigeru
Ban: An Architect for Emergencies
by Michel Quinejure
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
July 2007
All
Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950
by Robert E. Kohler
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Design
Anarchy
by Kalle Lasn
Review by John F. Barber
From
Technological to Virtual Art
by Frank Popper
Reviewed by Paul Hertz
Imagining
MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
by William J. Mitchell
Reviewed by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou
MediaArtHistories
by Oliver Grau, Editor
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Notes
on Marie Menken
by Martina Kudlácek, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Out
of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation
by Peter Hallward
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Problematizing
Global Knowledge: The Theory, Culture, & Society Encyclopedia Project
by Mike Featherstone et al, Editors
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
Science,
Culture, and Modern State Formation
by Patrick Carroll
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara
Sweet
Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation
by David Huron
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
La
Biennale di Venezia
52th International Art Exhibition
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Visual
Thought: The depictive space of perception (Advances in Consciousness
Research: 67)
by Liliana Albertazzi, Editor
Reviewed by Amy Ione
June 2007
After
the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros. Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon
by David O’Brien
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
The
Atlas of Climate Change. Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge
by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Beautiful/Ugly:
African and Diaspora Aesthetics
by Sara Nuttall, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Cyberspaces
of Everyday Life
Mark Nunes
Review by John F. Barber
El
medio es el diseño audiovisual
by Jorge La Ferla, Editor
Reviewed by José-Carlos Mariátegui
The
Future of Electronic Literature
Maryland Institute for Technology
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
Japan's
Peace Constitution
by John Junkerman, Director; Yamagami Tetsujiro,
Producer; Soul Flower Union, Music
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Organized
Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions
by Ned Rossiter
Reviewed by Geoff Cox
Other
People’s Pictures
A film by Lorca Shepperd & Cabot Philbrick
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
PopModernism.
Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday
by Juan A. Suárez
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Russia
in Transition: I to IV
by Sergei Loznitsa
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Spaces
Speak, Are You Listening? — Experiencing Aural Architecture
by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter
Reviewed by Florence Martellini
Surviving
Death/Alive Why?
by Larval
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Tin Men
by Archie Green
Reviewed by Rob Harle
The
Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft
by Ann Friedber
Reviewed by Ian Verstegen
May 2007
The
Animation of Lists And the Archytan Transpositions
by Warren Burt
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Art:
Key Contemporary Thinkers
by Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery,
Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Constant,
Avant le Départ
by Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele
Reviewed by Anthony Enns
Full
Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
by Takayuki TatsumI
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Ghosthunter:
A Journey through Haunted France
by Simon Marsden
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
Making
Easy Listening, Material Culture and Postwar American Recording
by Tim J. Anderson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Material Image: Art and the Real in Film
by Brigitte Peucker
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Musimathics.
The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Vol. 1
by Gareth Loy
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Renzo
Piano: Work in Progress
by Marc Petitjean, Director
Reviewed by Nameera Ahmed
Salvador
Allende
by Patricio Guzmán, Director
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Scientific
Pluralism (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
by Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino,
and C. Kenneth Waters, Editors
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Sensorium:
Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
by Caroline A. Jones, Editor
Reviewed by Craig Hilton
Too Beautiful
to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis
by Elizabeth C. Mansfield
Reviewed by Amy Ione
YLEM Journal:
Artists Using Science and Technology
by Loren Means, Editor; Gregg Rickman, Guest
Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
April 2007
The Angelmakers
by Astrid Bussink, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Classic
Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism
by Mary E. Davis
Reviewed by Richard Kade
The
Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite
by Ann Finkbeiner
Review by John F. Barber
Pin-Up
Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
by Maria Elena Buszek
Jonathan Zilberg, Ph.D.
Salvador
Allende
by Patricio Guzmán, Director
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
The
Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air
by Daniell Cornell, Editor
Amy Ione
They
Chose China
by Shuibo Wang
Jonathan Zilberg, Ph.D.
Water
Sound Images: The Creative Music of the Universe
by Alexander Lauterwasser; trans. by Gunter
Maria Zielke [first German edition 2002]
Reviewed by Rob Harle
March 2007
At
a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
by Annmarie Chandler and Norrie Neumark
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Bernie
Boston: American Photojournalist
by Therese Mulligan
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Bullshit
by Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian,
Directors
Reviewed by Aparna Sharma
Cinematic
Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health
by Kirsten Ostherr
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.
Cutting
Code: Software and Sociality
by Adrian Mackenzie
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Designing
Interactions
by Bill Moggridge; foreword by Gillian Crampton-Smith
Reviewed by Dene Grigar
King of
Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry
by Siobhan Roberts
Reviewed by Paul Brown
The Laws
of Simplicity
by John Maeda
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Mapping
Perception
by Giles Lane and Katrina Jungnickel, Editors,
Andrew Kotting
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
The New
Typography
by Jan Tschichold; translated from
German by Ruari McLean
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Optical
Illusions: The Science of Visual Perception
by Al Seckel
Reviewed by George Shortess
Play
Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
by T. L. Taylor
Review by John F. Barber
Pretend
We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
by Annalee Newitz
Reviewed by Nick Cronbach
The
Secret Life of Babies Part 1 & 2
by Bernard George, Director
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Tester:
Nodes at Work
The Fundacíon Rodríguez, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
February 2007
Cartographies
of Tsardom. The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth Century Russia
by Valerie Kivelson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Our
Daily Bread
by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Inside
Out
by Zohreh Shayesteh
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
John
Cage Performs James Joyce
by Takahiko Iimura
and
Fluxus
Replayed
by Takahiko Iimura
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
King
of Infinite Space. Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
by Siobhan Roberts
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Playing
the News
by Jeff Plunkett and Jigar Mehta, Directors
Reviewed by Amy Ione
SC06: International
Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Reviewed by Jack Ox
Seeing
High & Low. Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture
by Patricia Johnston, Editor
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Technology
Matters: Questions to Live With
by David Nye
Reviewed by Michael Punt
Transitio_mx.
Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video
by Amanda Lemus, Adriana Casas, and Lilia
Pérez, Eds.
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
January 2007
Hats
of Jerusalem
by Nati Adler
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
RES Magazine:
March/April 2006 issue
Sue Apfelbaum and Jesse Ashlock, Editors
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Aesthetic
Computing
by Paul Fishwick, Editor
Reviewed by Michael Kelly
Drawing
Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression
by Patrick Maynard
Reviewed by Amy Ione
YLEM
Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology
by Loren Means, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Descartes:
The Life and Times of a Genius
by A.C. Grayling
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Screen
Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World
Robert Pepperell and Michael Punt, Editors
Reviewed by Anthony Enn
December 2006
2005
Daejeon FAST: Future of Art, Science and Technology
by Jiho Lee
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Camouflage
by Neil Leach
Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold
Chats
Perchés – The Case of the Grinning Cat
by Chris Marker
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Cybersounds,
Essays on Virtual Music Culture
by Michael D. Ayers, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Daejeon
Museum of Art
by Lee Won-kon, Shin Bo-seul et al
Partially reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Future of Digital Art: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness
by Mel Alexenberg
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Memory
Like Water
by Matt Rogalsky
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Out of
Place: Memories of Edward Said
by Makoto Sato
Reviewed byJonathan Zilberg
Piewacket
by Puppetina
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Shadows
of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
by Tony Robbin
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Spectres
of the Spectrum
by Craig Baldwin
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Tape
Works
by Anla Courtis
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
November 2006
Among
the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
by Jonathan Holt Shannon
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
The
Book of Portraiture: A Novel
by Steve Tomasula
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
On
Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
by Eric Santner
Reviewed by Eugene Thacker
The
Dreamers of Arnhem Land
by Christopher Walker
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Hollywood
Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema
by Pat Brereton
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
Legend of Vernon McAlister
by Richard Leo Johnson
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Live at
the Stain Bar DVD Adventure
by Quartet of Happiness
Reviewed by Kathryn Adams
Modern
Chinese Artists, A Biographical Dictionary
by Michael Sullivan
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Museum
Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
by David Carrier
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga
The Net
by Lutz Dammbeck
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
October 2006
Art,
Time, and Technology
by Charlie Gere
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Ars Electronica
2006: Simplicity - The Art Of Complexity
Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 5,
2006
Reviewed by Maia Engeli
Creative
3-D Display and Interaction Interfaces: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach
by Barry G. Blundell and Adam J. Schwarz
Reviewed by Paul Hertz
Mediamatic
Off-Line.
Vol 11,
No. 1 and No. 2
by Paul Groot, Editor
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Music
and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
by Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, Editors
Reviewed by Alise Piebalga
New Media
Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories
by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss, Editors
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
Pop L.A.:
Art and the City in the 1960s
by Cécile Whiting
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
<Robodies>
by Logos Publiek Domein
and
Emmanuel
Vigeland
by Nikolai Galen
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Sentinel,
The Design, Fabrication, and Installation of the Monumental Sculpture
by Albert Paley at Rochester Institute of Technology
by James Yarrington, Editor
Reviewed by George Shortess
The
Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower
by Fredrik Gertten, Producer and director
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
Surrealism
and Cinema
by Michael Richardson
Reviewed by Allan Graubard
Two Minds:
Artists and Architects in Collaboration
by Jes Fernie, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Visual
Media and the Humanities
by Kecia Driver McBride, Editors
Reviewed by John F. Barber
The Way
of Taiko
by Heidi Varian; Foreword by Seichi Tanaka
and
JRock,
Ink: A Concise Report on 40 of the Biggest Rock Acts in Japan
by Josephine Yun; Yana Moskaluk, illustrator
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
With
Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
by LeRoy Ashby
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
September 2006
Curating
Immateriality: The Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems
by Joasia Krysa, Editor
Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg
Echo
and Reverb, Fabricating Space in Popular Music 1900-1960
by Peter Doyle
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Daughters
of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
by Justine Larbalestier, Editor
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
Control
and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiberoptics
by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.
Napolean
David: The Image Enthroned
by Patric Jean, Director; Frédéric
Cerdal, Narration
Reviewed by Amy Ione
Genes
in Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
by Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter,
Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle
EXIT:
The Right to Die
by Fernand Melgar
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
webAffairs
by Show-n-tell
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
River
of Time
by Robert Fox
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
24 Realities
Per Second
by Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor, Directors
Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg
August 2006
Chats
Perchés — The Case of the Grinning Cat
by Chris Marker
Mike Leggett
Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 10th Annual Conference
St Anne’s College, Oxford, June 23rd
to 26th 2006
Reviewed by Robert Pepperell
Creative
3-D Display and Interaction Interfaces: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach
by Barry G. Blundell and Adam J. Schwarz
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Physics
Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
by Julien Clinton Sprott
Reviewed by Dr Barry Blundell
Radio
Banana
by Aki Peltonen
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
SONAR
2006
13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Mutimedia
Art
Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann
Special
Delivery
by Tunsi
and
Group Therapy
by Elephant Tribe, featuring Talman Greed
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
Winter
Music, Composing the North
by John Luther Adams
Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen
The
World in my Mind, My Mind in the World
by Igor Aleksander
Reviewed by Mike Leggett
July 2006
Artists
in Labs: Processes Of Inquiry
by Jill Scott, Editor
Reviewed by Craig Hilton
Bourdieu
and the Journalistic Field
by Rodney Benson and Erik Neveu, Editors
Reviewed by Fred Andersson
Designing
Type
by Karen Cheng
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Documentary
Film: Science and Art in Close Encounter within an Intercultural Dialogue
Film Festival Beeld voor Beeld, 17th edition
Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg
Foundation
of Computational Visualistics
by Jörg R. J. Schirra
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Klimt,
Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka: Vienna 1900
by Karen Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm,
Editor
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
Lake
Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
by Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell; Foreword
by Loren Coleman
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher
The
New Medium of Print: Material Communication in the Internet Age
by Frank Cost
Reviewed by Kathleen Quillian
Media
Art Net 2 Key Topics / Medien Kunst Netz 2 Thematische Schwerpunkte
by Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels, Editors
/ Hrsg.
Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño M.
Minidoka
Revisited: The Paintings of Roger Shimomura
by William Lew, Editor
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
The
Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future
by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra, Editors
Reviewed by Rob Harle
Swiss
Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style 1920-1965
by Richard Hollis
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens
To
Be Seen
by Alice Arnold, Director
Reviewed by Rob Harle (Australia)
Wireless
Writing in the Age of Marconi
by Timothy C. Campbell
Reviewed by Jan Baetens
June 2006
The
Aesthetics of Disengagement : Contemporary Art and Depression
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