Rob Harle | Leonardo

Robert Maddox-Harle

His art practice includes: drawing, sculpture and recently, digital images—both for the web and print. Writing work includes: reviews, academic essays and experimental poetry and short fiction—some co-authored with computer programs. These are published in numerous journals, magazines and books. His formal academic studies comprise: Philosophy of Mind, Comparative Religion, Architecture and Psychotherapy.

Robert's main concern has been to explore and document the radical changes that technology is bringing about. He has coined the term technoMetamorphosis to describe this.

Artwork and selected writings are available from his website: https://www.maddoxharle.com. Email:robert@maddoxharle.com

Online Reviews

Victor Plahte Tschudi
March 2023
Joanna Ebenstein, Editor; Richard Faulk, Translator
October 2022
by Jacqueline A. Stagner, David S.-K. Ting, Editors
February 2021
Willem Elias, Eric Bolle, Daan Rau, Edith Doove, Marc Ruyters, Koen Van Damme, and Sebastian Morra
December 2020
by Jacqueline A. Stagner, David S-K. Ting, Editors
June 2020
May 2020
by Arthur I. Miller
February 2020
by Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski, Editors
November 2019
Susan Laxton
September 2019
June 2019
by Emelie Chhangur and Philip Monk, Editors
May 2019
April 2019
February 2019
August 2018
December 2017
by Oliver Götze and Lieselotte Kugler, Editors
October 2017
by Basarab Nicolescu
February 2017
edited by John C. Lamoreaux
December 2016

Journal Articles

Leonardo Reviews

Wenda Gu: Art From Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium

February 2005
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The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2005. 340 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-19530-5

June 2007
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How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation by Agnès Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer; translated by Susan Emanuel. MIT Press, Cambridge, London, U.S.A., U.K., 2010. 232 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-262-01452-6

June 2011
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The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture

April 2015
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Sustaining Resources for Tomorrow

April 2021
Leonardo Reviews

Hyle International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry

February 2005
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YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology edited by Loren Means. YLEM, San Francisco, CA, May-August 2006. Vol. 26, Nos 6 and 8, 27 pp., illus. SSN: 1057–2031. Journal web site: 〈www.ylem.org

October 2007
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Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art by Laura U. Marks. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, U.K., 2010. 392 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01421-2

October 2011
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The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels

October 2015
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Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives

April 2021
Leonardo Reviews

Activity-Centered Design: An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Systems

June 2005
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Water Sound Images: The Creative Music of the Universe by Alexander Lauterwasser. Gunter Maria Zielke, trans. MACROmedia Publishing, Newmarket, NH, 2006. 176 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-1-888138-09-2

February 2008
Leonardo Reviews

Leo Villareal edited by the San José Museum of Art. Foreword by Susan Krane; introduction by Steven B. Johnson. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2010. 192 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-3-7757-2656-6

October 2011
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An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics

February 2016
Reviews

Jean De Groote: In de stilte van de dingen (In the Quiet of Things)

June 2021
Leonardo Reviews

Symmetry Comes of Age: The Role of Pattern in Culture

August 2005
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Cutting Code: Software And Sociality by Adrian Mackenzie. Peter Lang, New York, 2006. 216 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-8204-7823-7

February 2008
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FASTWÜRMS DONKY@NINJA@WITCH: A Living Retrospective by Philip Monk. The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2011. 112 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-921972-60-0

April 2012
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The Storm of Creativity

October 2016
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Memories Are Made of This: How Memory Works in Humans and Animals

October 2005
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Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers edited by Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery. Berg Publishers, Oxford and New York, 2007. 213 pp. Paper. ISBN: 1-84520-319-1

February 2008
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Zones of Re-membering: Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness by Don Gifford; edited by D.E. Morse. Rodopi Amsterdam, New York, NY, 2011. 157 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-90-420-3259-0

April 2012
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Sonic Time Machines: Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity

April 2017
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Dream Bridges—Traumbrücken

April 2006
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Science as a Spiritual Practice by Imants Barušs, Imprint Academic, Exeter, U.K., 2007. 155 pp. Paper. ISBN: 1845400747

June 2008
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Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life by Justin E.H. Smith. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2011. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-14178-7; ISBN: 978-1-400-83872-1

June 2012
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The Hidden Third

October 2017
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The Art of Setting Stones and Other Writings from the Japanese Garden

June 2006
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Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2007. 736 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-18262-1

August 2008
Leonardo Reviews

The Techno-Human Condition by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2011. 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-01569-1

June 2012
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Divine Golden Ingenious: The Golden Ratio as a Theory of Everything?

June 2018
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Symmetry 2000: Parts 1 and 2

June 2006
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When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness by Tobi Zausner. Harmony Books, New York, 2007. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0-307-23808-5

October 2008
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A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field: Bridging the Humanities-Neuroscience Divide edited by Barbara Maria Stafford, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, U.S.A., and London, U.K., 2011. 368 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-77055-0

June 2012
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Patrick Tresset: Human Traits and the Art of Creative Machines

October 2018
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Impossible Nature: The Art of Jon McCormack by Jon McCormack, Jon Bird, Alan Dorin and Annemarie Jonson. Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, 2004. 136 pp., illus. ISBN: 1-920805-08-7; ISBN (DVD): 1-920805-09-5.

October 2006
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YLEM Journal: Artists Using Science and Technology Loren Means, Editor. San Francisco, U.S.A. May–June 2007. Vol. 27 No. 6: “Autonomous Robots That Paint.” 16 pp., illus. b/w. Journal website: 〈www.ylem.org

October 2008
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Open Access by Peter Suber. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 230 pp. ISBN: 978-0- 262-51763-8

April 2013
Leonardo Reviews

David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews

February 2019
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TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach by Shivendra S. Panwar, Shiwen Mao, Jeong-dong Ryoo and Yihan Li. University of Cambridge Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2004. 284 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 052160124X.

October 2006
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Flatland: The Movie Edition by Edwin A. Abbott, with Thomas Banchoff and the Filmmakers of Flatland (Book and DVD). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2008. 168 pp., illus. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-691-13657-8

February 2009
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Computers and Creativity edited by Jon McCormack and Mark d'Inverno. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 430 pp., illus. Trade, ebook. ISBN: 978-3-642-31726-2; ISBN: 978-3-642-31727-9

October 2013
Reviews

Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils

April 2019
Leonardo Reviews

Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art by Mignon Nixon. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2005. 312 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-14089-6.

October 2006
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Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2008, 296 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-691-12587-9

April 2009
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To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet by Linda Weintraub. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 384 pp. illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-520-27361-0; ISBN: 978-0-520-27362-7

October 2013
Reviews

In the Grand Tradition: The Enduring Art of Elbert Weinberg

June 2019
Leonardo Reviews

Monte Grande—What Is Life? directed by Franz Reichle; featuring Francisco Varela and H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama. First Run/Icarus Films, New York, 2004. VHS, 80 mins., col.

February 2007
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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software by Christopher M. Kelty. Duke University Press, Durham and London, U.S.A./U.K., 2008. 400 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8223-0-8223; 0-8223-0-8223

June 2009
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The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, Revised Edition by Linda Dalrymple Henderson. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2013. 740 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-58244-5

February 2014
Leonardo Reviews

The Long Now: Public Studio

February 2020
Leonardo Reviews

The Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of Culture

April 2004
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Earth-Mapping: Artists Reshaping Landscape by Edward S. Casey. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2005. 256 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4332-6; ISBN: 0-8166-4333-4

February 2007
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And While I Have Been Lying Here Perfectly Still: The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files by Philip Monk. Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada, 2009. 136 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-92-197253-2

June 2010
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Surrealist Ghostliness by Katharine Conley. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A., 2013. 320 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-8032-2659-3

June 2014
Leonardo Reviews

99 Variations on a Proof

February 2020
Leonardo Reviews

Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of The Earth

June 2004
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Sex, Drugs, Einstein, Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence by Clifford A. Pickover. Smart Publications, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A., 2005. 318 pp., illus. ISBN: 1-890572-17-9

February 2007
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Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability by Bill Tomlinson. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, U.K. 210 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-262-01393-2

April 2011
Leonardo Reviews

Molecular Aesthetics

October 2014
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Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction

April 2020
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The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain

August 2004
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Mademoiselle and the Doctor by Janine Hosking. First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A., 2003. Video, 90 min, color. Distributor's web site: www.frif.com

April 2007
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Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology by André Nusselder. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2009.176 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-262-51300-5

February 2011
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New Guide to Poetry and Poetics

February 2015
Leonardo Reviews

Dia-Logos: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice

June 2020
Leonardo Reviews

Science, Not Art: Ten Scientists' DIARIES

October 2004
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Genes in Development: Re-Reading the Molecular Paradigm edited by Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2006. 378 pp., illus. ISBN: 0-8223-3667-7

June 2007
Leonardo Reviews

D-BA2: Digital-Botanic Architecture II: eTrees, Digital Nature, BioArchitecture by Dennis Dollens. Lumen Inc./Sites Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., 2009. 72 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-930829-70-4

February 2011
Leonardo Reviews

Literary Gaming

April 2015
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Vital Forms: Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life

October 2020

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