Stefaan Van Ryssen | Leonardo

Stefaan Van Ryssen

Passionately interested in the interstitials between art, science, philosophy and socio-economic processes, he has recently been exploring the concept of "beauty" in math and the similarity or difference between processes of innovation in business, art, and academia.

Jan Delvinlaan 115
900 Gent, Belgium
Email: stefaan.vanryssen@gmail.com

Journal Articles

Leonardo Reviews

Plants, Patents and the Historian: (Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering

April 2004
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La planète hyper: De la pensée linéaire à la pensée en arabesque

April 2006
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The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. 112 pp., illus. col. ISBN: 0-520-25023-0

April 2008
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Cognition et Création, Explorations Cognitives des Processus de Conception

April 2004
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Eating Architecture

June 2006
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Gods in the Bazaar by Kajri Jain. Duke Univ. Press, Durham and London, 2007. 448 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-3906-9; 978-0-8223-3926-7

June 2008
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Step Across The Border

June 2004
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Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

June 2006
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Ohne Schnur: Kunst und Drahtlose Kommunikation Edited by Katja Kwastek. Revolver Archiv fuer Aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt/Main and Cuxhaven Kunstverein, Cuxhaven, Germany, 2004. 228 pp., illus. ISBN: 3-86588-025-8

June 2008
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Digital Dragon, High-Technology Enterprises in China

June 2004
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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms by Neil C. Jones and Pavel A. Pevzner. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2004. 434 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-10106-8.

October 2006
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Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae by Michael E. Veal. Wesleyan Univ. Press, Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A., 2007. 350 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8195-6571-7; 0-8195-6572-5

June 2008
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A History of Russian Music by Francis Maes. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2002. Trans. from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans. 441 pp., illus. Trade. $45.00. ISBN: 0-520-21815-9

February 2003
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Hop on Pop, The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

June 2004
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Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical Recording by Colin Symes. Wesleyan Univ. Press, Middletown, CT, U.S.A., 2004. 340 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-8195-6721-3.

October 2006
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Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry by Leo Beranek. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 256 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-02629-1

February 2009
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Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts by James S. Ackerman. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2002. 328 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-01186-7

April 2003
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Absurd Summer

August 2004
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Salmela, Architect by Thomas Fisher; preface by David Salmela. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2005. 184 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4257-5.

October 2006
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Metatron by Richard Pinhas. Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A., 2007. 2 CDs. Cuneiform Rune 228/229. Distributor's web site: 〈www.cuneiformrecords.com/

April 2009
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Extrasensory Perceptions by Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A., 2002. Audio CD CCGNESP01-2

June 2003
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A Culture of Fact: England, 1550–1720

October 2004
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Pond by Tod Dockstader and David Lee Myers. ReR Megacorp, Thornton Heath, 2004. Audio CD, ReR TDDM1 LC-02677, UPC No. 752725019620.

October 2006
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Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific by Heidi Carolyn Feldman. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT. U.S.A., 2006. 328 pp., illus. b/w. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8195-6814-4

April 2009
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Writings by Vilém Flusser. Edited and with an introduction by Andreas Ströhl. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. and London, U.K., 2002. 256 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-8166-3564-1

June 2003
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Anecdotal Theory

October 2004
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Prostranstvennaja Musica (Spatial Music) by Bulat Galeyev. Editor FAN Publishers, Kazan, Russia, 2004. 159 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 5-9690-001-9

February 2007
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CTRL[SPACE], Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother

August 2003
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Prints. Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures 1987–2001

February 2005
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The Flower Shop by Leonard Koren. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2005. 112 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 1-933330-00-7

February 2007
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Hans Danuser: Frost

August 2003
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Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism by Paul Youngquist. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2003. 264 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-3979-5; ISBN: 0-8166-3980-9

April 2005
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The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary by William Playfair. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2005 (1801). 204 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-521-85554-3

April 2007
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North America

August 2003
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Les Défis Du Cybermonde

June 2005
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Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures edited by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, U.S.A., 2005. 304 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8195-6516-4; ISBN: 0-8195-6517-2

April 2007
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./Swank

October 2003
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Had Gadya: The Only Kid. Facsimile of El Lissitzky's Edition of 1919

June 2005
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Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture edited by Michael D. Ayers. Peter Lang, New York, U.S.A., 2006. 282 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-8204-7861-x

June 2007
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and The Culture of Listening in America 1900–1933

October 2003
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Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art

August 2005
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Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture edited by Michael D. Ayers. Peter Lang, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2006. 282 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8204-7861-6

August 2007
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Brochure: Art Lyrique Et Art NuméRique, A Propos D'une Scenographie Virtuelle Interactive De Norma Debellini. Actes De La Jounée D'études Du 17 Aoüt 2001.

October 2003
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Global IT Outsourcing: Software Development Across Borders

October 2005
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The King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter and the Magic of Geometry by Siobhan Roberts. Walker Co, New York, 2006. 416 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-8027-1499-4

October 2007
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Sonic Acts: The Art of Programming

February 2004
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Audio CD: Electrotherapy

October 2005
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Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Valerie Kivelson. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A., 2006. 312 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8014-4409-8; ISBN: 978-0-8014-7253-4

October 2007
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Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness

February 2004
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Festivals: Dutch Electronic Arts Festival'04 (Deaf'04): Affective Turbulence: The Art Of Open Systems

October 2005
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Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording by Tim J. Anderson. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2006. 280 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4517-5; 0-8166-4518-3

February 2008

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