Leonardo Reviews provide a resource for artists, scientists,
engineers, scholars and others interested in the contemporary arts.
The scope is intended to be broad. Published work on any art form
and any aspect
of science, technology, philosophy, etc. is suitable for review.
In general, we discourage reviews of catalogs or books about individual
(as opposed
to groups of) living artists unless the work is clearly of general
interest. We encourage reviews of materials in languages other than
English. Reviews
of published material in all media are acceptable (books, journals,
videos, films, software, World Wide Web sites, compact discs, CD-ROMs,
etc.) as
long as the material can be obtained by interested readers.
Leonardo Reviews are published in a number of venues. In general,
all reviews received are published in Leonardo Reviews (LR) and listed
in the website journal LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC (LEA). Unedited reviews
are
posted on the Leonardo World Wide Web Site on the MIT Press server. This
site is accessible over the Internet at http://leonardo.info/.
Selected reviews of general interest may also be published in the print
journals LEONARDO and LEONARDO MUSIC JOURNAL.
LENGTH: All reviews should be under 750 words. Please
try to keep to this limit. However, if you feel that an item is
of such importance that a longer review is warranted, we suggest
you write to the
Leonardo Editorial Office with a proposal for a General Note (up
to 2,500 words). We reserve the right to publish the first 300
words of longer reviews
in Leonardo Digital Reviews, with the full review appearing on
the Leonardo Web Site.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Reviews published in the print journal
LEONARDO can include one illustration. The illustration must be
a glossy, high-contrast, black-and-white print ready for reproduction.
Illustrations are not used on the Leonardo Digital Reviews Web
Site.
FORMAT: Reviews must include a concise summary, audience
info and a critical appraisal of the work. You must include at
the head of the review the following information:
For Print Publications:
Title of item reviewed. If the title is not in English,
please provide a translation.
Author(s) name.
Publisher's name, city/country of publisher, year of
publication.
Number of pages, indicate whether it is illustrated
(if appropriate).
Paper, $ price; Trade (i.e. cloth), $ price.
ISBN (please include ISBN in same order as above for
both paper and trade when available).
Name and address of reviewer, including country and
e-mail address.
EXAMPLE: PLEASE FOLLOW EXACTLY
Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
by John Haugeland. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985.
287 pp., illus. Trade, $34.95; paper, $14.95.
ISBN: 0-262-08153-9; ISBN: 0-262-08154-9.
Reviewed by [Name. Full Address/Country/E-mail.]
For Compact Discs:
Title of CD reviewed. If the title is not in English,
please provide a translation.
Artist(s) name.
Catalog number or order number.
Name of record label, city/country of release, year
of release.
Any other pertinent info, e.g. if reissue, date of original
release.
Name and address of reviewer, including country and
e-mail address.
EXAMPLE: PLEASE FOLLOW EXACTLY
Ghosts and Monsters: Technology and Personalityin Contemporary
Music
Various artists. Leonardo/ISAST and
Electronic Music Foundation, EMF
CD012, 1998.
Reviewed by [Name. Full Address/Country/E-mail.]
For Exhibitions:
Title of exhibition reviewed. If the title is not in
English, please provide a translation.
Artist(s) name.
Name of exhibiting museum or gallery, city/country,
opening and closing dates of exhibition.
Name and address of reviewer, including country and
e-mail address.
EXAMPLE: PLEASE FOLLOW EXACTLY
A Century of Great Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
15
September-15 October, 1999.
Reviewed by [Name. Full Address/Country/E-mail.]
SUBMISSION: REVIEWS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA E-MAIL TO ldr@leonardo.info.
DEADLINE: Once you receive a review copy, you must send
us the review within 2 months. We will not send you additional
items for review until we receive reviews of items you've already
received.
FEEDBACK TO THE PUBLISHER: If your review appears in
the print journal, a copy of the review will be sent by the MIT
Press to the publisher of the item you reviewed.
EDITING: Generally, reviews published in Leonardo Reviews
are published as received. For reviews published in the print journal
LEONARDO, we reserve the right to edit and/or shorten your review.
We will look out
for libel and other legal issues.
COPYRIGHT: Your review will be copyrighted by ISAST
(International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, the
organization that publishes LEONARDO). We freely grant permission
to authors to re-use
their reviews in any work or publication of their own.
PAYMENT: All reviews for LEONARDO are unpaid. As a reviewer,
however, you are entitled to retain the materials you have reviewed.
All reviewers may also receive a free subscription to the monthly
LEONARDO ELECTRONIC
ALMANAC. To receive this free subscription, send e-mail to ldr@leonardo.info and
request it. We will publish your name as a member of the Leonardo
Reviews Panel.
To submit an item for review by the Leonardo Reviews Panel,
arrange to have the item sent to the LEONARDO Editorial Office.
Physical publications (books, journals, catalogs, compact
discs, CD-ROMs, videotapes, diskettes, etc.) should be mailed to:
ADDRESS FOR LEONARDO REVIEWS (PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS)
Michael Punt, Editor-in-Chief
Leonardo Reviews
University of Plymouth, School of Computing Communications and Electronics
Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon
PL4 8A A United Kingdom
E-mail: ldr@leonardo.info
To have electronic publications (WWW, BBS, electronic
journals) reviewed, send e-mail with full details to: ldr@leonardo.info.
HOW TO JOIN THE LEONARDO REVIEWS PANEL
To recommend that a colleague be invited to become a member
of the Leonardo Reviews Panel, please send e-mail to ldr@leonardo.info.
Reviewers must be accessible through the Internet to be eligible for
the Reviews Panel. Please only recommend professional colleagues whose
judgment you trust.
HOW TO REQUEST AN ITEM FOR REVIEW
We e-mail to the review panel on a regular basis a list of
items available in our office for review. If you are interested
in reviewing one of the items on this list, send e-mail to ldr@leonardo.info. Identify
the item and tell us the postal address where you would like it
mailed. If you do not give us an address, we cannot mail it to
you. If you would
like to review an item that is not on this list, you may contact
the publisher directly and request the item from the publisher.
Identify yourself to them
as a member of the Leonardo Reviews Panel; if necessary, we can
provide you with a letter certifying you are a member of the Reviews
panel. You
may also review other items that you have access to. Please note
that we can only send requested material by surface mail since
other forms of mailing
are cost-prohibitive. Thank you for your understanding.
APPOINTMENTS
Appointments to the Leonardo Reviews Panel are generally for
a period of one year. Normally you will automatically be reappointed
to the panel if we have received a review from you. If we do not receive
a review
from you during the year of your appointment, you can expect to be
dropped from the panel.
ETHICS
We expect all reviewers to use professional ethics. For instance,
it is unprofessional to review a book written by a close friend
or an exhibit that you helped organize. Likewise, it is unprofessional
to arrange for
a review of one's own work by someone you know will write a favorable
review. Ad hominem attacks are unethical. We have occasionally
been surprised in
30 years of publishing LEONARDO and have had to ask reviewers to
resign from the Reviews Panel for unethical or unprofessional conduct.
THANKS
LEONARDO would like to thank you for your work as a member
of the Leonardo Reviews panel. We know that the reviews that we
publish are widely read and make known the works of these artists
and authors to
a wide international audience. We are open to all suggestions and
feedback to improve this service that LEONARDO provides to its
professional community.
Send queries about Leonardo Reviews to: ldr@leonardo.info