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Amy Ione

Directorat The Diatrope Institute
Focus area: Art History, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuroaesthetics, Fine Arts 2D, Optics, Visual Perception

Amy Ione is an artist, educator, and the Director of The Diatrope Institute. She has published extensively on art, science and technology topics.  She has widely published in the books and journals of several disciplines. Her books include Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths (Rodopi, 2005) and Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle (Rodopi Brill 2016).

Journal Articles:
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Plasticity in the Life Sciences

June 2025
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Pathology and Visual Culture: The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpêtrière School

February 2025
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Leonardo Da Vinci

December 2024
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Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject

October 2024
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Black is the Color

August 2024
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William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

August 2024
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Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

June 2024
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Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson

October 2023
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ACEVEDO in Context: Analog Media 1977–1987 · Digital Media 1983–2020

August 2023
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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

October 2021
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From Méliès to New Media: Spectral Projections

June 2021
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The Judgement of the Eye: The Metamorphoses of Geometry—One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness by Jürgen Weber. Springer-Verlag, Vienna, Austria and New York, NY, U.S.A., 2002. 200 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 3-211-83768-X

June 2003
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Perception and Illusion: Historical Perspectives by Nicholas J. Wade. Springer, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2005. 250 pp. ISBN: 0387227229

April 2007
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Gerhard Richter edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2009. 200 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-262-01351-2, ISBN: 978-026-251312-8

October 2010
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Art and the Senses

October 2014
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Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World

February 2019
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Exploring Consciousness by Rita Carter. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. and Weidenfeld Nicolson, London, U.K., 2002. 320 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-520-23737-4

June 2003
Editorial

Celebrating the Art, Science and Technology Community

June 2007
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The Arts of China Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded by Michael Sullivan. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2009. 368 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 9780520255685; 9780520255692

October 2010
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Matter and Consciousness, Third Edition

February 2015
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Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now

June 2019
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Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps

October 2003
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Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought by Tony Robbin. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., 2006. 160 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-300110-39-1

June 2007
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Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages Collective Action 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference, 27–30 October 2009, Berkeley Art Museum and the University of California at Berkeley

June 2010
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The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art

February 2015
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A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species

February 2020
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Images From Science: An Exhibition of Scientific Photography

October 2003
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Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s–1970s edited by Lynn Zelevansky. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2004. 232 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-24047-5

August 2007
Editorial

Art and the Brain: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

June 2012
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Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction

June 2015
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Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves

April 2020
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Other American Voices

February 2004
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The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air edited by Daniell Cornell. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2006. 205 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0520-25044-4; ISBN: 978-0520-25045-1

October 2007
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The Moving Earth directed by Lars Becker-Larsen. Icarus Films, 52 min. Release Date: 2009. Copyright Date: 2008. 〈http://icarusfilms.com/new2009/mov.html

April 2011
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To Tell the Truth: Working for Change: Documenting Hard Times (1929–1941)

October 2015
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Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life

June 2020
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Masaccio: Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece

August 2004
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Playing the News directed by Jeff Plunkett and Jigar Mehta. First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, 2005. DVD/VHS, 20 min, color

October 2007
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A Mysterious Masterpiece: The World of the Linder Gallery edited by Michael John Gorman. Florence, Italy: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi/Alias. 135 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-8-96532-02-7

April 2011
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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist

October 2015
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Degas Through his Own Eyes

October 2004
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Bernie Boston: American Photojournalist by Therese Mulligan. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, NY, U.S.A., 2006. 112 pp., illus. ISBN: 1-933360-19-4

February 2008
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Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution by Phillip Prodger. Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp., illus. Hardcover. ISBN-10: 0195150317; ISBN-13: 978-0195150315

February 2011
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After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain

February 2016
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Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity

October 2004
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Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis by Elizabeth C. Mansfield. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2007. 240 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4748-4; ISBN: 0-8166-4749-1

April 2008
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Perpetual Inventory by Rosalind E. Krauss. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010, 336 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN 10: 0262013800; ISBN-13: 978-0262013802

October 2011
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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature

June 2016
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The spectre Of Hope: With Sebastiäo Salgado and John Berger

August 2003
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Neurology of the Arts: Painting, Music, Literature

February 2005