LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_r_02557
Hu Yue
{"title":"Postsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial","authors":"Hu Yue","doi":"10.1162/leon_r_02557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_r_02557","url":null,"abstract":"<span><strong>Postsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial</strong> by James Voorhies. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2023. 176 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-0262047609.</span>","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_r_02556
Amy Ione
{"title":"William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician","authors":"Amy Ione","doi":"10.1162/leon_r_02556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_r_02556","url":null,"abstract":"<span><strong>William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician</strong> by Emma K. Sutton. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A., 2023. 240 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-0226828961.</span>","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02551
Gyung Jin Shin
{"title":"Technology as Resistance: Pioneers of Korean Media Art from the 1960s to the 1990s","authors":"Gyung Jin Shin","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02551","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper calls for a reassessment of early-stage Korean avant-garde and experimental art as the cornerstone of Korean media art. The aim is to discern a new genealogy of media art in Korea by tracing and linking the activities of early avant-garde artists and media art pioneers who have been neglected in the dominant art historiography, which has shown a preference for painting and video art. My detailed analysis of the experimental artists of the 1960s and 1970s, small groups in the mid-1980s, and the Art Tech Group in the early 1990s demonstrates how they revealed and articulated their spirit of resistance against academism and the mainstream using technology, thus following a different trajectory from that of the avant-garde and media art in Europe and North America.</p>","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02545
Shachar Freddy Kislev
{"title":"The Ecology of Knowledge: How the Complexity Sciences Can Explain the Peculiar Alliance between Art and Philosophy","authors":"Shachar Freddy Kislev","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02545","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Why is art allied with philosophy? Why are artists expected to be familiar with critical discursive practices? This paper sketches a naturalistic framework for approaching this problem by conceptualizing knowledge as a complex adaptive system. The author argues against a static image of the disciplines, as implied by Biglan’s typology, and proposes an evolving understanding of disciplinary dynamics. Based on this framework, the author suggests that art and philosophy form a communication niche maintained primarily through the positions of the critic and curator. The author questions the usefulness of this bond and advocates for the free exploration of the ecology of knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02549
George K. Shortess
{"title":"The Development of Neural Art: An Outline","authors":"George K. Shortess","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02549","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Throughout the author’s career, Neural Art, which is based on the functional properties of the nervous system, has been a significant part of his artwork. Three features stimulated his artistic development: (1) nervous systems as functioning networks, (2) sequences of neural impulses that operate within these networks, and (3) the interactions of nervous systems with external environments. This has resulted in three types of artworks: (1) artist’s books, (2) paintings with overlaid grids to suggest the neural networks as interfaces between inner experience and outer reality, and (3) interactive sound sculptures and installations that, when viewers move around the pieces, generate nerve impulse–like sounds or words and phrases related to a nervous system experiencing the external environment. This paper describes the development of this artwork.</p>","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02550
Anna Maj
{"title":"Forgotten Pioneers of Media Art: Laboratory of Presentation Techniques","authors":"Anna Maj","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02550","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the mid-1970s the group Laboratory of Presentation Techniques (LPT) was active at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. The artists conducted experiments and formal searches, exploring the potential of film, performance, and a new medium: video. LPT was the first in Silesia, the second in Poland, and one of the first artistic groups in Europe dealing with video art. Looking at the artistic path of Grzegorz G. Zgraja, the last of the artists, as well as Jadwiga and Jacek Singer’s works, the paper analyzes the most pivotal artistic achievements of the group. Based on the interviews and archival research, the author reconstructs LPT’s artistic contribution to European media art and the reasons these pioneers of media art were forgotten.</p>","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02563
Andrea Rasell, Heather Bray
{"title":"Trafficking | Transmission | Translation: Exploring Embodiment as a Mode of Knowledge Construction in Science Art Installations","authors":"Andrea Rasell, Heather Bray","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02563","url":null,"abstract":"Science art practices are often framed as science communication in a manner that overlooks the capacity of the arts to provide engagement opportunities beyond discourse. The authors perform a thematic analysis of audience interviews from scientific media art installations that depict complex, intangible, invisible, and ephemeral scientific phenomena, specifically focusing on medical nanotechnology. The analysis reveals that visitors recognize sensorial experiences beyond traditional science communication, while scientists’ experiences expanded their definition of engagement. The authors argue that scientific media art practices act as sites of meaning-making and non-discursive engagement that create reflective and embodied contexts for encounters with emerging technologies.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02562
Kinga Anna Gajda
{"title":"Unveiling the Unspoken and Invisible: Analyzing Artistic Responses to Radiophobia","authors":"Kinga Anna Gajda","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02562","url":null,"abstract":"The persistent nuclear threat continues to loom large, particularly in the contemporary landscape shaped by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, often referred to as the Second Cold War. This conflict has drawn global attention and triggered an upsurge in nuclear discourse within the media, leading to a resurgence of radiophobia. This article aims to introduce the works of several artists who have undertaken the challenging task of rendering visible the imperceptible, ensuring that the nuclear threat and the repercussions of radiation are not relegated to oblivion.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02566
Juan-José Guerra-Valiente
{"title":"Compositional Rheology: Drafting Musical Flux through Fluid Mechanics and Drawing","authors":"Juan-José Guerra-Valiente","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02566","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the fluctuating relationship between the concepts of the “smooth” and “striated” musical space and time introduced by French composer Pierre Boulez and further developed by philosopher Gilles Deleuze, as well as its connection to rheology. The study focuses on how the understanding of the Reynolds number (Re), a parameter that characterizes the way a fluid flows in a duct, might provide a new approach to investigating the aforementioned musical concepts and visualizing them through drawing. This article also introduces a way of studying and visualizing musical compositions by establishing analogies between compositional parameters and the molecular and inertial forces that exist within the stream of a fluid.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02560
Marilia Lyra Bergamo
{"title":"Assemblage Robotic Plants: Individualizations of Many Orders of Magnitude","authors":"Marilia Lyra Bergamo","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02560","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the author’s artistic practice and presents robotic plant creations as assemblages using robotic autonomy unities in a Small-World Network configuration. This artistic production is significantly founded on Gilbert Simondon’s philosophical concepts about Technological Beings. Understanding these communities of robotic structures as individualizations is critical to apprehending them as individuals. The paper also discusses the implications of hardware design, coding, and the concept of artificial life related to the development of such technological organisms.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}