Leonardo
Volume 32, Number 3
Contents
May/June 1999
Leonardo is a print journal, edited by Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and published by the MIT Press. Subscriptions and individual issues can be ordered from the MIT Press.
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Pages 159-163
The Leonardo Gallery
Cynthia Pannucci, curator: LightForms: Interactive Light Installations
- Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn: Lost Referential
- Paul Friedlander: Dark Matter
- Dirk Rutten and Jeroen Kascha: Satori
Pages 165-173
Artists' Article
Christa Sommerer with Laurent Mignonneau: Art as a Living System: Interactive Computer Artworks
ABSTRACT
The authors design computer installations that integrate artificial life and real life by means of human-computer interaction. While exploring real-time interaction and evolutionary image processes, visitors to their interactive installations become essential parts of the systems by transferring the individual behaviors, emotions and personalities to the works' image processing. Images in these installations are not static, pre-fixed or predictable, but "living systems" themselves, representing minute changes in the viewers' interactions with the installations' evolutionary image processes.
Pages 175-182
Artists' Statements
- Hervé Nahon: Time Is Light
- Sylvie Pic: Order Hidden Under Chaos
- Robert Emmett Mueller: Visic: A Proposal for a True Color Music
- Scott Parsons: Concrete Amnesia: An Indigenous Star Map Resurfaces the Downtown Grid
- Guillaume Hutzler, Bernard Bortais and Alexis Drogoul: Garden of Chances
- Bill Hill: Apparatus 3957
Pages 183-189
Theoretical Perspectives on the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Massimo Negrotti: From the Artificial to the Art: A Short Introduction to a Theory and Its Applications
ABSTRACT
The author presents the idea that all human attempts to reproduce natural objects ("exemplars") or their functions---that is, to build artificial objects or processes---unavoidably result in a transfiguration of the exemplars. After introducing the main concepts of a theory of the artificial, the author extends the theory to communication and the arts, both of which provide compelling examples of the generation of artificial objects or processes. The author conceives of art as a paradoxical communication process by which transfiguration does not represent a failure of the reproduction process but, rather, the true objective of the artist.
Pages 191-195
General Article
Patricia Search: Electronic Art and the Law: Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace
ABSTRACT
The dematerialization of art that began in the 1960s has reached new heights with the use of electronic media. We are at an important crossroads in defining intellectual property rights that will have a direct impact on the way we create and disseminate electronic art in the future. This paper examines the historical evolution of the definition of "author" in copyright law. The paper shows how current copyright legislation and recent court decisions do not address the plasticity of the medium and the new forms of authorship that are defined by the artistic use of techniques such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, hypermedia links and collaborative networking.
Pages 197-198
General Note
Rudolf Arnheim: Buildings and Human Figures Aware of Each Other
ABSTRACT
The visual relationship between buildings and human beings is treated as the interaction between two systems: the reality system, dealing with the physical world in and of itself, and the apprehension system, dealing with the world looked at and represented by viewers. The two systems interact in a unitary physical world and can also be depicted in the visual arts.
199-207
Document
Don Foresta, Georges-Albert Kisfaludi and Jonathan Barton.: The Souillac II Conference on Art, Industry and Innovation: Final Report
with an Introduction by Martin Malvy
ABSTRACT
This document builds on the discussion among art and industry representatives documented in "The Souillac Charter for Art and Industry: A Framework for Collaboration" (Leonardo 31, 3 [1998]). Specific projects and project ideas are presented, with the aim of increasing collaboration between artists and the telecommunications industry. Such increased collaboration will result in greater recognition and protection for artists and in greater innovation and creativity for industry.
Pages 209-225
Special Section
The Aesthetic Status of Technological Art
Introduction
Jacques Mandelbrojt, Marcel Frémiot and Roger F. Malina: The Aesthetic Status of Technological Art
Colloquium Presentations
- Louise Poissant: Netsurfers and Cybernauts in Search of Identity
- Eduardo Kac: Biotelematics
- Roy Ascott: The Technoetic Predicate
- Michele Emmer: Mathematicians: The New Artists?
- Marcel Frémiot: Same Period, Same Problems?
- Emmanuel Pedler: The Systematic Refusal of Modern Music and the Cult of Classicism
Pages 227-228
Extended Abstract
Jörg Jewanski: What Is the Color of the Tone?
Pages 229-230
Leonardo On-Line Bibliographies
231-238
Reviews
Wilfred Niels Arnold, Molly Beth Hankwitz, Sophie Hampshire, Richard W. Mitchell, Roger F. Malina
239-242
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