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  • Leonardo Reviews On-Line

The reviews published in print are but a small selection of the reviews available on the Leonardo Reviews web site. Below is a full list of reviews published in LR March-June 2006 <leonardoreviews.mit.edu>.

June 2006

The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression, by Christine Ross. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
Angels and Demons in Art, by Rosa Giorgi. Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg.
J.G. Ballard: Conversations, edited by V. Vale. Reviewed by John F. Barber.
The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary, by William Playfair. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.
Darwin's Ghost, The Darwin Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 19 November 2005-20 August 2006. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.
Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, by Siegfried Zielinski; Gloria Custance, trans. Foreword by Timothy Druckrey. Reviewed by Michael Punt.
Feintes_doutes + fictions : Réflexions sur la photographie numérique, edited by Rodrigue Bélanger. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
Mademoiselle and the Doctor, by Janine Hosking. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
Malick Sidibé: Portrait of the Artist as a Portraitist, by Susan Vogel. Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg.
Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture, by Matthew Fuller. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.
Painting the Digital River, by James Faure Walker. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music, by Virgil Moorefield. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.
Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database, by Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky. Reviewed by Andrea Dahlberg.
Solaristics, by Thessalonians. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.

May 2006

Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory, by Ian Verstegen. Reviewed by Amy Ione.
Art et Internet. Les nouvelles figures de la création, by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.
Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman, by William S. Haney II. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire, by Tom Sandqvist. Reviewed by Alise Piebalga.
Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era, edited by Roy Ascott. Reviewed by Rob Harle.
Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK, by Alexei Monroe; Foreword by Salvoj Zizek. Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher.
Kenneth Anger, by Ann L. Hutchison. Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher.
Kochuu: Japanese Architecture/Influence & Origin, directed by Jesper Wachtmeister and MA: A Japanese Concept, by Takahiko Iimura. Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher.
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 15 March-2 April 2006. Reviewed by Aparna Sharma.
Rays, by Michael Nesmith. Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher.
Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions, edited by Mike Budd and Max Kirsch. Reviewed by Victoria de Rijke.
Re Views: Artists and Public Space, by Louise O'Reilly, Edward Allington, Simon Read et al. Reviewed by Alise Piebalga.
Secrets of the Sideshows, by Joe Nickell. Reviewed by John F. Barber.
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw. Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher.
Surrealism and the Politics of Eros 1938-1968, by Alyce Mahon. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.
Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits, and Robots, by Eduardo Kac. Reviewed by Dene Grigar.
Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West, by Mark Klett. Reviewed by Aparna Sharma. [End Page 502]
What Do Pictures Want?, by W.J.T. Mitchell. Reviewed by Eugene Thacker.
YLEM Journal: Science Fiction and Its Discontents, edited by Loren Means. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

April 2006

Antonio Negri: A Revolt that Never Ends, directed by Alexandra Weltz and Andreas Pichler. Reviewed by Stefaan Van Ryssen.
A Bibliographical History of the Study and Use of Color from Aristotle to Kandinsky, by Kenneth E. Burchett. Reviewed by Wilfred Niels Arnold.
Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet, by Richard Coyne. Reviewed by Michael R. Mosher.
Digital Art at ARCO: An Indicator of the Markets of Technological Art Products? Reviewed by Marcus Neustetter.
Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment, by Michael Brian Schiffer. Reviewed by Stephen Wilson.
Hermitage-Niks: A Passion for the Hermitage and The Hermitage Dwellers, directed by Aliona van der Horst. Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens.
The Human Hambone, directed by Mark Morgan. Reviewed by...

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