Leonardo Reviews On-Line

November 2009

Camoupedia—A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage by Roy R. Behrens. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, edited by Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens and Mirko Tobias Schäfer. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Invisible Vision: Could Science Learn from the Arts by Sabine E. Wildevuur. Reviewed by Stephen Wilson.

Lucanamarca by Carlos Cárdenas and Héctor Gálvez. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, edited by Christiane Paul. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller, edited by Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto G. Trujillo. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

Newspeak in the 21st Century by David Edwards and David Cromwell. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma; Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono, translators. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

October 2009

The Aesthetics of Disappearance, New Edition, by Paul Virilio; Philip Beitchman, translator. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

Ars Electronica 2009, Linz, Austria, 3-8 September, 2009. Reviewed by Yvonne Spielmann.

Bioethics in the Age of New Media by Joanna Zylinska. Reviewed by Jussi Parikka.

Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology, edited by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke. Reviewed by Maureen Nappi.

The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero, edited by Angela Ndalianis. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Cracked Media—The Sound of Malfunction by Caleb Kelly. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille; Stuart Kendall and Michelle Kendall, translators. Reviewed by Florence Martellini.

Creating Scientific Concepts by Nancy Nersessian. Reviewed by Amy Ione.

The Drawing Book, edited by Tania Kovats. Reviewed by George Shortess.

15th Filmfest St. Anton, 25-29 August 2009. Reviewed by Martha Blassnigg and Katharina Blassnigg.

The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization by The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, edited by Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Yue Dong and Tani E. Barlow. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance by Tomie Hahn. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

Sonic Mediations: Body Sound Technology, edited by Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

State, Space, World: Selected Essays of Henri Lefebvre, edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden. Reviewed by Aparna Sharma.

Talking with Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity by Helen Wood. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

Waxed Oop by Fast n' Bulbous. Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher.

September 2009

Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 by Rebecca M. Brown. Reviewed by Aparna Sharma.

Chris Marker: La Jetée by Janet Harbord. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

The Hidden Face of Fear by Enrico Cerasuolo and Sergio Fergnachino, directors. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

Milosevic on Trial by Michael Christoffersen. Reviewed by Jonathan Zilberg.

Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science by Hermann Weyl; Olaf Helmer, trans. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

The Space Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music by John Luther Adams. Reviewed by Franc Chamberlain.

The Theatre of Insects: Photographs by Jo Whaley by Jo Whaley, Linda Wiener and Deborah Klochko. Reviewed by Peter Smithers.

Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser; James Rolleston, translator. Reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi.

Third Person: Authoring and Exploring in Vast Narratives, edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.