Leonardo On-Line Bibliographies

TheLeonardoBibliographyProject (http:// mitpress.mit.edu/e-joumak/Leonardo/isast/ spec.projects/biblios.html)places bibliographies of interest to our art/science/technology audience on Leonardo On-Line, the Leonardo WWWSite. ljpes ofbibliographies includereadinglistsfor classes and courses of interest to educators;detailed bibliographies on specialized topics (e.g.Art and Biology); bibliographiesof single authors of intmst to our readership (e.g. RudolfAmheim).Readers interested inpublishing a bibliographyon Leonardo On-Lineshould contact the LeonardoEditorial Office 4sast@sfu.edu> with a desrriptionof the bibliography.Ifthe bibliography is already available on-line, send us a desniption and we willpoint to the bibliography,i f appropiate. ART AND GENETICS http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/ Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/ art+biobiblio.html Compiled by George Gessert Relatively few writers and critics have made explicit connections between art and genetics. However, manywritings are relevant. The Art and GeneticsBibliography includes (1)writings that directlyexplore the area of overlapbetween art and genetics; (2) catalogs and studies of art with genetic dimensions, for example, Dutch flowerpainting and ecologicalart; (3) studies of domestication and histories of plants and animals kept for esthetic pleasure, such as pets; (4)writings about esthetic criteria used in plant and animal selection; (5) explorations of the biophilia hypothesis; and (6) science-fiction accounts of genetic art. SPURIOUS IMAGES IN ART AND ADVERTISING http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/ Leon a r d o / isast / spec. proj e cts/ spuriousbib.htm1 Compiled by Rqv R Behrens Everyday examples of “spurious images” (which art historian H.W. Janson called “chance images”) include Rorschach inkblots, the Man in the Moon, faces in clouds, and, arguably, the Shroud of Turin and Joe Camel. In the visual arts, one of the earliest, most celebrated examples is a frequently quoted passage from the notebooks o f Leonardo da Vinci: “If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones ...you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad valleys, and hills of different shapes. You can also find in them battles and rapidly moving figures, strange faces and costumes , as well as an infinite number of things. . . .” One could cite hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other examples, some of which might be classified as “natural simulacra” (the result, some would insist, of purposeful activity on the part of a deity) and the remainder as humanmade “embedded figures,” the consequence of deliberate or accidental human activity. Because spurious images are ambiguous, their interpretation requires a complicity, more or less, on the part of the viewer, an act described by art historian E.H. Gombrich (in Art and Illusion ) as “the beholder’s share,” and by psychologists,variously, as “closure”and “projection.” SPACEAND THEARTS http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/ Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/ biblios.htm1 Compiled by Annick Bureaud The topic of Space Art encompasses art practices and artworks related to astronomy and space exploration. The Space and the Arts Bibliography includes citations of articles by artists and scientists that have been published on this topic in Leonardo [l]as well as in other periodicals, conference and symposia proceedings, and books. Artworks discussed in these publications range from Pierre Comte’s huge land mass designs , which are only recognizable as designs when seen from outer space, to Arthur Woods’s CosmicDancersculptures, which have traveled to the Mir space station via rocket, to Michael Heivly’ssculp tural radio transmitters that send musical sound-pattern compositions into space. Note 1. This bibliography was created as part of the Leonardo Space Art Project,which sponsorsactivities such as meetings and seminarsin collaboration with other organizationsand individuals.More information about the Leonardo Space Art Projectis available at . BIBLIOGRAPHIEG l h k A L E DE L’ART JkECTRONIQUE http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/ Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/ biblios.htm1 Cornpiledby Annick Bureaud Bibliographie gCnCrale de l’art electronique (Electronic Arts General Bibliography ), written in French, lists books, proceedings and catalogs (but not articles published in periodicals) relevant to the fields of art, science and technology .The list is divided into three categories : (1)theoretical and general publications (arts, sciences and human sciences); (2) multiple art practices; and (3) specific art practices (visual arts, communication...