becomes the discourse of another screen space, color and line, the tools Steel Water Light tomorrow. of the graphic designer. Arising from Roberto Musci, Chris Cutler, Jon Rose A “poetic reflection on the highly an installation made during a stay in and Claudio Gabbiano. ReR Mega- symbolic kidnapping of Aldo Moro” is the south of Holland, the ephemera corps, Surrey, U.K., 1999. Cesare Davolio’s description of his CD- and evidence collected from the event ROM Annunciation. President Moro of does not attempt, as so many television Books Italy was kidnapped in the streets of documentaries have, to set up specula- Rome in March 1978 following a tive interviews or entertain with as- The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situation- bloody gun battle with members of the sorted conspiracy theories, but to ist Architectures from Constant’s New Red Brigades (Brigade Rosse or Br). present decidedly two-dimensional and Babylon to Beyond For the next 54 days, the media “ran visually vivid souvenirs from those Catherine de Zegher and Mark Wigley, with the story” until negotiations ex- times. A typographical animation with eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., pired and Moro was found shot dead in the words “terror,” “horror,” “error,” 2001. 150 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262- a car abandoned in another Rome either is literally a play with words, or 04191-X. street equidistant between the head- moves towards a moral position that quarters of the governing Christian says far more than the simplistic post- Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Democrats and the Communist Party. 9/11 rhetoric of “terrorist.” Online Robots The printed essay by Paul Groot in What is the connection between Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart, Mediamatic Off-Line describes these Mediamatic magazine and an event in eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., events as “a contemporary drama with Italy from over 20 years ago? Most of 2002. 321 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262- classical overtones.” and the accompa- Mediamatic’s contributors have a tangi- 07225-4. nying essays by other Mediamatic staffers ble connection with Holland—Davolio Arie Altena and Dirk van Weelden studied in Maastricht—and Mediamatic The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures likewise analyze the events and their has established a strong reputation David Temperley. MIT Press, Cam- representation in this artwork. These over its 15-year history of addressing bridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 391 pp., illus. commentaries are at a certain distance political as well as aesthetic issues con- Trade. ISBN: 0-262-20134-8. from the experience of interacting with temporary to the European milieu and Davolio’s multimedia work and, by presenting them using the print and Conceptual Art and Painting: Further providing a contemporary context, are graphical design approach special to Essays on Art and Language more about the writers and their im- the Dutch tradition. It has also been a Charles Harrison. MIT Press, Cam- mersion in the realpolitik of European champion of artists who use CD-ROM bridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. 229 pp., illus. discourse, shared with Davolio if not to distribute their work and ideas, Trade. ISBN: 0-262-08302-7. led by his work. Salvatore Puglia, an ex- being among the first print publica- member of the Br, provides an apolo- tions to include discs as part of each David Levy’s Guide to the Night Sky gia, stating that the imagination of issue. Mediamatic magazine is now on- David H. Levy. Cambridge Univ. Press, fellow “members of my generation, of line at <http://www.mediamatic. Cambridge, U.K., 2001 (reprint). 337 my intellectual peers, was derived from net>, but the distinctive graphic and pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-521-79753-5. comic book heroes.” This was a genera- print style is maintained in slimmer tion raised on daily media reports form as Mediamatic Off-Line, issued Dynamics of Organizations: Computational displaying violent times in Italy (and three times a year, complete with sev- Modeling and Organizational Theories elsewhere) and some of them chose to eral essays on each featured CD-ROM, Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen, lash out at an oligarchy—including by subscription or through specialist eds. AAAI Press/MIT Press, Menlo church, organized crime and foreign booksellers. Park, CA, U.S.A., 2001. 502 pp., illus. operatives—that, while keeping Italy Paper. ISBN: 0-262-62152-5. outwardly prosperous, impoverished its social, political and cultural life. False Colors: Art, Design and Modern The annunciation is in fact three MATERIALS RECEIVED Camouflage announcements in this one work: the Roy R. Behrens. Bobolink Books, events of the 54 days and their after- Dysart, IA, U.S.A., 2002. 223 pp., illus. math, related through media reports of Audio Compact Discs Paper. ISBN: 0-9713244-0-9. the time; the extraordinary 95 “letters” that were sent out by Moro during that Electroacoustic, Chamber Ensemble, A History of Russian Music: From time (only a selection are here—they Soundscapes & Works for Radio Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar were partly an agenda for the IOLINI. ReR Megacorps, Surrey, U.K., Francis Maes. University of California rapprochement he planned to bring 2000. Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2002. 402 about between the right and the left of pp., illus., Trade. ISBN: 0-520-21815-9. Italian politics); and the response 20 Grooved Whale years later by the CD-ROM creator, who Lisa Walker. EarthEar, Santa Fe, NM, Literary Culture in a World Transformed: was most likely a child at the time. U.S.A., 2001. A Future for the Humanities Cesare Davolio, the author, is also a William Paulson. Cornell Univ. Press, designer, and navigating the work, as New Zealand Sonic Art, Vol. II Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.; and London, U.K., with the old-style Mediamatic, turns Various artists. The University of 2001. 200 pp. Paper. ISBN: 0-8014- each page with the striking use of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2001. 8730-7. Leonardo Reviews 341 Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/leon.2002.35.3.341 by guest on 24 September 2021 Mediaworks reflect the eclectic nature of his interests, Nancy Paterson. Exh. cat. Surrey Art INTRODUCING THE LDR covering facets of the art/science inter- Gallery, Surrey, B.C., Canada, 2001. 79 PANEL face: philosophical matters and historical pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-920181-52-X. case studies on the nature of and interac- tion between art and science, the role of perception in science and art, and the Painting Outside the Lines Simone Osthoff is a Brazilian artist and realm of scientific illustration. E-mail: David W. Galenson. Harvard Univ. writer based in the United States. Her <[email protected]>. Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2001. research and publications focus on 223 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-674- Latin American visual culture and new 00612-7. media art. Osthoff has written for the New Art Examiner, Leonardo and World LEONARDO DIGITAL Quitter la Gravité Art, among other journals and on-line Association des Astronautes Autonomes. venues. Her work has been exhibited in REVIEWS L’éclat, France, 2001. 260 pp., illus. solo and group shows nationally and Paper. ISBN: 2-84162-058-1. internationally. Osthoff holds graduate Leonardo publishes reviews of books, degrees from the University of Mary- digital publications (CD-ROMs, on-line Storms in Space land and the School of the Art Institute works, World Wide Web sites), audio John W. Freeman. Cambridge Univ. of Chicago, where she taught in the CDs and tapes, events and exhibitions. Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2001. 130 pp., Department of Art History, Theory and Accepted reviews are published either illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-521-66038-6. Criticism between 1997 and 2001. She in Leonardo Digital Reviews (a section is assistant professor of critical studies of our electronic journal Leonardo Surrealism: Desire Unbound at the School of Visual Arts, Pennsylva- Electronic Almanac), on our Leonardo Jennifer Mundy, ed. Princeton Univ. nia State University. World Wide Web site (http://mitpress. Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2001. 339 mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html) or in pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-691-09064-5. Sonya Rapoport had an extensive ca- our print journals Leonardo or Leonardo reer as a painter before becoming a Music Journal. Waves in Fluids multimedia artist. She started produc- We do not accept unsolicited reviews. James Lighthill. Cambridge Univ. Press, ing computer-assisted artworks in the Individuals interested in joining the Cambridge, U.K., 2001 (reissue). 489 mid-1970s, when she became involved Leonardo reviews panel should e-mail a pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-521-01045-4. in art/science collaborations at the brief professional biography with an Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the example of a review to <ldr@Leonardo. Ways of the Hand: A Rewritten Account Anthropology Department at the Uni- org>. David Sudnow. MIT Press, Cambridge, versity of California at Berkeley. Her Authors and artists interested in MA, U.S.A., 2001. 139 pp. illus. Trade. multi-disciplinary interactive installa- having their (physical) publications ISBN: 0-262-19467-8. tions have been presented at São Paulo, (books, CDs, CD-ROMs, etc.) consid- Brazil; Ars Electronica, Austria; DOCU- ered by the reviews panel should World Spectators MENTA, Kassel, Germany; and the arrange to have one copy shipped to Kaja Silverman. Cambridge Univ. Press, Kuopio Museum in Finland. ISEA, Leonardo Digital Reviews, 425 Market Cambridge, U.K., 2000. 225 pp., illus. Digital Salon, and SIGGRAPH have Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA Trade. ISBN: 0-804-73831-9. hosted her electronic artwork over the 94105, U.S.A. past several years. She is currently work- Organizers of events or exhibitions Multimedia ing on a piece about the Tree of Life, and authors of on-line publications and the symbol of Kabbalah mysticism.