Creative Disturbance

Bronac Ferran and Fabrice Lapelletrie continue picking the brain of artist Liliane Lijn. Here, Lijn offers her opinions on classifying her own artwork, collaboration with fellow artists, and inspirations that led to some of her more unique creations.

Artist Liliane Lijn sits down with Fabrice Lapelletrie and Bronac Ferran to discuss the intent and influences behind her contributions to kinetic art.

Longtemps considéré comme une entité semi-vivante, inerte et active, molécule et organisme à la fois, ou au contraire, rien de tout cela, le virus est aujourd’hui envisagé comme un agent essentiel à l’évolution de la vie chez les êtres vivants. Retour avec Thierry Bardini sur l’actualité de cette figure de l’écologie symbiotique, à l’intersection des mondes numériques et biologiques.

Peut-on (ou plutôt comment) penser le théâtre, la danse et les arts de la performance à l’ère des biotechnologies, de l’ingénierie du vivant et de l’émergence de formes de vie artificielles? Roger Malina et Yvan Tina proposent un rapide tour d'horizon de ces pratiques, entre arts et techno-sciences, qui ouvrent de nouvelles avenues dans le champ de la représentation.

Andrew Blanton and Scot Gresham-Lancaster introduce and discuss CONDUCTOR, an exploration in real-time sound diffusion using multiple iOS devices as sensors for the placement of sound. The design references the historical use of spatial dimensions in music and addresses how the disintegration of traditional audience/performer roles creates massive implications for this new approach to "conducting". The system requires at least four channels of audio for 360 degree audio spatialization.

Filmmaker Jeff Walker discusses with David Marlett the methods and madness of Jeff's crowdfunding campaign for his new indie movie, JINH. They discuss filmmaking, passion projects, and Jeff gives strong insights and tips for crowdfunding campaigns for films.

A conversation between David Marlett and Iraq veteran Craig Anderson. Craig has an ongoing Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign wherein he seeks funding to travel across the United States, photographing and documenting what makes America a great country to live in and fight for. In this conversation Craig discusses what led him to undertake this mission, the work involved in crowdfunding, the obstacles he faced, and the passion required.

Crowdfunding expert David Marlett and new media/crowdfunding attorney Michael Melfi talk about the current world of crowdfunding, with a particular look at equity crowdfunding and the new portal FUNDERBUILT.

Robert Root-Bernstein discusses (with astronomer and editor Roger Malina) how successful scientist and engineers (Nobel Prize winners, Academy members) partake in arts avocations as part of their creative research practice. His studies find that successful scientists and engineers engage in the arts far more than less successful ones. He also describes the habits of creative people as detailed in his book, Sparks of Genius.

Our contributors discuss their work in the arts and sciences as showcased in the new article collection, "Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts". "Water Is in the Air" explores the ways that artists, from all over the world, working at the cutting edge of science and engineering, create work that addresses critical issues of water in culture and society.

Listen as our contributors discuss the connections between science and the arts, especially where the sublime--the unknowable, the incomprehensible-- fits within these fields. Featuring Michael Punt, Sundar Sarukkai, Martyn Woodward, and Roger Malina.

Our contributors explore the connections between the sciences and art with a specific focus on chemistry, and discuss how materials traditionally identified with science can be used to create unique pieces of art.

Maximilian Schich, Isabel Meirelles, and Roger Malina discuss the contents and creation of the new article collection, Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, which explores the application of the science of complex networks to art history, archeology, visual arts, the art market, and other areas of cultural importance.

Nicolas Collins, editor of Leonardo Music Journal and Chair of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, answers questions about the 20th anniversary issue of LMJ. In this podcast, Collins explains how he chose the issue's theme of "improvisation" and shares his insights regarding the process of putting the issue together, as well as about how improvisation and composition have evolved during his tenure as editor of LMJ.

Author and filmmaker David Marlett meets with immersive media artist and researcher Michael Naimark to discuss the emergence of immersive cinema, its expected challenges, and new storytelling opportunities.