Art, Science and the Environment

Papers from the Leonardo and LMJ Archives

The connection between art and the environment has long been a topic of interest for Leonardo. Below is a list of articles previously published in Leonardo and LMJ on this topic area.

Leif Brush, "Monitoring Nature's Sounds with Terrain-Based Constructions" (Leonardo 17:1)

Agnes Denes, "Notes on Eco-Logic: Environmental Artwork, Visual Philosophy and Global Perspective" (Leonardo 26:5)

David Dunn, "Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic Art and Nature Wilderness as Reentrant Form" (Leonardo 21:4)

David Dunn and James Crutchfield, "Entomogenic Climate Change: Insect Bioacoustics and Future Forest Ecology" (Leonardo 42:3)

George Gessert, "Gathered from Coincidence: Reflections on Art in a Time of Global Warming" (Leonardo 40:3)

Ken Goldberg, et al., "Mori: An Internet-Based Earthwork" (Leonardo 35:3)

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, "Shifting Positions toward the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness" (Leonardo 26:5)

Mae-Wan Ho, "Reanimating Nature: The Integration of Science with Human Experience" (Leonardo 24:5)

Guillaume Hutzler et al., "The Garden of Chances: A Visual Ecosystem" (Leonardo 33:2)

Ursula Huws, "Nature, Technology and Art: The Emergence of a New Relationship?" (Leonardo 33:1)

Joseph E. Ingoldsby, "Vanishing Landscapes: The Atlantic Salt Marsh" (Leonardo 42:2)

Phra Hans Ulrich Kaempfer and Sheila Pinkel, "The Earth Music of Thamkrabok Monastery" (Leonardo 37:1)

Damian Keller, "Compositional Processes from an Ecological Perspective" (Leonardo Music Journal 10)

Julian Knebusch, "Planet Earth in Contemporary Electronic Artworks" (Leonardo 37:1)

Aleksandra Manczak, "The Ecological Imperative: Elements of Nature in Late Twentieth-Century Art" (Leonardo 35:2)

Andrea Polli, "Atmospherics/Weather Works: A Spatialized Meteorological Data Sonification Project" (Leonardo 38:1)

Andrea Polli, "Heat and the Heartbeat of the City: Sonifying Data Describing Climate Change" (Leonardo Music Journal 16)

Jane Quon, "Phenomenology and Artistic Praxis: An Application to Marine Ecological Communication" (Leonardo 38:3)

Janine Randerson, "Between Reason and Sensation: Antipodean Artists and Climate Change" (Leonardo 40:5)

Janet Saad-Cook, "Touching the Sky: Artworks Using Natural Phenomena, Earth, Sky and Connections to Astronomy" (Leonardo 21:2)

Ruth Wallen, "Of Story and Place: Communicating Ecological Principles through Art" (Leonardo 36:3)

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Updated 14 July 2010