Logo from the San Francisco Civic Arts Center poster on the Michael S. Bell Visual Art Access brochure. Date: 1987 Continue reading “Brochure: Visual Art Access Logo”
Category: Various
Hyperbolic Surface by Christopher W. Tyler and Amy Ione
This Hyperbolic Surface sculpture was constructed out of paper in 2001 with Christopher W. Tyler.
Connecting regular 7-sided polygons (heptagons) together to form a surface results in a geometry that cannot exist in flat (Euclidean)
space. Instead, it creates a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. Specifically, the arrangement where three heptagons meet at each vertex
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Frangelic by Christopher W. Tyler and Amy Ione
This piece of boxed art is an homage to Fra Angelica’ Linaiuoli Tabernacle: Peter Preaching with Mark. (Predella. 1433. Tempera on panel. 39 x 56 cm. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy).
This piece was designed to create a depth illusion. To see illusion the viewer needed to close one eye and move the head.
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Book Reviews by Amy Ione
Frank Malina: Light Art and Scientific Abstraction edited by Camille Fremontier. Published with RCM Galerie, 2025. 252 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-2-37896-558-7. (Reviewed by Amy Ione, Leonardo, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp122-124. 2025) PDF
Plasticity in the Life Sciences by Antonine Nicoglou. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 2024. 300pp. illus. ISBN: 978-0-22-683714-7; 978-0-22-683716-1. ((Reviewed by Amy Ione, Leonardo, Volume 58, No. 3, pp. 305-307, 2025). PDF
Homage to Naxi and Naxi in the Studio
Pictures of Naxi (full name Anaxamandra) helping in the studio, roaming on a fence, and sharing as only a cat can.
Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts)
This book offers a profound assessment of our ever-evolving view of the biological brain as it pertains to embodied human experience.
Review
The strength of Art and the Brain certainly lies in intriguing theoretical discussions of framing structures and visual foundations through the deep historical contexts of the neurosciences.
Frank W. Stahnisch ( Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 26:4, 436-437,
DOI: Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 26:4, 436-437.
Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 1)
The first in detail account that relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance.
In a 2005 review of Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths, John Danvers wrote:
“It is this kind of historical insight and connectivity which makes Innovation and Visualization such a stimulating text to read. With its combination of scholarship and lucidity, fascinating information and provocative argument, this lively and intelligent book will be welcomed by the academic community and by many general readers, who will enjoy Ione’s eloquent cross-fertilisation of ideas and her healthy disregard for disciplinary boundaries.” [Full review here]
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Amy Ione
Title: Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths
Date: 2005
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042016752
Catalog Number: 24148
Nature Exposed to Our Method of Questioning
Nature Exposed to our Method of Questioning explores how we create our cultural assumptions about nature, culture and ourselves.
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Tjotjok: Poetry by Jerry Bass. Illustrated by Amy Ione.
A collection of 86 poems by Jerry Bass, enhanced by Amy Ione’s original artwork.
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Potpourri
Autostereograms
Two autostereograms. One was created intuitively by Amy Ione using colored paper rectangles gathered using a punching device. The other is by Christopher W. Tyler, who invented the autostereogram.
Pisces
Two images also by Amy Ione and Christopher Tyler. One, on the left, is a black and white ink painting (on paper) that uses the astrological symbol for Pisces. The other is a Matrix algebra version that was computed in MatLab by Christopher W. Tyler
Barbara Angert (1927-2000)
Amy Over the Years
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