Computerising Leonardo: a visual dialogue from 1988 to now

Abstract

I will begin with an excursus of computer vision techniques for exploring space in Renaissance paintings. I will then be looking at successive attempts in exhibitions and at one CD-ROM to use the dynamics of computer graphics to realise Leonardo’s underlying ideas and explore how his drawings may be set in motion as a form of public understanding. This is a visual exploration rather than one involving data-bases etc. and is in various ways rather different from most of the media art histories.