We are saddened by the loss of Diana Domingues, Brazilian artist, theoretician, and educator, who passed away on June 5. Diana Domingues (1947-2025) forged works that sought the naturalization of technology, hybridizing daily rituals, mixed reality, and the bio-cybrid body. She was interested in developing hermeneutic and metaphorical proposals of interactive complex systems that addressed the conditions, limits, and possibilities of human-machine symbiosis in the 21st century.

Carlo Vecce, acclaimed author and scholar(link is external) featured in Ken Burns’ film about Leonardo, has used the phrase(link is external) “scrittura infinita(link is external)” (infinite writing) to describe the rich complexity of text, drawing, design, and thought which Leonardo integrated so organically in his notebooks.

In March 2025, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will host the world premiere of Cosmovisión Torneo de la Bahia—a groundbreaking interactive digital art project by the Indigenous interdisciplinary collective Postcommodity – supported by the Native Arts and Culture Foundation, as well as a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission in partnership with Leonardo/ISAST, a global leader in fostering intersections between art, science, and technology.

We are proud to announce the fellows Olivia Ting, Antonella Mazzoni, and Selwa Sweidan + Vanessa Cruz to  the Touch Aesthetics Fellowship, a partnership between Arizona State University’s Narrative & Emerging Media Program and Leonardo CripTech Incubator! Based at the Haptics for Inclusion lab at the ASU California Center Broadway in Los Angeles, this 3-month fellowship is dedicated to the research and creative exploration of the intersections between haptics and disability. Harnessing innovative haptic technologies such as gloves, vests, and tactile actuators, fellows will employ the transformative power of touch to reimagine new possibilities for learning, creativity and accessibility in immersive storytelling.