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.

As a result of 50 years of publishing work on the cutting edge, Leonardo has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and, increasingly, the application and influence of the arts, design and humanities on science and technology.

Could this incredibly powerful image, created almost thirty years before the Mona Lisa, already include some of the allegorical, literary, and philosophical methods proposed by the “Esperienza allegory hypothesis”?

Shamsher Virk, formerly ZERO1’s Executive Director and current Senior Director for Programs & Operations at Leonardo, is stepping down. Having successfully overseen ZERO1’s integration into Leonardo, he closes a dynamic chapter for ZERO1. Virk reflects on his time leading ZERO1 and then joining the Leonardo leadership team.