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Announcing the 2024-2025 Leonardo Imagination Fellows

As Leonardo celebrates our 5th year in partnership with Arizona State University, we are thrilled to announce the recipients of the third cohort of the Leonardo Imagination Fellowship, a virtual, global program developed in partnership between Leonardo-ASU and the Center for Science and the Imagination. This year, we received applications from 34 countries, reflecting a growing global interest in exploring Planetary Health Futures through experimental media

Future Fossils and Glaze Dreams

Using the Djerassi clay, I began to test out an idea that I had been thinking about for the last year. As part of my project Total Archive, I had conceptualized interspecies ghost creatures which would be amalgamated forms algorithmically generated from the IUCN Red List. I wanted to make negative impressions of these hybrid creatures as future fossils—remnants of our current endangered species for a speculative future. I made a few prototypes from the Djerassi clay for the Djerassi land.

TAMIKO THIEL AT LASTER TALKS: ARTS & SCIENCES

 

Image Credit: Courtesy of SIGGRAPH

We are excited to announce that Leonardo Contributor Tamiko Thiel will be a featured presenter on Wednesday, 31 July 2024, at LASER Talks Arts & Sciences: Telluride 2024. The tenth LASER in a series of twevle, this event will connect live with SIGGRAPH in Denver to explore the ecological economics of information. This promises to be an insightful session, highlighting Thiel's ongoing commitment to innovation and interdisciplinary dialogue.