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Passing the Torch: Welcoming Kevin Hamilton and Honoring Sean Cubitt

Submitted by Diana Ayton-Shenker on Wednesday, 08/27/2025 12:54pm
Image Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
 
Today marks a significant milestone for the Leonardo Book Series as we welcome new leadership while celebrating a legacy of excellence.

I'm thrilled to share that Kevin Hamilton has been appointed as our new Editor-in-Chief. Kevin brings an expansive curiosity and a gift for navigating complexity—qualities at the heart of Leonardo's mission.

Recognition of Leonardo’s Outstanding Peer Reviewers

Submitted by Nick Cronbach on Tuesday, 08/12/2025 10:02am

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.

Diana Domingues (1947-2025) by Pat Badani

Submitted by Nick Cronbach on Thursday, 06/12/2025 4:25pm

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.

WELCOMING LEONARDO'S NEWEST EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Submitted by Sophie Fouladi on Thursday, 06/12/2025 12:38pm

Leonardo/ISAST is delighted to welcome two outstanding new members to our Editorial Advisory Board: Dr. Hannah Star Rogers and Dr. R. Benjamin Knapp. Each brings a unique and visionary perspective that will help shape Leonardo’s editorial direction and further our mission to build bridges between the arts, sciences, and technology. We are grateful for their thought leadership, deep expertise, and commitment to fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and creative inquiry.

The Mindful Mona Lisa: "Scrittura Infinita" and Scrittura Tessile

Submitted by Max Herman on Monday, 03/31/2025 9:51pm

 

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.

Open Call for Participants: Leonardo CripTech AI Lab 2025

Submitted by jasonlam on Friday, 03/21/2025 10:50am

 

Leonardo CripTech Incubator is an art and technology program for disability innovation.  Encompassing labs, workshops, fellowships, presentations, publication, and education, this innovation incubator is a community platform for disabled artists to engage and remake creative technologies through the lens of accessibility. Employing a broad understanding of technologies, including prosthetic tools, neural networks, software, and the built environment, CripTech Incubator reimagines enshrined notions of how a body-mind can move, look, communicate. 

Postcommodity’s Cosmovisión Torneo de la Bahia premieres at SFMOMA in partnership with Leonardo/ISAST

Submitted by jasonlam on Friday, 02/28/2025 3:43pm

 

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.