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FOSTERING NEW TRAJECTORIES THAT BENEFIT KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND SOCIETY

Submitted by JD Talasek on Friday, 05/17/2024 12:40pm

 

I am honored and excited to join the Leonardo team as editor-in-chief of their prestigious journal. In 1968, Frank Malina first conceptualized the need for a journal that would make creative practitioners occupying the terrain between disciplines aware of the work of similar practices, to build communities of support and inspiration. This was necessary because the space between disciplines, as it turned out, was often cold and lonely, with many risking their careers and reputations by working outside of traditional academic structures

RECOGNITION OF LEONARDO’S OUTSTANDING PEER REVIEWERS

Submitted by Nick Cronbach on Wednesday, 05/08/2024 5:35pm

A quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers in our network for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication:

Naila Kuhlmann is a post-doctoral fellow in the BIAPT lab, and an associated researcher with the Center for Circus Arts Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer (CRITAC).

CYFEST 15: VULNERABILITY

Submitted by Leonardo Team on Thursday, 04/18/2024 3:16pm

Date: 22 April 2024, 5 PM
Where: Ca’Foscari, University of Venice

CYFEST 15: Venice is set to host a compelling panel discussion that delves into the multifaceted concept of vulnerability, drawing on insights from an exceptional group of thinkers and practitioners across the arts, sciences, technology, and design. This 90-minute event will take place at the historic Ca' Foscari University of Venice, in the Aula Mario Baratto (Mario Baratto Conference Hall) on the second floor.

FEI: FRONT END OF INNOVATION 2024

Submitted by Leonardo Team on Thursday, 04/18/2024 2:20pm

 

For over two decades, The FEI: Front End of Innovation conference has served as a pivotal arena for corporate innovators and R&D executives to connect, uncover new trends, and forge pathways for developing and delivering revolutionary products and services. With an illustrious history of hosting some of the brightest minds of the 21st century—including luminaries like Steve Wozniak, Clayton Christensen, and Malcolm Gladwell—FEI offers an unmatched platform for inspiration and transformative insights.

WATER IS POWER: GILA RIVER PROJECT

Submitted by Leonardo Team on Monday, 04/15/2024 12:56pm

 

Artist Joel Slayton and scientist Lisa Johanson team up to explore the complexities of the Gila River, one of America's most threatened ecosystems. This 649-mile long river, winding through New Mexico and Arizona, faces a multitude of challenges: climate change, ranching, agriculture, mining, and growing development. Despite these threats, the river persists, showcasing remarkable resilience.

NATURARCHY EXHIBITION

Submitted by Leonardo Team on Monday, 04/15/2024 12:42pm

Date: 24 May 2024 - 29 September 2024
Where: iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures - Brussels, Belgium

Organized and presented by Leonardo LASER hosts JRC Ispra and iMAL, the NaturArchy Exhibition promises a thought-provoking exploration of nature and our relationship with it. Running from May 24th to September 29th, 2024, NaturArchy utilizes art and science to delve into critical issues like deep ecology, sustainability, and the decolonization of nature.

ASU MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES SPRING SHOWCASE

Submitted by Leonardo Team on Monday, 04/15/2024 10:53am

 

On Friday, April 26, the School of Arts, Media and Engineering will host its second Media Arts and Sciences Spring Showcase. The showcase is open to the public, and visitors can expect to see innovative ideas, prototypes, demonstrations and artworks incorporating cutting-edge technologies that invite user interaction with fully developed video games and virtual reality experiences. This showcase is poised to exhibit the mission and charter of ASU while embodying the goals and values of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

FUTURE TENSE SYMPOSIUM 3.0

Submitted by Leonardo Team on Monday, 04/15/2024 10:46am

 

The Future Tense Symposium 3.0 will be the final installment in a series of discursive events organized around the fall 2024 exhibition, Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty, produced by the UCI Beall Center for Art + Technology as part of the 2024 Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative. Resident artists, guest scholars, and scientist collaborators will speak to intersections between intermedia art and the science of complex systems. 

GHOST__WORLD PREMIERE AT THE LAB IN SAN FRANCISCO

Submitted by leoisastuserone on Thursday, 04/11/2024 6:36pm

Date: 28 April 2024
Where: The Lab, San Francisco

This April at The Lab in San Francisco, our very own Director of Programs at Leonardo/ISAST, Vanessa Chang, will be featured as a guest speaker following the premiere of Jen Liu's latest dance creation, GHOST__WORLD. This groundbreaking piece for four dancers delves into the spectral existence of lives ensnared in the global machinery of technology, drawing from firsthand interviews with electronics and e-waste workers in South China.

The Mindful Mona Lisa: Bridges of Peace and Understanding

Submitted by Max Herman on Thursday, 03/21/2024 9:16am

Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620) is one of the most influential scientific texts of the early modern era.  Interestingly, in the context of this blog’s novel hypothesis that the Mona Lisa may be an allegory of “Esperienza” -- Italian for both experience and experiment -- Bacon’s tract uses the word “experience” over thirty times, including examples like this: 

  • “The foundations of experience (our sole resource) have hitherto failed completely or have been very weak; nor has a store and collection of particular facts, capable of informing the mind or in any way satisfactory, been either sought after or amassed.”
  • “(O)ur only hope is in the regeneration of the sciences, by regularly raising them on the foundation of experience and building them anew, which I think none can venture to affirm to have been already done or even thought of.”