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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.

Charting New Waters and Cyberspaces: 2025 Leonardo-ASU Grants for Transformative Futures

Submitted by Jennifer Strickland on Thursday, 02/13/2025 10:39am

 

The Leonardo-ASU Planetary Health Research Seed Grants support innovative, transdisciplinary projects that advance creative solutions to global challenges, fostering collaboration between the arts, sciences, and technology. We are thrilled to announce the two selected projects for 2025: "CYBOTAGE" and "Reservoirs for Water Futures."

Announcing the 2025 Touch Aesthetics Fellows

Submitted by jasonlam on Wednesday, 02/12/2025 11:30am

 

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. 

Leonardo CripTech Incubator receives Ability Central’s 2025 Communication Access Grant for its groundbreaking career, leadership, and access work in art and technology

Submitted by jasonlam on Wednesday, 02/12/2025 11:11am

 

Launched in 2021, Leonardo's CripTech Incubator promotes diversity across the arts and technology by providing an innovation platform for artists with disabilities to remake creative technologies through an accessibility lens. Leveraging labs, fellowships, residencies, workshops, and exhibitions, CripTech Incubator reimagines how a body-mind can move, look, and communicate by employing a broad understanding of technologies, including prosthetic tools, neural networks, software, and the built environment.

Recognition of Leonardo’s Outstanding Peer Reviewers

Submitted by Nick Cronbach on Tuesday, 01/21/2025 1:15pm

 

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.