Yesterday was our first full day at Djerassi. Danny Goldberg took us on a hike in the mid-afternoon. We departed from the Artist's Barn and walked a loop trail.

Along the way, we stopped at the many different artworks made by previous residents and Danny explained the botanicals along the pathway. The poison oak was especially evocative, with its many forms, shape-changing along the trail—from light green matte semi-translucent leaves in wispy singular growths to thick dark green oily leaves in tall dense bushes to bright red leafy lines.

Leonardo is honored to announce Mary Anne Staniszewski and Yiannis Colakides as the new coordinators/editors of the Leonardo Graduate Abstracts (LGA). This program, a crucial part of the Leonardo Educators and Students initiative, features a comprehensive database of graduate thesis abstracts at the intersection of arts, sciences, and technology. The abstracts cover diverse fields such as visual arts, sound, performing arts, computer sciences, and other technological disciplines, focusing on philosophical, historical, critical, or applied science and technology aspects in the arts. Initiated at Pomona College, the English-language database aims to spotlight interdisciplinary work often overlooked in existing theses repositories.

As the International Symposium for Electronic Art (ISEA2024) shapes its engaging program for the upcoming conference in Brisbane, Australia, it’s with great pride that we spotlight three exemplary artists from the Leonardo community who will grace the event as keynote speakers. Cristóbal Martínez and Kade Twist, Leonardo Artist Fellows also known as the visionary duo behind Postcommodity, along with Tiare Ribeaux, our esteemed Leonardo Exchange Lead Artist, are set to illuminate the minds of attendees with their groundbreaking works and thought-provoking insights.

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).