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.

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. 

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.”

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.