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.

Constructive peer reviews are critical to Leonardo’s publication process. Leonardo relies on its expert peer reviewers to address work across disciplines with academic rigor and a sympathetic intelligence that provides our authors with insights that allow them to present their work as strongly and clearly as possible. This month we extend our gratitude and congratulations to the following for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication.

Matteo Bittanti is a media theorist, curator, writer, and artist whose work centres on video games and contemporary art. He directs the Milan Machinima Festival and curates the online platform VRAL. As a scholar, he has published widely on games, game-based art, and visual culture. He is associate professor of media studies at IULM University, dividing his time between Los Angeles and Milan.

Rafael Bresciani (São Paulo, Brazil, 1982) is a musician and journalist with an MA in Net Art and Digital Culture and a PhD candidate in Visual Arts and Technological Humanism at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brescia SantaGiulia (Italy). His research explores the intersections of art, media, communication, technology, and sound through a transdisciplinary approach. Addressing themes such as data infrastructures, ethics, human-computer interaction (HCI), power structures, and mass manipulation, his work investigates the relationship between artificial intelligence and language, focusing on how the massive mediation operated by digital systems is transforming human semiotic experience. His doctoral project examines the entanglements of theory and practice within the tension between technocratic and poetic languages, proposing a renewed critique of technology through the arts.