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Leonardo CripTech Incubator receives Ford Foundation's Art Futures Grant for its groundbreaking access work in art and technology

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, the 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.

Announcing the 2024-2025 Leonardo Imagination Fellows

As Leonardo celebrates our 5th year in partnership with Arizona State University, we are thrilled to announce the recipients of the third cohort of the Leonardo Imagination Fellowship, a virtual, global program developed in partnership between Leonardo-ASU and the Center for Science and the Imagination. This year, we received applications from 34 countries, reflecting a growing global interest in exploring Planetary Health Futures through experimental media

Future Fossils and Glaze Dreams

Using the Djerassi clay, I began to test out an idea that I had been thinking about for the last year. As part of my project Total Archive, I had conceptualized interspecies ghost creatures which would be amalgamated forms algorithmically generated from the IUCN Red List. I wanted to make negative impressions of these hybrid creatures as future fossils—remnants of our current endangered species for a speculative future. I made a few prototypes from the Djerassi clay for the Djerassi land.