The Leonardo Abstracts Service is an evolving, comprehensive database of thesis abstracts (PhD, Master's and MFA) on topics at the intersections between art, science and technology. This English-language database was established at Pomona College (Claremont, CA), under the direction of editor-in-chief Sheila Pinkel. Each year, in addition to being published in the database, a selection of abstracts chosen by a peer review panel for their special relevance are published in a digest on our website.

The fifteen highest-ranking abstracts of 2022 will be published in Leonardo journal (see Vol. 56, No. 5, October 2023). We are pleased to present below the top-ranked thesis abstracts of 2022, and we congratulate the authors of the theses.

Highest-Rated Abstracts

• Bart Vandeput, "Baroa belaobara: berryapple."
• Mikhel Proulx, "Social Practice Before the Web: Networked Media in Canadian Art"
• Tilio Suorsa, "Becomings of Digital Poetry - the carrier of memory in slow media practice "
• Nicholas Holt, "The Radiant Unknown: Juan Downey's Aesthetics of Energy"
• Candida Borges, "TRANSEUNTIS MUNDI: A NOMADIC ARTISTIC PRACTICE"
• Alejandro Albornoz, "Voice and poetry as inspiration and material in acousmatic composition"
• Yuxiang Dong, "Repoliticizing the Depoliticized: Experimental Ethnography and Social Practice in Chinese Media Art"
• Majli af Ekenstam, "Digital Textiles: tactile expression in a virtual environment"
• Anna Rewakowicz, "Foggy Pursuit of Ethical Response-Ability: Art and Science of Collecting Water from Fog"
• Carmen Hull, "Building with Data: Bridging Architectural Design Practices and Information Visualization"
• Cornelia Erdmann, "On Lightscapes: Exploring the Aesthetics and Narrativities of Light and Colour in Contemporary Hong Kong"
• Rebecca Mott, "AI+ART: Illuminating the Black Box"
• Weidi Zhang, "A Speculative Assemblage: Design of Image-driven Interactive Experiences"
• Alexis Crawshaw, "Computational Paideia through the New Media Arts: Toward the embodiment of value, meaning, and holistic thinking in information"
• Rogerio Bordini, "Digitizing an Art Gallery - Process of Creation and Evaluation of the GAIA Virtual Platform"
• Mariia Zolotova, "The Worlds of Entanglements: Reflection on Posthumanist Ontologies within the Art&Science projects"