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 ten highest-ranking abstracts of 2023 will be published in Leonardo journal (see Vol. 57, No. 5, October 2024). We are pleased to present below the top-ranked thesis abstracts of 2023, and we congratulate the authors of the theses.

Highest-Rated Abstracts

• Yiannis Colakides
• Caterina Antonopoulou
• Emily Lawhead
• Stelios Manousakis, "Hertzian Fields: Exploring WiFi Microwave Signals as a Spatial and Embodied Sensing Medium for Art"
• Hamilton Mestizo, "Transdisciplinary artistic production from the field of biology and technology in the second decade of the 21st century"
• Oliver Palmer
• Noor Stenfert Kroese, "ECOLOGY OF ENCOUNTERS - Meeting spaces for humans and non-humans in media art"
• Abram Stern
• Kristina Tica, "COMPUTATIONAL AESTH-ETHICS: Understanding visual computation processes between the image and its context"
• Elia Vargas