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 twelve highest-ranking abstracts of 2024 will be published in Leonardo journal (see Vol. 58, No. 4, August 2024). We are pleased to present below the top-ranked thesis abstracts of 2024, and we congratulate the authors of the theses.

Highest-Rated Abstracts

• Michael Chernoff, "VIDEOSPHERE: Video Surveillance of the Video Screen"
• Sarah Ciston, "Coding.Care: Guidebooks for Intersectional AI"
• Alexis Crawshaw, "Electro-Somaesthetic Music: spatial approaches, theorization and creative experiments"
• Matt Gorbet, "The Spatialized Digital Milieu: An Infrastructure Approach to the Design of Responsive Environments"
• Tom Poultney, "Making Internet Friends: The Meme Function"
• Be Andr, "Painting in the Age of Technological Reproducibility:Re-establishing Sensuousness via the Complexity of System ofEmergent Touch (SET)"
• Jack Armitage, "Subtlety and Detail in Digital Musical Instrument Design"
• Gilberto dos Santos Agostinho Filho, "The design of note-based algorithmic systems through the use of mental models"
• Xiaoqiao Li, "(Re)forming the Imprint: Using Digital Imaging Processes to Gain A New Perspective on Printmaking"
• Lotte Pet, "The Excess of Meaning. Developing an ethical attitude toward biological life through engaging with bioart"
• Vivien Roussel, "Morphogenesis of matter. Doctoral research on biomaterials (bacterial cellulose)"
• Constanza Salazar, "Embodied Digital Dissent: Coopting and Transforming Technologies in Art, 1990-present"