2025 Graduate Abstract Reviewers | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

This Year's Peer Reviewers

The following individuals are the 2025 Leonardo Graduate Abstract Peer Reviewers. Leonardo greatly appreciates their contribution to this year’s LGA peer review.

 

Greg Bruce is SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University who researches the friction between technology and instrumental performance. His “feedback saxophone” combines custom hardware with extended techniques to create a novel electroacoustic practice.

Antonio Irre Catalano is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, interweaving life sciences and art into performances, visual works, poems, short stories, and theater.

Hassan Choubassi is an artist and Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the Lebanese International University, and Director of the Institute of Visual Communication IVC. His research explores Generative AI, Posthuman aesthetics, and AI Psychic apparatus.

Mat Dalgleish is a researcher/educator working at the intersection of music and Human-Computer Interaction. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton (UK).

Wendy DesChene is a Metis artist who holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and investigates themes of identity and environment in her multi-layered practice that includes installation, performance, painting, and sculpture. Currently she is a Professor of Art at Auburn University. 

Johannes DeYoung is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. DeYoung is Assistant Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University.

Eugenia Fratzeskou is a visual artist, writer, editor, lecturer and critic. She is a visiting lecturer and critic at University of Westminster and AA School of Architecture.

Ismini Gatou is a researcher and artist working at the intersection of media studies, anthropology, and sound/locative media arts through research-creation methodologies. She holds a PhD in Cultural Technology & Communication (University of the Aegean) and is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Athens and the University of Thessaly.

Tracy Harwood is Professor of Digital Culture at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is director of the award-winning Art AI Festival and of the University's Usability Lab.

Tom Leeser is the Program Director of the Art and Technology Program in the School of Art and the Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.

Felipe Cesar Londono is an architect and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design. University Colombia and founding Director of International Image Festival. 

Antony Nevin (Massey University, New Zealand) bridges design and science through installations that explore microbial temporality, synthetic biology, and AI. His work making complex scientific concepts accessible has featured at Ars Electronica, SONAR+D, and Dublin’s Science Gallery.

Clarissa Ribeiro is an artist and researcher exploring cross-scale informational dynamics in morphogenetic and behavioral processes through the lens of performative technoetics. She is Chair of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks, founding and former Program Director of the Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts at the Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai, and Professor of Media Arts at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Martin Skrodzki is an assistant professor in the group of Computer Graphics and Visualization at TU Delft. His research interests include the use of illustrations in mathematics, high-dimensional data visualization, as well as interactions between mathematics and arts.

Editor-in-Chief,  Mary Anne Staniszewski is an art and cultural historian and is an associate professor in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Carloalberto Treccani is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing of Hong Kong Baptist University. His work explores the development of visually 'intelligent' machines and their implications on what we know and think on the ways we see the world.