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Leonardo #Art #Science Evening Rendezvous. An international speakers series from @leonardoisast and global partners.
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Focus Section: The Chimeric Mind Leonardo, Vol. 59, Issue 5, 2026 - The Chimeric Mind Clarissa Ribeiro, Roy Ascott - Technoetic Ecologies of Another AI: Play, Process, and the Post-Biological Imagination Claudia Westermann - Interspecies Interfaces in Artistic Contexts: Forest Signals as the Basis for Ecosystemic Intelligence Cesar Baio, Lucy HG Solomon - Data as Landed Property Daniela Rosner, Hanna Barakat, Jeffrey Basoah, Amelia Dogan, Sucheta Ghoshal - Decolonial Contingencies in Artificial Intelligence–Generated Images and Landscapes Matheus Montanari, Gilbertto Prado - Entangled Visions: Cocreativity and Biomimicry in Contemporary AI Art Rewa Wright, Gavin Sade - The Chimeric Entity: Narratives and Algorithms in Hybrid Ecology Laura Beloff I’m delighted to share that the new issue of Leonardo (Vol. 59, Issue 5, 2026) is now out, featuring The Chimeric Mind, a Focus Section I had the pleasure of guest-editing together with my dear friend and mentor, Roy Ascott. The contributions examine a question that has become increasingly urgent: How should we understand intelligence in a world where biological, computational, and ecological systems are deeply entangled? We extend our admiration and gratitude for the generosity of Leonardo’s Editor-in-Chief, J. D. Talasek, and Senior Editor Nick Cronbach, with whom I had the pleasure of working over many months to frame this very special and timely conversation. Our gratitude also goes to all the contributing authors whose ideas and perspectives made The Chimeric Mind possible. The issue opens with J. D. Talasek’s “Issue Welcome” and also features Diana Ayton-Shenker’s “Reflections on the Leosphere: A Chimeric Moment,” beautifully extending the conversation around this chimeric moment and its implications. Leonardo, Vol. 59, Issue 5, 2026 - https://leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/59/5 by @lasertalks
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This Thursday night 7pm @stanford - an evening of @lasertalks @davideagleman “What will AI mean for Artists?” @kathy_aoki_artist “Art Attacks: Critical Wit in Absurd Times” JayMcClelland “Shared Strengths and Weaknesses of Real and Artificial Minds” - Sept 24, 7pm LiKaShing building Stanford University Free parking (link in bio) - - - #aiart #aiexpert #davideagleman #kathyaoki #jaymcclelland taken in Stanford University by @lasertalks
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@arselectronica celebrating @jillianscott84 book launch 🙌🏻 photo by laurent mignonneau taken in Ars Electronica by @lasertalks
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Celebrating the strength of our community at Ars Electronica 2026 @arselectronica - Piero Scaruffi, Victoria Vesna @victoriavesna and Clarissa Ribeiro @clarissa__ribeiro - The LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) series was started by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi @scaruffipiero in january 2008 in San Francisco as a local forum for presenting art and science projects underway in the Bay Area. taken in Ars Electronica by @lasertalks
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🍽 You Are What You Digest - An Art & Science Dinner What happens when we think of the body not as a closed system, but as a site of continuous exchange? LASER Talks Bucharest brings together Thomas Feuerstein (AT) and Simona Deaconescu (RO) for an evening exploring metabolism, transformation, contamination and coexistence where biological processes become ways of thinking about culture, technology, ecology and our relationships with other forms of life. Rather than a conventional lecture, You Are What You Digest unfolds as a shared dinner and conversation, bringing the subject of metabolism directly into the experience itself. The evening is chaired by Natalia Marin and Alex Radu and realized with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum. EVENT INFO 📅 5 September 2026, 7:00 PM 📍 /SAC @ Malmaison, Atelierele Malmaison, Calea Plevnei 137C, Bucharest 🎟️ Registration required - places are limited and confirmed individually. Hosted and supported by /SAC as part of LASER Talks Bucharest. #LaserTalks #youarewhatyoudigest #artandscience #contemporaryart #Bucharest #sacbucharest #malmaison Image: Welt als Tastatur, 1996. Farbfotografie, 150 × 100 cm. by @lasertalks
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🤖 What’s AI ever done for you? Join us for the inaugural LASER Talk in Melbourne: What’s AI ever done for you? A decade-long descent into machine learning. Over the past decade, AI has transformed how we think about creativity, authorship and collaboration. But who controls these systems and what happens when the technologies shaping culture are concentrated in the hands of a few global companies? Featuring Dr Betty Sargeant and Dr Bahareh Nakisa, and chaired by Dr Andrea Rassell & Dr Chris Henschke, this conversation will explore AI through art, research and human–machine interaction, asking how artists and researchers can help us navigate its rapidly expanding role in society. EVENT INFO 📅 Wednesday, 9 September 2026 ⏰ 6–7 PM AEST 📍 Experiment 29, 29 Sydney Road, Coburg, Melbourne 💻 Hybrid: in person + online via Zoom 🎟️ Event details & registration: https://leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?id=1061&reset=1 Presented by Experiment 29 as part of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks, bringing artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for interdisciplinary conversation. Betty Sargeant, Betty Sargeant AI: LIVE, 2025. Live performance, 20 minutes. Photo: G-Artience Festival. #LaserTalks #ArtificialIntelligence #machinelearning #digitalart #artandtechnology #creativeart #melbourne #experiment29 #leonardoisast by @lasertalks
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🎬 LASER Talks Seoul launches this September! Join us for the inaugural LASER Talks Seoul: Beyond the Screen – Visualizing the Invisible, featuring internationally acclaimed animation filmmaker and artist *Erick Oh*. From OPERA to VR and media art, Erick Oh’s work pushes animation beyond conventional storytelling - giving visual form to memory, emotion, society, and the complexities of human experience. The evening will explore the evolving relationship between animation, art, technology, and visual expression - and ask what remains distinctive about artistic vision as the tools of image-making rapidly change. EVENT INFO 📅 September 9, 2026 🕖 7:00–8:00 PM KST 📍 #B2 H-Stage, H·PULSE, 97 Wausan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 🔗Event details & registration: https://leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1066 Join us for the inaugural LASER Talks Seoul and discover new perspectives on animation, artistic expression, and the evolving role of technology in visual culture. #lasertalks #laserseoul #leonardoisast #erickoh #animation #artandtechnology #mediaarts #digitalart #seoul #hongikuniversity by @lasertalks
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LASER Talk CYLAND #50: Hybrid Ecologies: Natura Naturans at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice The panel brought together Silvia Burini, Alan Boldon (@alanboldon), Carla Gannis (@carlagannis), and Alexandra Dementieva (@alexandradementi), moderated by Natalia Kolodzei (@kolodzei), for a conversation on ecology, artificial intelligence, hybrid environments, and the evolving relationships between human and non-human systems. Presented within the international Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks program, this milestone 50th edition of LASER CYLAND explored the intersections of art, science, technology, and ecology through the perspectives of artists, curators, and scholars. As part of CYFEST 17: Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape, on view at @creavenice through August 31, 2026 @cafoscari @dfbc.cafoscari @csarvenezia @lasertalks — ph: @jacopobosch by @lasertalks
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LASER Talks São Paulo – June 2026 World-Saving as Radical Imagination: Science Fiction, Bioart, and Experimental Arts in Times of Planetary Crisis Inspired by Octavia Butler’s vision of speculative fiction as a space for radical imagination, this edition of LASER São Paulo explores how contemporary art, bioart, and experimental practices can help us imagine alternative ecological, technological, and social futures. Can artistic imagination become a tool for planetary care? How might artists, scientists, and researchers contribute to new forms of coexistence between human, technological, and more-than-human worlds? Join us for an evening of presentations and conversations on bioart, ecological aesthetics, speculative design, performance, data visualization, and hybrid artistic-scientific practices. Invited Speakers: Alessandra Vetorazzi · Ana Passos · Belize Neves · Carla Lombardo · Corina Ishikura · Enzo Caramori · Estelle Flores · Henrique Oliveira · Joana Barreto · Maíra Vaz Valente · Pablo Lozano · Queli Martins · Roberta Naufal Hosted by the Department of Fine Arts (CAP), School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo (USP). LASER São Paulo Chairs: Clarissa Ribeiro (USP) & Tania Fraga (UnB) @clarissa__ribeiro @taniafraga_atelie #LASERTalks #LeonardoISAST #ArtScience #Bioart #ScienceFiction OctaviaButler EcologicalIntelligence ExperimentalArt ContemporaryArt USP ECAUSP TechnoeticArts SpeculativeFutures taken in Escola de Comunicações e Artes - ECA USP by @lasertalks
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Laser talks alert!! 🚨 12.03, 19h This event brings together different approaches to experiences and phenomena that do not easily fit established categories of knowledge, including certain UFO sightings, telepathic experiences, and some therapeutic effects that remain unexplained. Rather than seeking to validate, explain, or resolve them, attention is given to how such phenomena are lived, described, and interpreted within specific historical, social, and epistemic contexts. Attention is also given to practices of inquiry, description, and interpretation, and to the ways uncertainty can open new perspectives on knowledge and coexistence. Beyond questions of validity, the focus extends to the conditions under which certain experiences become audible, ignored, or disqualified, pointing to the cognitive, social, and democratic dimensions of knowledge practices, and to a plurality of experiences that cannot be reduced to a single framework. with the participation of: Claire Williams @claire_wiwi , Clémence Hébert @clemencehbrt , Prof. Dr. Katrin Solhdju Moderated by: @frank__theys Organised by: @alexandradementi Photo: "Ondoscope", Claire Williams 2019-2020 More info in our website by @lasertalks
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LASER São Paulo - Chimeric Bodies and Machine Hauntologies December 8th 2025 - Monday afternoon/evening Local: Lupe Cotrim Auditorium, School of Communication and Arts main building - Professor Lúcio Martin Rodrigues Avenue, 443, University Town, Sao Paulo, Brazil Theme: Chimeric Bodies and Machine Hauntologies Chairs: Clarissa Ribeiro and Tania Fraga This edition of LASER Talks São Paulo gathers two remarkable voices whose practices inhabit the porous borderlands between embodiment, technology, affect, and the spectral dynamics of contemporary media ecologies: Dr. Dalila Honorato (Ionian University, Greece) and Carolina Sudati a.k.a. Translúcida Bruta (Brazil). This encounter explores a sensorial, semiotic, and ontological infrastructure for navigating emergent forms of hybrid existence—where machinic hauntologies, algorithmic phantasmagoria, and the aesthetics of the cybernetic gothic converge with visceral bodies, ritual gestures, and the politics of becoming-other. Dalila Honorato brings her long-standing research on embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny, and the liminal tensions between phobia and paraphilia—work that has shaped international discourses through projects such as Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science and FEMeeting. Her perspective unveils how contemporary chimeric and hybrid forms—both biological and computational—reconfigure the thresholds of identity, intimacy, and epistemic risk in a world saturated with machinic intelligence. Carolina Sudati (Translúcida Bruta) expands this terrain through her corporeal investigations at the interface of wearable devices, ritualistic movement, and the transmutation of psycho-emotional constraints into kinetic expansion. Her performative research unfolds across vegetal hacking, mineral ecologies, neo-extractivist residues, and trance-based practices that illuminate the raw material hauntings of the post-industrial body. featured speaker' photo credits: Dalila Honorato, photo by Dalila Honorato; Translúcida Bruta: Woman–Plant–Machine Experiment, Photo by Mayra Azzi taken in Escola de Comunicações e Artes - ECA USP by @lasertalks
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LASER Talks São Paulo | Theme: Nosy Artificial Date: Monday, December 1st, 2025 Location: Room C6 – Computer Graphics Classroom Department of Fine Arts, Building 5 School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo, Brazil Chaired by: Prof. Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro Department of Fine Arts, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo This edition of LASER Talks São Paulo, titled “Nosy Artificial”, gathers international voices from media theory, digital culture, and experimental art to explore the affective, political, and perceptual tensions at the interface between humans and machines. Rooted in the conceptual terrain of The Wrong Biennale's noisyPOPcorner – Frictious Self Embassy, the talk welcomes noise not as error but as excess - a zone of encounter where human subjectivity diffracts through code, gesture, and synthetic systems. From AI-driven generation to wearable devices, from performance studies to generative design, the dialogue centers on frictions—those dissonances where art, motion, and intelligence co-evolve. Invited Speakers: • Leonardo Foletto leofoletto Researcher and professor of digital culture and artificial intelligence at the Department of Communications and Arts (CCA), ECA/USP, Brazil leofoletto.info • Andrea Sick @andreasick2 Professor of Media and Cultural History and Theory at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK), Germany. hfk-bremen.de – Andrea Sick • Bruno Moreschi bruno_moreschi Visual artist and professor of new media at Aalto University, Finland brunomoreschi.com • Gabriel Pereira @gabrielopereira_ Researcher and professor of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands gabrielpereira.net This event is part of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks global network—fostering conversations across art, science, and technology. taken in Escola de Comunicações e Artes - ECA USP by @lasertalks
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