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Activating creativity to push the boundaries of today and unleash the possibilities of tomorrow. See also @lasertalks @asu.leonardo #SciArt #ArtTech
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OPEN CALL: Earth, Climate, and Planetary Imagination Environmental art has long engaged ecological awareness, but the climate emergency now demands new forms of planetary imagination and action. For the fourth installment of Leonardo’s 60th Anniversary Focus Sections, we’re seeking contributions exploring Earth, Climate, and Planetary Imagination: From Environmental Art to Planetary Axis We invite artists, scientists, technologists, and researchers to examine how art, science, and technology collaborations can contribute to climate literacy, environmental justice, and regenerative futures, grounded in both historical awareness and urgent contemporary realities. We welcome historical analyses, theoretical reflections, and practice-based research that move from representation to praxis, supporting not only ecological understanding but also processes of repair and healing within damaged planetary systems. Contributions should engage the ethical and emotional dimensions of ecological crisis, and show how integrative approaches generate new ways of knowing and acting within complex planetary systems. Topics may include environmental sensing, data visualization, field-based practices, speculative ecologies, and climate-centered health and wellbeing. Deadline: 15 December 2026 🔗 Submit your manuscript via the submission information on our website. Questions? Email editor@leonardo.info. #OpenCall #CallForPapers #Leonardo60 #LeonardoJournal #ArtAndScience #ArtScienceTechnology #EnvironmentalArt #ClimateArt #ClimateAction #EcoArt #SpeculativeEcologies #RegenerativeFutures #PlanetaryImagination #EnvironmentalJustice Open call for papers — deadline 15 December 2026 — for Leonardo journal themed "Earth, Climate, and Planetary Imagination," displayed in bold white text on a textured olive‑green background. by @leonardoisast
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What happens when an astrophysicist and an artist move beyond disciplinary boundaries to create together? In ART-SCIENCE UNDISCIPLINED, astrophysicist Natalie Gosnell and artist Janani Balasubramanian offer a practical and inspiring guide to collaboration. Drawing on their own experiences and those of fellow creators, they share tools for building meaningful partnerships, navigating institutional constraints, and imagining new possibilities for a more expansive future. Sponsored by UC Press. by @leonardoisast
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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 @leonardoisast
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What if flourishing doesn't resist entropy, but depends on it? In "Flourishing Through Entropy: A Dialectical Reimagining in Virtual Reality Ecological Art," artist and researcher Jaewook Lee revisits Earth art's monumental legacy through the lens of Mono-ha and his interactive VR artwork Toward Entropy (2025). Across four scenes, participants dismantle a gallery installation, topple a boulder, water wooden blocks into living trees, and climb to escape a rising flood, rehearsing what it means to work with change instead of against it. Watch the video, then read the full article in Leonardo Vol. 59, No. 4, part of the Focus section "Flourishing as Ongoingness and Collectivity." Link in bio. #LeonardoJournal #MITPress #VirtualReality #EcologicalArt #Entropy #ArtScienceTechnology by @leonardoisast
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Unclaimed bodies, autopsy portraits, and a duty of care: Michelle Stewart's curated exhibition puts contemporary art practice to work on the ethics of human remains—how they are classified, held, and shown—bringing artists, archaeologists, and forensic scientists into the same room. Find out more about "Art, Science, and the Deceased Body: Towards a Duty of Care" and explore other articles in our latest issue of Leonardo. Link in bio. Image credits: The Dance of Transcendence II, 2023-2024, mixed media on canvas, 120 × 200 cm. (© Anna Suwalowska. Photo: Anna Suwalowska.) Still from Rehearsal, 2021, HD video, loop, 10 min 30 sec. (© Anaïs Chabeur. Photo: Michelle Stewart.) Mortal Remnants, 2025, 3D-printed resin, each 10 × 10 cm in diameter. (© Michelle Stewart. Photo: Michelle Stewart.) Interconnected abstract faces made from flowing blue and white contour lines and repeated eye motifs on a brown-black background, evoking layered identities, overlapping perspectives, and shared emotion. by @leonardoisast
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Recording CripTech — Using the Archive How do you build an archive that documents disability-led creative practice while making accessibility part of its foundation, not an afterthought? Join Leonardo/ISAST and @a2ruconnect for a conversation exploring Recording CripTech, a digital archive capturing the collaborative work of disabled artists in residence with the Leonardo CripTech Incubator (2022–23). The archive launches publicly this fall on a2ru's Ground Works platform. Oct 2, 2026 · 1–2pm ET / 10–11am PT Moderated by Elizabeth McLain, with panelists Oliver Shuey, Liza Sylvestre, and Crystal Yin Lie Free and open to all — link in bio to register #CripTech #DisabilityArts #AccessibleArchives #ArtsAndTechnology Recording CripTech: Using the Archive. An archive of process by artists living with disabilities, remaking tech through the lens of access. Open webinar, 2 October 2026, 1-2pm ET / 10-11am PT. Logos: a2ru, Ground Works, Leonardo. by @leonardoisast
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"To Sand: An Assay" — a new poem by Jane Hirshfield paired with visual work by artist Francesca Samsel, featured in Leonardo's new issue focused on flourishing, guest-edited by Ryan McGranaghan, Renee Davis, and Nick Travaglini. The collaboration began by chance, at a National Academy of Sciences event where Hirshfield and McGranaghan met, and grew into a three-way conversation about working across science and art. The poem traces a single grain of sand through six billion years of transformation: pressed to stone, fractured to beach, swept to ocean, and back again. "Here, now, you are bedrock's interim bus stop... brushed from shoes, shaken from blankets before going home." Read the full piece in the new issue, out now via MIT Press. Link in bio. Nine scattered circles showing close-ups of natural, sedimentary imagery, ranging from strata to glass to clay to rock to wood, over a windswept sand background. by @leonardoisast
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OPEN CALL: Life as Medium The use of living systems as artistic and scientific media has raised profound questions about life, agency, responsibility, and care. For the third installment of Leonardo’s 60th Anniversary Focus Sections, we’re seeking contributions exploring Life as Medium: Bioart, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Entanglement We invite artists, scientists, technologists, and researchers to examine life not as an object, but as a relational process entangled with ethics, health, environment, and culture, drawing from both historical developments and emerging biotechnological practices. We welcome historical analyses, theoretical reflections, and practice-based research that engage biotechnology, medicine, ecology, and the arts. Contributions should address the ethical, social, and cultural implications of working with life, and articulate how transdisciplinary methods can open new forms of understanding and care. Deadline: 5 October 2026 🔗 Submit your proposal or completed manuscript via the submission information on our website. Questions? Email editor@leonardo.info. #CallForPapers #ArtScience #MediaArts #InterdisciplinaryResearch #BioArt Open call for papers poster announcing deadline 5 October 2026 for Leonardo’s special issue "Life as Medium: Bioart, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Entanglement" on a red, cell-like halftone textured background by @leonardoisast
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A dome projection translates the sounds of people, dolphins, and waves into light washing over the walls of Museu Nacional da República. A hammock with speakers woven into the netting surrounds you with dolphin calls and a soundscape that responds to your movement. A fisher recognizes the voices of his dolphin collaborators in underwater recordings. This is Resonant Waters, a project built around fishers and wild dolphins in southern Brazil, who have coordinated catches through mutual signals for generations. It is one of the last practices of its kind in the world, and scientists and conservationists have been working to protect it for years. Matheus Montanari, a 2025 Leonardo-ASU Imagination Fellow, created these immersive installations to investigate and celebrate this unique practice of interspecies knowledge. His work's resonance helped the practice earn formal legal protection, with the dolphins themselves recognized as holders of cultural heritage. Resonant Waters is one of the projects spotlighted in our 2025 Impact Report. To explore this and other stories of emergence, visit the report via the link in our bio. Video credit: Matheus Montanari, Beatriz Burigo, and Viviane Vedana Wispy projections on a giant dome. by @leonardoisast
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Leonardo/ISAST is proud to welcome LASER Talks Seoul to our global network of over 66 cities, hosted by Hongik University and chaired by Professor Jeeyoun Kim. The inaugural event, "Beyond the Screen: Visualizing the Invisible," brought together acclaimed animation filmmaker Erick Oh, moderator Professor Tak Hoon Kim (President, The Animation Society of Korea), and a room full of curious minds at H·PULSE in Mapo-gu. Check out the link in our bio to engage with LASER today. A dark auditorium with tiered seating full of audience members watching a lone speaker at a podium while a large projection displays a brightly lit hallway lined with framed posters. by @leonardoisast
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Yesterday’s amazing inaugural LASER talk at Experiment 29.. What’s AI ever done for you? A talk by Dr Betty Sargeant & Dr Bahareh Nakisa. Thanks to the speakers and all who attended, and co-chair Dr Andrea Rassell, and also to the Leonardo LASER network @hellosynaesthesia @bettysargeant @leonardoisast by @leonardoisast
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What if the machine generating your images could also warm your hands? In Volume 59, Issue 4 of Leonardo, Esther Rizo-Casado introduces Camilla_Horde, a project that installs a GPU inside a traditional Spanish heated table (mesa camilla), turning it into a shared computational system. Moved into public and cultural spaces, the table's residual heat draws people to sit together and generate images locally and collectively. Guided by a commitment to sustainable "perma-computing" practices and a desire to recover forms of collective life that technology has quietly displaced, Camilla_Horde reimagines the computer as something to gather around, not apart from. Visit the MIT Press link in our bio to discover the full issue of Leonardo Volume 59, Issue 4. Image Credit: © XenoVisual Studies, Madrid. Carousel image 1: Photo, Medialab Matadero | Sergio Papadopaulo. Carousel image 2: Photo, Bani Brusadin. Carousel image 3: Photo and 3D model, Daniel Pietrosemoli. A gloved hand fits a black CPU cooler into a clear acrylic geometric frame on a worktable, lit in pink and purple by @leonardoisast
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