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The SOCAP flagship conference brings together changemakers to break down silos, spark collaboration, and accelerate the vital work of individuals and organisations committed to global impact. 

Vote for 'LiftOff for the Inclusive Creative Economy' to help us center access and leadership for disabled, indigenous, and other underrepresented communities to drive impact innovation across arts, science, and technology.
 

What is the connection between artists, designers, and  social innovation for economic and job growth? Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology researchers in partnership with Leonardo will apply a framework for a new model of innovation, called da Vinci's Cube. Read more.

Dates: 2 May–2 June 2023

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The RCM GALERIE in Paris is pleased to present a group exhibition of groundbreaking work by early generation computer artists. These avant garde artists were encouraged to publish their work in the manner of scientists in the Leonardo journal founded in 1968 by the late artist engineer Frank Malina whose work will be exhibited during ISEA ’23 in Paris. Read more.

In the context of the Synapse Residency,  artist Anna Madeleine Raupach and astrophysicist Brad Tucker combine creative practice with observational astronomy to investigate the impact and potential mitigation strategies of human-caused space pollution. Raupach’s creative research journal can be found here.

Seize the Moment grantees re-imagine how we think, share and relate to waterways through collaborative meaning-making and game play. Read more.

Deadline: 30 June 2023

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Are you a recent graduate or an MA, MFA or PhD student working at the intersection of art, science, and technology? Submit your abstract to the Leonardo Graduate Abstracts (LABS) and make your thesis accessible to a wider international community of emerging artists, scholars, and theorists. Find out more and submit here!

Leonardo Just Accepted publishes recently accepted manuscripts online in anticipation of their publication in Leonardo journal. Among the manuscripts that have been published ahead of print to the Leonardo Just Accepted page of the MIT Press website are the following. 

Submissions by M. Afdile; C. Treccani; J. Lehmann, R. Garber Cole, and N.E. Stern; R. Arar; A.M. Royston; P. Liu et al.; H.  Pokojna; D.G. Berezan and C.I. Karageorghis; Z. O’Reilly et al.; E. Salvaggio; N. Kuhlmann et al.; Howard Riley. Read more.

Leonardo Book Series presents the first comprehensive history of film at the Bauhaus published in English . The book explores practices that experimented with film as an adaptable, elastic “polymedium.” 

With Design in Motion, Laura Frahm proposes an alternate history of the Bauhaus—one in which visual media, and film in particular, are crucial to the Bauhaus's visionary pursuit of integrating art and technology. Buy from MIT Press!

Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks, a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists, and technologists together for informal presentations, performances, and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to contribute to regional cultural environments by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community-building in over 50 cities worldwide. Find out more
 

Date: 15 April 2023

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In the framework of the retrospective exhibition The Artwork As A Living System, Dr. Elio Tuci, AI researcher, will join artists Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau for a participatory conversation on the intersection of biology, technology, and art presented by LASER Brussels at IMAL. Publication by Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press.

Doors open at 6 p.m. CET for a guided tour by the artists and followed by a screening tribute to maestros Karin Ohlenschlaeger and Peter Weibel. Can’t be there in person? The event will be livestreamed. Read more.

Operating and cooperating on different continents, four LASER Chairs Anna Frants, Janine Randerson, Alexandra Dementieva, and Natalia Kolodzei will share their experiences archiving and documenting new media. They will delve into their search for a sustainable global platform for archiving processes and ways of collaboration among transnational institutions. Read more.

Deadline: 30 April 2023

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The residency »Algorithmic Poetry« looks at how sound may poetically speak with algorithms and networks. For the nineteenth call for web residencies, Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Digital Solitude program is collaborating with Liquid Architecture to support radical interdisciplinary experimentation offering a platform for artists working with sound—from our everyday data-driven world to the dissonant, beat-driven resonant sounds that defy definition. Apply here!

Deadline: 2 May 2023

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Computational creativity is the art, science, philosophy, and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviors that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. ICCC ’23 will take place 19–23 June 2023 at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. To submit your short paper, read here.

Deadline:15 May 2023

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Hungry EcoCities is launching the first open call for artists! Are you an artist who combines technology and art to explore digital questions and investigate the future of food? The goal is to experiment, together with the selected applicants, and come up with solutions for the future of food through a more healthy, sustainable, responsible, and affordable agri-food system enabled by AI. Apply here.

Deadline: 21 May 2023

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Cavendish Arts Science is seeking adventurous artist whose practice resonates with the ethos of questioning, collective imagining, and decentering. The selected artist will bring alternative ways of knowing the world, artistic practices immersed in communities that are not privileged in the mainstream, and an enthusiasm to collectively imagine new possibilities. Apply here!

The irony of artificial intelligence is that it inspires new perspectives on human intelligence. The MIT Museum shines light on the tremendous promise, unforeseen impacts, and everyday misconceptions of AI in this riveting, interactive exhibition. Read more.

DigitalFUTURES introduces a free AI tutorial course. Several of the world's top AI designers have joined forces to create the world's first FREE comprehensive AI for designers course. This course begins with an introductory level and progresses to a more advanced level. Watch here!

NaturArchy science-art residencies are taking place in the framework of the Joint Research Center (JRC) SciArt project of the European Commission. The residencies provide space, time and conditions for the 15 participating artists, JRC scientists, and EC policymakers to come together, exchange, explore, collaborate, and co-create transdisciplinary projects and artworks around issues of deep ecology, sustainability and the decolonization of nature. Read more.