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CRIPTECH METAVERSE LAB ARTIST COMMISSIONS TO PREMIERE AT GRAY AREA FESTIVAL OCT 2023
Date: 19–22 October 2023
Where: San Francisco, CA
Commissioned through the CripTech Metaverse Lab, a joint initiative with Gray Area, Melissa Malzkuhn’s Deaf Club, Indira Allegra’s Texere, and Nat Decker’s Touch each offer powerful new possibilities for creative accessibility in virtual reality. These works are being developed in partnership with HTC VIVERSE and New Art City and will premiere at Gray Area Festival, Plural Prototypes, in San Francisco. An experiment in creating collective access, the CripTech Metaverse Lab gathers a cohort of disabled creatives to experience immersive artworks, engage in critical discussions and speculative design processes. The cohort also includes Antoine Hunter, Maia Scott, Stephanie Sherriff, Andy Slater, Jennifer White-Johnson, Panteha Abareshi and Iris Xie. Learn more about the cohort.
Photo Credit: Victoire Poumadere. Courtesy of Gray Area
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LEONARDO @ DJERASSI OPEN STUDIOS
Date: 15 July 2023
Where: Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2325 Bear Gulch Road Woodside, CA 94062
Last chance to get your tickets to enjoy a stunning sculpture hike and experience a rare glimpse of transdisciplinary collaboration in the making in an unrivaled setting overlooking the California coast. Learn about the Djerassi Resident Artists Program projects at Synthesis in Motion: Art + Science in Nature, the annual Leonardo @ Djerassi Open Studios on 15 July. Get your tickets!
Photo Credit: Jason Lam
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THE COMPLEXITIES OF AI IN CREATIVE LANDSCAPE
Disruption 2.0, a recent event held at the ASU California Center, brought together a diverse group of writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and thought leaders to delve into the critical dilemmas surrounding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the entertainment industry. Focusing on issues such as creator rights, the event provided a platform for insightful discussions on the intersection of AI and creativity, urging for a better narrative that embraces technology while safeguarding artistic integrity. Read more.
Photo Credit: Charles Anderson
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EXPERIENCE THE NOISE AQUARIUM EXHIBITION
Date: 14 June 2023 – 3 January 2024
Where: Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City
Noise Aquarium [2016 – Present] will be at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City 14 June 2023 – 3 January 2024. First presented in London in summer 2022, the exhibition will be adapted to reflect local climate issues and solutions. Watch this 3D audio visual experience of plankton in noise pollution. Noise Aquarium utilizes 3D-scans of these micro creatures obtained with unique scientific imaging techniques and immerse the audience in the 3D ‘aquarium’ of diverse planktons projected as large as whales.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of UCLA ArtSci Center YouTube Channel
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISEA2024
Deadlines:
24 August 2023: Creative works
16 October 2023: Academic submissions
This open call is for the ISEA2024 academic conference which will reflect on the theme, Everywhen. Exploring the interrelations between place time and story through papers, panels, posters, demos, institutional presentations, artist talks, keynotes, performances, screenings and workshops, constituting a meeting point for artists, scientists, technologists and theorists to share their research and work. Submit your creative works and academic submissions now!
Photo Credit: Courtesy of International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: DESIGN + ART + SCIENCE
Deadline: 1 August 2023
The journal LA TADEO DEARTE welcomes research and reflection papers in any language. This open call invites you to share writings focused on reflection or possible actions that explore the encounters, the misencounters, and the exploration of interstices and common areas shared by design, art and science. The interweaving of knowledge, transdisciplinary thinking, and consilience can help us rethink what it means to build "a better world." You’re invited to share your concerns, your visions, or your proposals.
Learn more.
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THE CAA-GETTY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
Deadline: 15 August 2023
Getty has awarded CAA a grant to fund the CAA-Getty International Program for a thirteenth consecutive year, enabling twelve international visual arts professionals to accompany program alumni presenting at the 112th Annual Conference in Chicago in February 2024. Participants will receive funds for travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, conference registrations, and one-year CAA memberships. We encourage all international art historians and museum curators to apply!
Photo Credit: Stephen Fọlárànmí. Courtesy of the Ccollege Art Association of America (CAA)
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LET'S DARE TO CO-CREATE THE FUTURE?
Deadlines:
31 July 2023: Proposal submission (100–250 words)
31 October 2023: Final manuscript submission
From Artificial Intelligence to augmented wisdom: How can we co-create the future for a healthy planet? We invite you to submit proposals exploring this theme for publication in a special bilingual issue of Leonardo in collaboration with the Zhuangshi, Journal of Art and Design. We welcome submissions from all disciplines, theorists, historians, practitioners, and critics reflecting on this topic. Learn more.
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BIOPOLITICAL SCREENS: IMAGE, POWER, AND THE NEOLIBERAL BRAIN
In Biopolitical Screens, awarded the Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reality to video installation art. He presents a critical account of how images curate our minds and have merged with the neural tissues of our brains. |
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READ LEONARDO VOL. 56, NO. 4 OUT ON 1 AUGUST
Cover: Suk Kyoung Choi, The Drowned World triptych, series 001. (© Suk Kyoung Choi)
Leonardo Vol. 56, No. 4 is on the horizon! While available now is Leonardo Vol. 56, No. 3 sharing transdisciplinary articles such as the cover image from The AI Laocoön: Art and the Artificial Imagination, or Survival Aesthetics in the Anthropocene by Suk Kyoung Choi, and reviews: Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology by Roberta Buiani, Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory by Gregory F. Tague, and more. Find more articles here.
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LEONARDO REVIEWS
July 2023
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LASER TALKS IN ZÜRICH: FUTURE PLAN(T)S
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Future Plan(t)s Exhibition and Intervention
The future of our plants is one of humanity’s biggest challenges. On 29 August and 5 September, LASER Zürich will hold two public events in the context of the Future Plan(t)s exhibition, bringing together artists, theorists, and scientists to cultivate dialogue on plant communication, ethics, knowledge, and sustainability. Register here!
FIND ALL UPCOMING LASER TALKS LISTED HERE
 (CHINA)
"'TECHNOETICC AESTHETICS' Psiborgian Incursions"
14 July 2023, 5:00PM CST (UTC +8) Find out more
 (US)
"Bioart and Gender in the Americas"
30 July 2023, 11:00AM MDT (UTC -6) Find out more
 (SWITZERLAND)
"Future Plan(t)s"
29 August 2023, 6:30PM CEST (UTC +2); and
5 September 2023, 6:30PM CEST (UTC +2) Find out more
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