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EXPERIMENTS IN ART, ACCESS, AND TECHNOLOGY (E.A.A.T.) EXHIBITION
Date: 30 September 2023–13 January 2024
Where: Beall Center for Art + Technology, U.C. Irvine
Invoking the field’s ethos of experimentation and collaboration, Experiments in Art, Access and Technology, or E.A.A.T. prototypes a new program that links communities, institutions, and ways of knowing through practices of creative access. This exhibition will introduce methods in art and technology that arise from—and viscerally embody— lived experiences of disability. Learn more.
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DIANA’S CONVERSATION WITH DR. JANE GOODALL
How can humans learn from and work with interconnected ecosystems and different forms of intelligence to make a positive impact? Diana Ayton-Shenker, the CEO of Leonardo/ISAST, led a beautiful conversation with renowned chimpanzee expert, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall, at Opal Group on July 12, 2023. Watch the video interview here.
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2023 ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL
Date: 6–10 September 2023
Where: POSTCITY Linz, Bahnhofpl. 12, 4020 Linz, Austria
At Ars Electronica 2023, Leonardo will organize two workshops: “CripTech Lab: Metaverse Reclaimed” and “Our Future Life in Lower Earth Orbit (L.E.O.)” with our partners from Our Future Life (OFL) project. In conjunction with the Meteor Studio at ASU, Leonardo will also organize the exhibition, ConstellationXR by artist William T. Ayton. Read more here.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ars Electronica
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CY-FEST 15: VULNERABILITY
Date: 2–18 September 2023
Where: HayArt Cultural Center, Yerevan Botanical Garden, Institute for Contemporary Art (I.C.A. Yerevan), Yerevan, Armenia
CYFEST-15 in Yerevan is dedicated to (anti)fragility of human and non-human body, biological, social and cyberspaces, stories and scenarios of the future, and confrontations and relationships with a world in transition. The organizer of CYFEST, one of the biggest international media art festivals in Eastern Europe, is CYLAND, a Leonardo Partner. Learn more about CYFEST-15 or how to become a Leonardo Institutional Member.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of CYLAND MediaArtLab and CYLAND Foundation Inc.
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LEONARDO JOURNAL х CYFEST SPECIAL ISSUE
Leonardo, Volume 55, Issue 6 is an entirely bilingual English-Russian special issue of Leonardo in collaboration with the CYLAND Media Art Lab. This summer, it was presented at the National Arts Club in New York. This special issue of Leonardo accompanied the 2022 CYLAND 14th International Festival of Media Art CYFEST, featuring international contributions exploring the theme fermentation through the dual lenses of art and science, and the extensive metaphorical possibilities that the theme offers.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of CYLAND MediaArtLab and CYLAND Foundation Inc.
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THE CONCLUSION OF SEIZE THE MOMENT
Seize the Moment (STM), a dynamic collaboration between Leonardo-ASU, the Humanities Lab, and the Global Futures Laboratory, has successfully concluded its two-year journey with remarkable achievements. Throughout this transformative period, the collective efforts of Seize the Moment inspired and propelled innovative experiments in learning, interdisciplinary research, and public engagement, all aimed at tackling the most pressing challenges of our time. View the STM Final Report.
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LEONARDO/ISAST CAA AFFILIATE SOCIETY ROUNDTABLE
Deadline: 11 August 2023
Moving away from abstract thinking, history, and theory, this call for proposals to the Leonardo community welcomes artists, historians, scientists, curators, and scholars to discuss case studies and exemplars. Why do certain organisms, ideas, and organizations alike bloom, while others atrophy or expire? Submit a short proposal to be considered for the Leonardo/ISAST CAA Affiliate Society Roundtable, "Weave Hybridity: Evolving Transdisciplinary, Transgenerational, and Transcultural Bridging."
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ART THAT RE-IMAGINES COMMUNITY AND THE COMMONS IN THE VACUUM OF OUTER SPACE
Deadline: 31 August 2023
Outer Space has become a beleaguered frontier replete with conflicts of goals and ideology. Can art help change this trajectory? Given that the problems we face on earth have become planetary—a global environmental crisis, and also a global inequality crisis—the proposed CAA 2024 panel asks how art (through stories, images, sound and curation) can address these collective problems to help ensure they are not repeated in our age of space exploration and coming extraterrestrial habitation. Submit now.
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2023 MARITIME ART PRIZE & EXHIBITION
Deadline: 8 September 2023
This year marks the 21st milestone of the Mission to Seafarers’ Maritime Art Prize & Exhibition, which continues to foster the profound relationship between humanity and the sea through the power of art. You're invited to explore the theme, "The Relationship of Humanity to the Sea," as you compete for a total prize pool of $25,000. Apply now.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Mission to Seafarers - Victoria
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$1,800 INNOVATE GRANTS FOR ART + PHOTO
Deadline: 14 September 2023
Innovate Grant has introduced newly increased award amounts of $1,800, two of which will be awarded each quarter to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, eight honorable mentions (four in art and four in photo) will be featured on their site. Apply now.
Photo Credit: Innovate Grant Recipient in Photography – Brian Van Lau (detail of Prodigal's Father Voyage, 2023). Courtesy of Innovate Grant
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ICMS 2024: NEOMEDIEVALISM AND NEW MEDIA ROUNDTABLE
Deadline: 15 September 2023
This roundtable discussion seeks participants interested in discussing how the pressing topics of imagined medievalism in popular culture, hierarchies and power dynamics in technology, and new media art intersect. Learn more and submit a proposal.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies
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CREATIVE INVESTMENT FELLOWSHIP 2023
Deadline: 17 September 2023
The Helpmann Academy Creative Investment Fellowships are valued at up to $10,000 and aim to fund significant opportunities designed to assist emerging creatives with ambitious projects and professional development programs to transform practices and provide a launchpad for burgeoning careers. Submit your application here.
Photo Credit: Behind the scenes with Mark Curtis and the Flannelettes. Courtesy of the Helpmann Academy
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PLANETARY HEALTH SEED GRANTS
Opening Date: 18 August 2023
Ignite change (justice, equity, and access) through creativity and collaboration with Leonardo-ASU Planetary Health Seed Grants! Eligible initiatives must be led or co-led by ASU faculty from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts or the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and pioneer art-science leadership for a sustainable future. Check Leonardo’s Opportunity Hub on August 18th for more information.
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AVAILABLE NOW: LEONARDO VOL. 56, NO. 4
Cover: Xiaojing Yan, Lingzhi Girl #18, 2021, cultivated lingzhi, wood chips, and mycelium from Yan’s article “Mythical Mushrooms: Hybrid Perspectives on Transcendental Matters.” (© Xiaojing Yan)
In this issue, explore “ Metabolism and Art,” which presents new ways of thinking about metabolism and the overlap of organisms, and “ In-Habitant: An Inquiry into a Non-Dualistic Duality of Human and Nonhuman,” which discusses using art as a research method for human-nonhuman relations in urban settings. Plus, many more art/science articles.
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Accepted Leonardo articles are first posted on the Leonardo Just Accepted page of the MIT Press website. Just Accepted articles appear online in advance of the final version and are not yet associated with an issue, copyedited, typeset, or proofread. See recent articles:
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“Urban Intonation: Listening to the Rats of New York City” by Brian House
“ENERGY IS NEVER LOST: Portrait of swiss artist Margrit Fischer-Hotz” by Margrit Fischer-Hotz, Maya Minder
“Art as Enquiry: Theoretical Perspectives on Research in Art and Science” by Kate McCallum
Only subscribers to Leonardo have access to Just Accepted articles unless authors have made arrangements to have the article published as an open access document.
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LEONARDO REVIEWS
August 2023
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RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING PEER REVIEWERS
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We extend our gratitude and congratulations to the following for their reviews of recent papers under consideration for publication: lindsey french, Eugene Han, Haru Hyunkyung Ji, and Nora S. Vaage. Read more.
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VOIDOPOLIS: LONGLISTED FOR THE LUMEN PRIZE
We are thrilled to announce that Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis, part of the Leonardo Book Series, is longlisted for the Lumen Prize.
Voidopolis is an augmented reality book designed to disappear.
Meant to culminate in loss, its garbled pages can only be deciphered with an AR app. |
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LASER NETWORK EVENTS
Photo Credit: LASER Sante Fe
In the spirit of LASER's mission of democratizing knowledge and fostering transdisciplinary discourse, we help communities, organizations, and hybrid practitioners in continuing these dialogues. We are pleased to announce a number of events taking place in New Mexico, Armenia, the United States, and Europe over the next few months.
FIND ALL UPCOMING LASER TALKS LISTED HERE
 (SWITZERLAND)
“Future of Soil - Plant interactions”
29 August 2023, 6:30PM CEST (UTC +2) Find out more
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“International Media Festivals and the Evolution of Transcultural Communities”
1 September 2023, 8:00PM (UTC +4) Find out more
(SWITZERLAND)
“Resilience, Nutrition, Food Systems”
5 September 2023, 6:30PM CEST (UTC +2) Find out more
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“Art/Science Collaborations and Ocean Research”
7 September 2023, 6:30PM PDT (UTC -7) Find out more
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“sunEARth / sunearth cohabitate / the solar pulsations echoing in the Earth's biosphere”
19 September 2023, 7:00PM (UTC +2) Find out more
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“Quantum Panorama: Art, Science & Technology in a superposition state”
22 September 2023, 6:00PM (UTC +2) Find out more
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“Promises and Perils of AI”
28 September 2023, 6:00PM (UTC -6) Find out more
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