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Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST)

Who We Are

What We Do

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Our Mission: Leonardo/ISAST serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology, and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists.

Vision Statement: Science and Technology dominate our current landscape, emerging with an intensity and velocity never before experienced. This intense intellectual creativity needs to be integrated with the humanizing activity of creating art, to bring balance to how we experience our current existence and imagine our futures. Over the course of history, art has been both an organizing and integrating role with our emotional and intellectual lives. Art serves as a means of presenting, questioning, understanding and creating order out of chaos and change. Imagination often leads the way of discovery in science. Innovation of art, science and technology will allow for new ideas that may be important economically and socially. Leonardo/ISAST serves as the organization that nurtures and fosters this alliance between the arts and sciences, proactively bringing these social networks together leading to greater creativity and social change in both areas.

40th Anniversary: In 2007 and 2008, Leonardo celebrates the 40th anniversary of its flagship journal Leonardo with special projects and events around the world.

Activities of the Leonardo network include publication of the print journals Leonardo; the Leonardo Music Journal; the Leonardo Book Series (all published by the MIT Press); and electronic publications including the Leonardo Electronic Almanac; Leonardo Abstracts Service database of thesis abstracts; Leonardo Transactions and our World Wide Web Site, Leonardo On-Line. We have a sister organization in France, the Association Leonardo, which publishes the Observatoire Leonardo Web Site. We have a number of other activities including the Leonardo Educators and Students Program and an awards program.

Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The activities of Leonardo/ISAST are supported by grants and donations from organizations and individuals. Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.