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Announcing: Leonardo Pioneer Award to Pomona LABS publication under the leadership of Sheila Pinkel

Submitted by Erica Hruby on Friday, 08/03/2018 11:27am

A half a century ago, kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer Frank Malina set out to solve the needs of a community of artists and scientists working across disciplines by using the “new media” of the time: offset print publishing. As a groundbreaking, innovative venture, Leonardo represented a unique vision: to serve as an international channel of communication among artists, with emphasis on the writings of artists who use science and developing technologies in their work.

Dante at Djerassi

Submitted by Thomas Skalak on Sunday, 07/08/2018 7:51pm

Dante wrote "Nature is the art of God", and we feel the art of nature here at Djerassi.  The old master wrote The Divine Comedy while in exile from his daily responsibilities in Florence, while modern master of science-based fiction Andy Weir (The Martian) channels what Dante called "forza", or  the force of action, in his thrillers.  I'm feeling a kinship with both authors as I construct my new book Continental Shift during this Leonardo-Djerassi residency in exile.

New Landscape Artwork at Djerassi

Submitted by Thomas Skalak on Saturday, 07/07/2018 9:59pm

WATCH. A new landscape artwork at Djerassi ranch. This work was constructed by subtractive writing on a historic Djerassi ranch sign bearing the bullet holes of bygone days of exuberance. It invites the viewer to enter a timeless landscape by watching, and having once possessed this connection to eternity, find peace.

Misinterpreting the landscape

Submitted by Alan Bogana on Friday, 07/06/2018 9:14pm

This year I started to use computer fluid dynamics software, or maybe better said misuse, in my art practice. So far, I have been feeding data from specific environments in technical CFD software, creating a series of simulation situations and then projecting the results back on the very same physical environment (here link to a previous work). The idea of this process was to evoke a transcendental, psychedelic and poetic relationship to the environment by means of technical and quantified imagery.

Steve Wilson Fellowship for Scientific Delirium Madness and Women

Submitted by Sonia Sheridan on Tuesday, 07/03/2018 2:41pm

These winners happen to be women but were selected simply because they most represented Steve Wilson's ideas with the quality and breadth of their work. Equally important were their philosophies of searching for what was needed for society's advancement in the education of the next generations (Ramirez) and looking for the roots of the meaning of art in distant cultural pasts (Brady). In each case, the two women stood out above all as confident, hard-working and skilled in their work. Above all, they each had a vision and a determined path.