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Where to Find Leonardo
Leonardo is published six times a year by The MIT Press. Subscriptions to Leonardo include print issues, digital versions available on The MIT Press website as well as the annual companion issue of LMJ. Individual issues or articles for both journals are also available from MIT Press, digital databases such as EBSCOhost, Project MUSE, JSTOR and via libraries and institutions around the world.
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Leonardo
Leonardo was founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer Frank Malina who saw the need for a journal 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. Published by The MIT Press, Leonardo has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology.
Leonardo is interested in work that crosses the artificial boundaries separating contemporary arts and sciences. Featuring illustrated articles written by artists about their own work as well as articles by historians, theoreticians, philosophers and other researchers, the journal is particularly concerned with issues related to the interaction of the arts, sciences and technology. Leonardo focuses on the visual arts and also addresses music, video, performance, language, environmental and conceptual arts—especially as they relate to the visual arts or make use of the tools, materials and ideas of contemporary science and technology. New concepts, materials and techniques and other subjects of general artistic interest are covered, as are legal, economic and political aspects of art.
Beginning in 2021 Leonardo journal includes music and sound art, encompassing content from Leonardo Music Journal (retired 2020), into its editorial focus.
Current and Past Issues of Leonardo
Volume 57
Volume 56
- Issue 6 - December 2023
- Issue 5 - October 2023
- Issue 4 - August 2023
- Issue 3 - June 2023
- Issue 2 - April 2023
- Issue 1 - February 2023
Volume 55
- Issue 6 - December 2022
- Issue 5 - October 2022
- Issue 5 - October 2022
- Issue 3 - June 2022
- Issue 2 - April 2022
- Issue 1 - February 2022
Volume 54
- Issue 6 - December 2021
- Issue 5 - October 2021
- Issue 4 - August 2021
- Issue 3 - June 2021
- Issue 2 - April 2021
- Issue 1 - February 2021
Volume 53
- Issue 5 - October 2020
- Issue 4 - August 2020
- Issue 3 - June 2020
- Issue 2 - April 2020
- Issue 1 - February 2020
Volume 52
- Issue 5 - October 2019
- Issue 4 - July 2019
- Issue 3 - June 2019
- Issue 2 - April 2019
- Issue 1 - February 2019
Volume 51
- Issue 5 - October 2018
- Issue 4 - August 2018
- Issue 3 - June 2018
- Issue 2 - April 2018
- Issue 1 - February 2018
Volume 50
- Issue 5 - October 2017
- Issue 4 - August 2017
- Issue 3 - June 2017
- Issue 2 - April 2017
- Issue 1 - February 2017
Volume 49
- Issue 5 - October 2016
- Issue 4 - August 2016
- Issue 3 - June 2016
- Issue 2 - April 2016
- Issue 1 - February 2016
Volume 48
- Issue 5 - October 2015
- Issue 4 - August 2015
- Issue 3 - June 2015
- Issue 2 - April 2015
- Issue 1 - February 2015
Volume 47
- Issue 5 - October 2014
- Issue 4 - August 2014
- Issue 3 - June 2014
- Issue 2 - April 2014
- Issue 1 - February 2014
Volume 46
- Issue 5 - October 2013
- Issue 4 - August 2013
- Issue 3 - June 2013
- Issue 2 - April 2013
- Issue 1 - February 2013
Volume 45
- Issue 5 - October 2012
- Issue 4 - August 2012
- Issue 3 - June 2012
- Issue 2 - April 2012
- Issue 1 - February 2012
Volume 44
- Issue 5 - October 2011
- Issue 4 - August 2011
- Issue 3 - June 2011
- Issue 2 - April 2011
- Issue 1 - February 2011
Volume 43
- Issue 5 - October 2010
- Issue 4 - August 2010
- Issue 3 - June 2010
- Issue 2 - April 2010
- Issue 1 - February 2010
Volume 42
- Issue 5 - October 2009
- Issue 4 - August 2009
- Issue 3 - June 2009
- Issue 2 - April 2009
- Issue 1 - February 2009
Volume 41
- Issue 5 - October 2008
- Issue 4 - August 2008
- Issue 3 - June 2008
- Issue 2 - April 2008
- Issue 1 - February 2008
Volume 40
- Issue 5 - October 2007
- Issue 4 - August 2007
- Issue 3 - June 2007
- Issue 2 - April 2007
- Issue 1 - February 2007
Volume 39
- Issue 5 - October 2006
- Issue 4 - August 2006
- Issue 3 - June 2006
- Issue 2 - April 2006
- Issue 1 - February 2006
Volume 38
- Issue 5 - October 2005
- Issue 4 - August 2005
- Issue 3 - June 2005
- Issue 2 - April 2005
- Issue 1 - February 2005
Volume 37
- Issue 5 - October 2004
- Issue 4 - August 2004
- Issue 3 - June 2004
- Issue 2 - April 2004
- Issue 1 - February 2004
Volume 36
- Issue 5 - October 2003
- Issue 4 - August 2003
- Issue 3 - June 2003
- Issue 2 - April 2003
- Issue 1 - February 2003
Volume 35
- Issue 5 - October 2002
- Issue 4 - August 2002
- Issue 3 - June 2002
- Issue 2 - April 2002
- Issue 1 - February 2002
Volume 34
- Issue 5 - October 2001
- Issue 4 - August 2001
- Issue 3 - June 2001
- Issue 2 - April 2001
- Issue 1 - February 2001
Volume 33
- Issue 5 - October 2000
- Issue 4 - August 2000
- Issue 3 - June 2000
- Issue 2 - April 2000
- Issue 1 - February 2000