LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02357
Silvio Wolf, Inna Rozentsvit
{"title":"VIEW ON THRESHOLDS BY TRANSDISCIPLINARY PARTNERS: THE SHARED JOURNEY CONTINUES","authors":"Silvio Wolf, Inna Rozentsvit","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02357","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is a reflection on a journey of transdisciplinary partners from two different and unusual (for collaboration) “sets” of disciplines: art photography (Silvio Wolf, SW) and cross-pollinated research in the fields of applied clinical neuroscience and psychoanalysis (Inna Rozentsvit, IR). This relationship started from examining the “beholder’s share” phenomenon and further collaboration on the topics of “thresholds” and “visible/invisible,” as they relate to these two individuals’ personal and professional beings.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135012719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02353
Emanuela Corti, Ivan Parati, Christian Dils
{"title":"LOVEWEAR: haptic clothing that allows intimate exploration for movement-impaired","authors":"Emanuela Corti, Ivan Parati, Christian Dils","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02353","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Disabled sexuality often faces physical, political, and societal barriers. The lack of inclusivity in the sex toy market does not support an autonomous experience for impaired individuals who can’t operate toys without external assistance. LOVEWEAR is an art-science collaborative project that combines user-centered design principles with soft robotics integrated into textiles. The aim is to offer an autonomous experience through haptic feedback, allowing self-exploration of intimate sensations and sexual pleasure to females with motor impairments. A pillow interface activates an underwear garment: while caressing and touching the pillow, the wearer triggers the underwear’s inflatable inserts actuators. This transdisciplinary project used a mixed-methods research design; the objective is to promote the embedment of technology into everyday garments, to improve the wearer’s quality of life.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135012717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02359
Kostas Terzidis, Filippo Fabrocini, Hyejin Lee, Louis Daumard
{"title":"Deep Permutation Design: A new potential artificial intelligence-based design methodology","authors":"Kostas Terzidis, Filippo Fabrocini, Hyejin Lee, Louis Daumard","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02359","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract An artificial intelligence-based design methodology is presented based on permutations and neural networks. Elements are combined in all possible ways to form all possible design solutions and a neural network extracts the best solutions after being trained on either objective or subjective criteria. This methodology is projected to have many applications in fashion, architecture, music, storytelling, cooking, or any other design or art field that can be represented as a set of permutations.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135012718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02361
Ye Yang, Guangxi Chen, Mengqi Li, Kang Zhang
{"title":"Interactive Moiré Patterns Reflecting on the Traditional Nanjing Baiju","authors":"Ye Yang, Guangxi Chen, Mengqi Li, Kang Zhang","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02361","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper presents a human-machine design approach to the artistic and metaphoric representation of the traditional weaving scene of Yunjin brocade as interactive Moiré patterns accompanied by Nanjing Baiju. We extract the basic elements of Moiré patterns and systematically recompose them to mimic the weaving process. Then, we wrote an algorithm to generate eye-shaped Moiré patterns responding dynamically to the unique sounds weavers make while weaving, symbolizing the long and tiring gaze of warp and weft, and eye contacts between weavers. Finally, we develop a sonic interactive installation with the rhythmic machine sound and Nanjing Baiju Sweating Weaving Room, visualizing the hard labor and harmonious work hidden behind the glamourous brocade.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135012951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1162/leon_e_02462
Diana Ayton-Shenker
{"title":"Remediating the Individual and the Collective","authors":"Diana Ayton-Shenker","doi":"10.1162/leon_e_02462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_e_02462","url":null,"abstract":"In his Artist’s Note in this issue, Raphael Arar shares how his installation An Ecological Oracle engages participants with real-time data experiments to expose the tension between the individual and the collective underlying a critical tipping point of climate change—the thawing of permafrost. Likewise, this tension surrounds other critical tipping points confronting the planet, species, and vital intersecting systems of earth. Ultimately, the recognition of our inherent interconnectedness may be what remediates, if not reconciles, our individual and collective interests, perspectives, and behavior.Moriba Jah [1], Chief Science Officer and cofounder of Privateer, emphasized in his remarks at the AI for Good Summit [2] (July 2023, Geneva, Switzerland) that one of the key potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) is to “help humanity see evidence of interconnectedness.” “We can’t achieve sustainability … in the absence of machines. Machines are here to help!” says Jah. Indeed, AI is essential to decipher causal and correlative relationships indicated at scale within otherwise impenetrable and massive aggregate data blocs that defy unassisted human capacity. Jah’s call to action: “Empathy, empathy, empathy! Think like a species and embrace interconnectivity and stewardship!”Following this call for interconnection by AI-driven data visualization, artists and advocates are trailblazing paths that give legibility and meaning to what Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer of Planet.com [3], describes as the “data deluge” that defines, if not overwhelms, human society today. While we need to close the digital divide for the 2.7 billion people who are not yet online, the other nearly 5.5 billion of us are at risk of being lost in a sea of data. The central challenge is not only data access for individuals but also a way to make sense of it for the collective. Seeing data as a creative medium, artists unlock on-ramps for an AI participation revolution. Experimental data art can help visualize and sonify patterns, create entry points, and chart new trajectories for all to engage with data in a meaningful, legible way. AI artists also introduce data encounters with human playfulness, humility, and empathy, reinforcing essential qualities of humanity and humanness.Integrating individual aspiration with collective manifestation, the Our Future Life (OFL) project, a global, futurepositive movement, aims to create “the world’s most inclusive brainstorm” [4], inviting participants around the planet to imagine and upload digital visions of a shared future for humanity. OFL, employing AI to sift, sort, and synthesize individual submissions, aims to reveal a collective vision of how humans might thrive on the planet, allowing us to see the change we want to be in the world. Through its partnership with Leonardo and Arizona State University, OFL is demonstrating that the future of hope is an iterative process, one that begins with each and all of us and that is","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135845680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}