Pioneers & Pathbreakers

Pioneers and Pathbreakers is a project of OLATS/The Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and the Techno-Sciences and Leonardo/ISAST. Pioneers and Pathbreakers involves various publications, activities and events. The aim of the project is to establish reliable, selected, on-line documentation about twentieth-century artists whose works and ideas are considered seminal in the development of technological art.

Call for Papers

As part of Leonardo/ISAST's Pioneers and Pathbreakers project, we are pleased to issue a call for papers dealing with the history of developments in the arts, sciences and technology. We are interested in topics including the following:

Memoirs by pioneer artists using new media (holography, computer and electronic arts, telecommunication arts, interactive arts, new materials, space arts, etc.). Texts must be written by the artist, in English, and cover an extended body of work. Length may be up to 5,000 words with 12 illustrations. Preference will be given to artists describing early work carried out prior to 1980. Readers of Leonardo are asked to encourage their colleagues to submit such memoirs, which will be invaluable primary documents for historians and scholars in the future.
Texts by art historians and other scholars examining the interaction between the contemporary arts and science or technology in the work of individuals or groups of artists. Students are encouraged to contact us with proposals to publish portions of their theses.
Theoretical and other analytical texts addressing current developments in art/technology within the context of earlier movements in this and prior centuries.

Interested authors should submit manuscript proposals or completed manuscripts to the Leonardo Editorial Office

See the Leonardo Editorial Guidelines for more information on submitting manuscripts to Leonardo.