ASU-Leonardo Imagination Fellowship

ASU-Leonardo Imagination Fellowship

ASU-Leonardo and the Center for Science and the Imagination have announced the Leonardo Imagination Fellowship Program for fall 2020. The selected fellows shall participate in this prototype season of the fellowship. They will join a virtual program to explore experimental art-science innovation practices across multiple publishing and broadcast media platforms that imagine a regenerative, vibrant global future for all. 

Fellows will propose and carry out hybrid creative projects and activities that integrate art and science for positive global impact aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The fellowship will support experimental work, especially across new and emerging media or publishing, to model new ways that art-science can advance resilience, justice, empathy, cooperation, generosity, trust and other qualities that make social systems and digital culture more human and more humane. The goal is not only to advance individual projects but also to connect diverse communities of practice and interest together for dialogue, engagement and empowerment.

Find out more at:

https://www.leonardo.info/imagination-fellowship?utm_source=LNN+subscribers&utm_campaign=8392702518-special-announcment-30-october-2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_59c5038641-8392702518-116753806&mc_cid=8392702518&mc_eid=12d481deeb

ASU-Leonardo and the Center for Science and the Imagination (CSI) are proud to announce the Leonardo Imagination Fellowship Program in fall 2020. Fellows selected to participate in this prototype season of the fellowship will join a virtual program to explore experimental ArtScience innovation practices, across multiple publishing and broadcast media platforms, that imagine a regenerative, vibrant global future for all.

Fellows will propose and carry out hybrid creative projects and activities that integrate art & science for positive global impact (spanning local to planetary scope) aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We will support experimental work, especially across new and emerging media or publishing, to model new ways that ArtScience can advance resilience, justice, empathy, cooperation, generosity, trust, and other qualities that make social systems and digital culture more human and more humane. Through the fellowship we hope not just to advance individual projects but also to support collaborations that connect diverse communities of practice and interest as well as the existing networks of Leonardo and CSI together for dialog, engagement, and empowerment.

The inaugural Fellowship Program will offer up to three virtual fellowships, beginning in October 2020, for a duration of 8 weeks.

Each Leonardo Imagination Fellow will:

• Be recognized across ASU-Leonardo, CSI, Leonardo/ISAST, and related platforms

• Receive up to US$1,000 stipend as cash honorarium

• Receive up to US$1,000 additionally, in support of direct expenses

• Receive technical assistance from ASU to develop and complete their work

• Receive access to Leonardo archives and ASU academic resources in pursuit of scholarly research and creative practice

• Participate in a co-created Leo Mentor Matrix, identifying 1–2 mentors, 1–2 peers, and 1–2 protégés with whom they will engage throughout their fellowship

• Lead an ASU LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) event featuring a presentation they offer, and another by a presenter whom they will select & invite

• Share their Statement of Intent to be disseminated across ASU-Leonardo & CSI network

• Produce two Fellowship pieces (statement, creative work, research documentation, digital media, immersive experience, etc.) to be shared midway through the fellowship period as a work-in-progress/process, and at the end as a culmination of the Fellowship

• Participate in special and ongoing events and activities of ASU-Leonardo and CSI

• Commit 2-4 hours per week throughout the duration of the fellowship for collaborative meetings and activities where the fellows can engage with one another and the Leonardo and CSI networks, and additional time for self-directed project work

Fellowships support diversity, equity, and inclusivity in ArtScience creative practice and scholarly inquiry that amplify voices of underrepresented talent, including but not limited to people overcoming or living with experiences of forced migration, exile, systemic racism, incarceration, discrimination, disability, marginalization, environmental justice, and other vulnerable circumstances. Priority consideration will be given to fellowships promoting social justice, antiracism, inclusion of underrepresented genders, and equity through dismantling systemic social injustice and humanizing digital culture.

A massive LNG project faces rising opposition in Oregon. The quiet backer is a Canadian firm.

Find the article written by Geoff Dembicki here: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/09/08/Theyre-Trying-To-Take-My-House/

September 2020

Here is a section of the article I was mentioned in:

"Strangely, environmental critics remarked, the ad didn’t once name the project’s true owner, Pembina. It also omitted the fact that most of the corporate profits from building the terminal and pipeline would likely flow up to Alberta; that much, if not all, of the exported gas will potentially come from Canada; and that despite the inclusion of “Tribal Nations” in the lobby group’s name, no tribes in Oregon or California appear to publicly support these projects. “It’s very manipulative,” Brook Thompson, a member of California’s Yurok Tribe, which is downriver of the proposed Pacific Connector route, says of the Western States group."

'“The worst-case scenario is a spill or contaminants leaking. The pipeline is going to cross over 400 waterways, including three major rivers, mine being one of them,” said Thompson from the Yurok Tribe. If the pipe were to burst, she said, “that would be an example of something we have no control of, that happens upstream in Oregon and impacts us downriver.”'

Google Earth Indigenous Languages Layer now Includes Yurok

"Users of Google Earth are now able to hear over 50 Indigenous language speakers from across the globe saying words and simple phrases and even singing traditional songs.

The project, called Celebrating Indigenous Languages, is designed to honour the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages.

For Indigenous people, language is a lifeline to culture."

- 2019 CBC story https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/google-earth-indigenous-languages-1.5240672

To see the layer for yourself go here:

https://earth.google.com/web/@43.84671843,-117.18192681,744.01536206a,2706552.44219273d,35y,-0h,0t,0r/data=CikSJxIgYTY1Y2U1NTk3MzE4MTFlOTkzN2RjN2JkNTNhNDc1ZGIiA1lVUg

I was asked to be apart of the Google Earth layer for the Yurok Tribe by google. They asked for all levels of language speakers to be included, from those just learning to those who speak it as their first language and are teachers. I grew up with Yurok in my home living with Archie Thompson who was the last Native (L1) speaker of Yurok. I practice daily and have the goal of only speaking it in my home by the time I am 35. In summer of 2020 Google added a second wave of speakers to the layer.