Leonardo LASER Talks Bergen
Virtual events on meetings between art, science and technology.
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The Center for Digital Narrative's Artistic Integrated Research node proudly presents Leonardo LASER Bergen: a series of virtual events and presentations that invite creative practitioners, scientists, and researchers, to come together to discuss topics at the art/science/technology nexus.
Backed by the prestigious Leonardo research network (external link), we broach the topics of more-than-human narratives and communications in digital art, exploring notions that extend our understandings of posthumanism, anthropocentrism, climactic events, and interspecies relations, through practices such as poetry games, interactive art, data visualisations, synthetic authorship, and more.
The talks are organised and hosted by Dr. Alinta Krauth and Professor Jason Nelson.
"This will be a truly global cast of guest speakers from places such as The Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, the Winchester School of Art, Queensland University of Technology, and more," says Krauth.
Therolinguistics: the digital and the feral
How do we engage posthuman and more-than-human 'voice' in critical creative practices? Computational artist and real-time animator Rewa Wright, and multispecies therolinguist and installation artist Audax M. Gawler discuss how nature-culture interactions, and non-Western and new-Western concepts of non-anthropocentric thinking, feeling, being, making, and writing, all come together in their distinct techno-practices.
Date & time: Monday Feb 16 2026, 9:00 am (online).
Small Climates, Big Issues: Visualizing, sounding, touching, and reading microclimate data
Forest ecologist and ecoinformatics researcher Robert Lewis (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA) and multidisciplinary artist Alinta Krauth come together to explore how microclimates and the data that reveal them, shape forests and, more broadly, the Earth’s future. Moving between ecological science and artistic practice, they ask how microclimate data can be interpreted, translated, and contested through interactive digital art, literature, and sound, and what this implies for science communication, public engagement, and environmental stewardship. The discussion draws on recent Nordic Forest Research (SNS) microclimate research and the artworks that followed from the Intimate Atmospheres exhibition, using these as a springboard to consider how environmental sensing can be reimagined through multiple ways of knowing. Join us to encounter the same concepts through two parallel lenses: the scientist’s aims and the artist’s eye.
Date & time: Wednesday Feb 25 2026, 2:00 pm (online).
Interventions in the creation of nonhuman narratives
How are nonhuman and more-than-human narratives and poetics being engaged by techno-artists in fields of digital poetics, video games, and digital design? We look to practices such as interactive poetry games, AI-assisted making, and sensor-driven interactions to contemplate how historically human-centric digital arts practices can begin to incorporate other ways of seeing. Just us for scintillating conversation from digital artist Julian Stadon, seminal poetry game creator Jordan Magnusson, and seminal digital poet and art games creator Jason Nelson. This event takes a departure from the standard online panel-talk format by taking audiences behind the scenes of how three practitioners each from different fields, design and produce their works. They will show some of their methods live, and might even work together in real time to generate a new artwork concept together. After practice introductions from each presenter, they will turn their attention towards chatting through their processes, and might even improvise and design something new together!
Date & time: Friday Mar 6 2026, 2:00 pm (online).
