Leonardo.Ai — Imagination Fund

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Overview

LEONARDO.AI · ARTIST COLLABORATION

Imagination Fund

Backing artists who take technology somewhere unexpected.

Leonardo.Ai · Imagination Fund

The brand promise becomes tangible support for ambitious creative work.

The Imagination Fund looked across art, design, film, and interactive experience for creators using technology to push their craft into new territory.

Five projects were selected from more than 500 submissions, each receiving a $10,000 grant as part of a $50,000 fund.

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The fund

Creative visions, backed

Funding, tools, and a deadline turn speculative ideas into finished work.

500+
Submissions

Ideas arrived from across creative disciplines and around the world.

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Artists

Five distinct practices were selected for support.

$10K
Each

Every selected project received meaningful production funding.

$50K
Total fund

A direct investment in creator-led experimentation.

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Artists

Meet the artists

Five different practices. Five different ways to expand what a creative tool can do.

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Multidisciplinary artist · Australia

Mia Forrest
Orchids
AI-grown orchids trained from herbarium imagery, engraved onto brass plates and translated into tactile embossings.
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Filmmaker · USA

Mateo Mejia
Toymaker
A surreal film combining practical sets, DIY props, in-camera effects, and Leonardo-assisted image making.
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Digital artist · Singapore

Joyce Ng
Human Error Rate
Real commuter behavior is placed beside its machine-generated reflection to expose the imperfect gap between human and algorithm.
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Digital artist · France

Lucas Clément
Anotherworld
A dreamcore social universe expands into a cinematic short and an inhabitable 360-degree VR experience.
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Experimental media artist · Lithuania

Ivona Tau
I Wish I Had Told You About the Fieldfares This October
Family films become an intimate dialogue between past and present through restoration, synthetic voice, and generated imagery.
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Showcase

Witness the work

Finished projects reveal technology as material, not a replacement for craft.

Explore the live showcase

The collection spans tactile botanical prints, hybrid cinema, algorithmic commuter studies, dreamcore VR, and reconstructed family memory.

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