Highlights from the IEEE VIS 2016 and 2017 Arts Program (VISAP’16 and ’17) in Leonardo Journal Special Edition, Forbes, AG., Chung Han, Y., Bravo, EG., Boy, J. (eds), MIT, Boston, USA (2020)

This special section highlights artworks and design projects featured in the IEEE VIS 2016 and 2017 Arts Program, VISAP’16 and VISAP’17. The IEEE VIS Arts Program is a forum that encourages dialogue about the relationship between aesthetics and visualization and discussion of the potential roles of artists, humanities scholars and designers in foundational research in information visualization.