As a working astronomer for decades, I learned different ways of observing the universe, noticing differences, unexpectancies — but as astrologers learned to their peril, never meddle in life on earth.
When Cassini Nazir and I started the ArtSciLab at UTDallas, I had no idea that I had to become a professional meddler, and how much as an astronomer I had to learn. Training as a Designer helped some: thank you Mauricio Meijia and many others.
10 Birthday Party; You are invited to attend April 16 2022, hybrid in Dallas.
We are about to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our ArtSciLab. We have collaborated with more than 100 people, and bioluminescent bacteria- check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-pmmKRMT9w
Thanks to a group ( detailed at the end of this post) initiated by Jeremiah J Gassensmith we learned how to know when the bacteria were hungry and needed feeding
Now with Kathryn Evans, our co-director, we are meddling in a variety of ways.
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.