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3000-year-old Bronze Animal Mask from SanXingDui China is where ArtSciLab member Haoyi Song comes from

Haoyi Song recently donated a magnetic badge to the ArtSciLab. Bronze objects found in the second sacrificial pit included sculptures of humans, animal-faced sculptures, bells, decorative animals such as dragons, snakes, chicks, and birds, and axes. Tables, masks, and belts were some of the objects found that were made out of gold, while objects made out of jade included axes, tablets, rings, knives, and tubes. There was also a large number of ivory and clam shells. Researchers were astonished to find an artistic style that was completely unknown in the history of Chinese art.

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INTERESTING INCOMPLETE IDEAS

Part C

I3 was born, representing Interesting Incomplete Ideas. As the lab geared up to celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2023, it provided the perfect opportunity to reconnect with lab alums. The primary goal was to extend invitations for the DecaDance, the milestone celebration, and to explore whether any alumni harbored intriguing ideas left unfinished. In reaching out to several alums, Misal engaged in captivating conversations. He aims to compile and document their I3s so that current and future lab members have a reference point to reach out to for inspiration if they find themselves pursuing ideas along similar lines.

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Misal is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Finance at The University of Texas at Dallas. He also has a Master’s degree in the field of Physics. Moreover, he has research experience in the field of Atmospheric Science. He is a Financial Coordinator at ArtSciLab, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration across cultures and disciplines. He decided to study physics and finance because his interests lie in these two highly distinct fields: Cosmology and Investments. He believes both areas require a similar approach to analyzing data, identifying patterns, and making informed decisions based on evidence.

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Announcing the Doors of Delusion Trans-sensory Grief

Eric Fulbright, Roger Malina, Jan 24 2024

Doors of Delusion (Grief) An artistic sensory experience in Denton Texas

The ability to process grief is often suppressed by the demands of everyday life. In the face of major loss, one is still bound to certain priorities and routines, a schedule that isn’t patient, and rarely compromises.

In film, it is common to see a hyper romanticized, or a minimized portrayal of grief. For dramatic effect, it may make sense for writers leave out the more tedious and mundane details. However in reality, it is not resolved in a 2-hour run time. For some, this takes decades. And even so, the ongoing expectations you had before remain.

Through constant demand, and inability to focus, one could gradually forget themselves in the mess of it all.

In this artistic interpretation of grief, the senses of touch, vibration, smell, and sight will work together. The artistic installation, created by Eric Fulbright with Roger F. Malina’s outsights, will be experienceable in early February in Denton, Texas.

We are badly designed to understand the world around and beyond us. Our senses evolved over millennia to allow us to be born, survive, eat, marry and have children and die. Understanding was secondary to survival, grief irrelevant except for those still alive trying to have children or not.

For further info, contact: ericfulbright98@gmail.com

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Urban Acupuncture Applied to a Research Lab and Studio: ArtSciVillage an exemplar of Smart Village Acupuncture

Roger F. Malina

The UTDallas ArtSciLab is a university research lab and studio. We seek to apply trans-disciplinary, trans-cultural and trans-generational methodologies on problems that are desirable to solve.

Tomas Londono, and subsequently Tommy Ayala, initiated the application of Smart Village methods to our research lab. The hope is that we will uncover new ways of doing, discovering, and applying to societal contexts outside the ArtSciLab.

On of the ideas that Tomas Londono initiated was a quick application of the Methods of Urban Acupuncture. We propose to convert this to Smart Acupuncture, in a Smart Village Research Lab.

The simple version of the idea is that we tend to over think and over-analyze and plan. Sometimes a quick jab can create desirable change and ideas, drawing on the ideas of Maturana and Varela: auto-poetic smart acupuncture. Pin prick both the social system and the technologies used, separately to together.

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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.

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ArtSciLab – A Smart Village

Roger F. Malina, Tomas Londono and Tommy Ayala

On Dec 13 2023 Roger Malina and Tomas Londono did a first public presentation on the idea of using Smart Village methodologies to convert the UTD ArtSciLab into a Smart Village.

They were invited to present at 2023 China Design and Artificial Intelligence Liangzhu Summit, held from December 13th to 16th, 2023.

They were told that Liangzhu entered the realm of national civilization over 3,000 years ago. Industrial design, originating from the “Industrial Revolution,” represents innovative design. When these two meet across time and space, from culture to industry, from nation to design, the mission of the “School of Industrial Design” at the China Academy of Art is set. Starting from the steam era (Industrial 1.0), the electrical era (Industrial 2.0), the information era (Industrial 3.0), and now entering the intelligent era (Industrial 4.0), design is constantly evolving in the intersection of humanism and technology. “Industry” represents the industrial circle, and “School” represents academia, while “Design” in the context of great innovation is our shared endeavor.

In this blog Roger Malina tries to explain his motivations for being involved in the project.

You can also view slides and watch the recorded presentation.

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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.

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Deep Sensing

Deep Sensing is a an OBSERVATORY OF CRITICAL ZONES. In January 2024, Richardson Texas, you will be able to sense deep space: Sciart exchange

You will be accessing the latest data from big telescopes in orbit and on earth to sense the universe we are embedded in.

At the simple level, the team is converting NASA data into sensory experiences involving sight, sound, touch and walking around. No human has ever been to the places you will be “visiting’. What you will experience are ‘fabrications’ made a team of artists, scientists, administrators and…

By that it doesn’t mean that they are ‘false’ but that they are “made up’ so we can make sense of these places. In some cases they may be false “hallucinations’, but we can only find that out by collecting different kinds of data.

The place you will be visiting has been named by some humans as “the pandora cluster’ a collection of galaxies orbiting each other.

You can read more about it in this blog post.

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Deep Sensing: Your Thought Experiments of the In-Between Spaces in Outer Space

Roger F. Malina – ORCID

So here goes:
Deep Sensing is, perhaps, an OBSERVATORY OF CRITICAL ZONES. In January 2024, Richardson Texas, you will be able to sense deep space:

You will be accessing the latest data from big telescopes in orbit and on earth to sense the universe we are embedded in (details at the end of this blog).

At the simple level, the team is converting NASA data into sensory experiences involving sight, sound, touch and walking around. No human has ever been to the places you will be “visiting’. What you
will experience are ‘fabrications’ made a team of artists, scientists,
administrators and…

By that I don’t mean that they are ‘false’ but that they are “made up’’ so we can make sense of these places. In some cases they may be false “hallucinations’, but we can only find that out by collecting different kinds of data.

The place you will be visiting has been named by some humans as “the pandora cluster’ a collection of galaxies orbiting each other. Go figure why this name makes sense.

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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.

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Project Wanderer

Wanderer is an interactive application with a visual display screen and built-in sensors. Wanderer applies two Taoist concepts (Tao, Wuwei) to interaction design and system design and aims to foster a posthuman relationship between humans and a virtual fish. The relationship only exists when the shared environment and peripheral conditions are habitable for the participating species. In short, the interaction design of Wanderer prioritizes environmental conditions and minimizes human manipulation.

To emphasize the significance of the nature and global influence, Wanderer not only includes, and more importantly, prioritizes external environment in the virtual interaction by adding real-time regional data regarding weather, temperature, water quality, and global variables (e.g., warfare and oil spills). The ecological parameters would be a decisive factor in the Wanderer in that to connect people indoor with the reality outdoor. In addition to ecological factors, Wanderer uses digital sensors to measure temperature, motion, distance, sound level, and lighting level of the indoor environment (i.e., ArtSciLab space) and determines whether the collective condition is suitable for the fish to appear.

Project By:
Lee Yueh-Jung
Evan Acuna
Michael Tran
Aiden Acuna
Samra Obuobi

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Emergence Emerges in Spite of the Best Symbiotic human + AI Analysis

After reading: Strong Emergence Arising from Weak Emergence

Roger F. Malina – ORCID

See abstract at bottom of this blog:
a) Don’t bother reading this article. The abstract says enough. The authors applied state of the art analysis tools. Their conclusion: Predictions of emergent phenomena, appearing on the macroscopic layer of a complex system, can fail if they are made by a microscopic
model.
b) How did meaning emerge in my brain as I read this next to the Calatrava bridge in Dallas. 3000 people are running a long distance race. The runners were in small clusters, like in the game of life (GOL) that the authors study. Yes some of the clusters are friends, but
others are clustering for other or no reason.
c) Maybe the meaning of complex is ‘phenomena we don’t understand, yet’ so?

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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.

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Disremembering through the thoughts of Stanislav Dehaene

Upon mid-reading of Dehaene’s 2020 book “How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain”.

Roger F. Malina – ORCID

The first take home from this book, that I haven’t finished reading yet, is to: REDESIGN YOUR NAME. I called the wrong person yesterday, as I was reading Dehaene, when I called Patrick Mc in my phone address book. I reached Patrick McCray (my favorite historian of science and technology) when I was trying to reach Patrick McCully (my favorite police captain, the lead in the artscience of creative policing). Try searching them online. My cell phone is stupid its not affected by it’s context, my brain is.

I am sitting in my favorite brunch restaurant in Dallas.

Why is this relevant to this blog post? Because I now think differently about how my brain functions after reading this book. And in January I start (co) teaching a graduate seminar on Experimental Publishing and Curating. I will redesign the seminar based on this book. My previous syllabus is clearly erroneous and based on incorrect understanding of the brain.

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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.