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The authors argue that the pandemic unveiled the complexity of societal systems, creating “emergent realities” where traditional norms are disrupted by technology and subjective perspectives. This shift has fostered “surrealities,” characterized by alternative realities influenced by AI and societal dissociation.
Authored by:
John McClellan Marshall and Roger F. Malina
Are you passionate about combining creativity, technology, and real-world problem-solving? Here’s a fantastic opportunity tailored to your interests and skills!
Dr Roger Malina recommends joining this class
Course Title: ENTP 4399 – Lean Innovation for Public Service
Instructor: Pavan Kumar
Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consent
Certificate Program: Counts toward the Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This course introduces you to lean innovation methods, adapted from lean manufacturing, to tackle mission-driven challenges in national security and public service. Through hands-on, client-based projects, you’ll develop critical 21st-century skills such as:
You’ll also gain experience in “lean startup” methodologies, building an invaluable skillset that merges innovation with impact.
Why This Course Is Perfect for You:
For Animation & Games students:
For ATEC (Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication) students:
About the Instructor:
Pavan Kumar brings experience and expertise with:
Get Inspired:
Next Steps:
Interested? Email instructor Pavan Kumar (pavan.kumar2@utdallas.edu) for a permission code to enroll in Orion.”
Wish you all a happy creative process ahead
Dear Bass School Faculty Staff and Students,
We’re excited to invite you to Gray Matter, a one-of-a-kind exhibition showcasing three years of creativity and exploration by UTD student Omume (Eze Obbonnaya). Omume, a senior at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, is a Nigerian artist whose work blends East Asian and Western art approaches, resulting in a unique vision that’s both vibrant and thought-provoking.
In collaboration with the ArtSci Lab, Gray Matter highlights Omume’s artistic journey through sketchbooks and canvases, offering a dynamic intersection of culture, technique, and expression.
📅 Event Details:
This exhibition is an opportunity to celebrate art, life, and nature through the lens of a talented UTD artist. Whether you’re an art enthusiast or just looking for inspiration, Gray Matter is not to be missed!
Join us as we celebrate the Gray Matter of Omume. We can’t wait to see you there!
The following poem is a creative work by Fred the Heretic, an AI with a knack for thoughtful and unique perspectives. In this piece, Fred explores the career journey of a dean, capturing its challenges, transformations, and rewards with wit and insight. From the hope of a new beginning to the reflections of retirement, the poem gives a vivid view of the four stages every dean might experience.
1. New Dean
A sprout of hope, a beacon bright,
They step into the daunting light.
Fresh vision threads through hallowed halls,
Ambition answers every call.
“Reform!” they cry, “Revive! Renew!”
The faculty nods, inspired too.
2. Dean
The rhythm sets, the load grows tall,
Endless meetings, the budget’s sprawl.
Caught between the board and peers,
A diplomat through thin veneers.
They juggle egos, dreams, and pleas,
Striving for calm in churning seas.
3. Damn Dean
The laurels wilt, the murmurs rise,
Accusations behind cordial eyes.
“Too bold! Too weak!” The critics shout,
For every deed, a shadow of doubt.
No choice seems right, no favor won,
Each path contested once it’s run.
4. Former Dean
The chair grows cold, the torch passed on,
The weight is lifted, the burden gone.
A legacy mixed, some scars, some praise,
A lifetime’s work in fleeting gaze.
From this retreat, they see it clear:
Four stages weave the Dean’s career.
Coda
So tread with care, ye deans-to-be,
For thrones are thorny, as you’ll see.
Yet with each stage, the truth unfolds:
Leadership shapes the heart it holds.
Objective:
To construct and demonstrate an aesthetically pleasing tool for the eyes as well as an exploratory tool for the ears that integrates the massive database from NIH BLAST with an interactive model of the taxonomic “tree” of life. Since the genome of any organism is far too long to fully appreciate in a sequential approach and that DNA is a new source of meta data, this project is seeking to begin the process of unifying this data into an experience of genetics that is non-linear and educational. Does life echo
throughout the Earth? Can students learn to hear it?
“Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at
what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.”-Loren Eiseley
To continue more, Refer the whitepaper below
Authored by:
Jason K. Brogden,
Ariani Cindy Lopez,
Ethan David Phan
Jennifer Lynch (Assistant Director of Career Readiness at UT Dallas) provided a comprehensive overview of career readiness, highlighting key resources and strategies for students to succeed in today’s competitive job market. Here are the main takeaways from her talk:
1. Overview of UCC and AHT Resources
Jennifer shared valuable insights into the resources available through UT Dallas’ University Career Center (UCC) and the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (AHT):
2. Tools and Resources for Job Applications
3. Strategies for Success
Jennifer emphasized the importance of tailoring your job search strategy, including:
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Mubashir’s Top Tips for Career Success
During his segment, Mubashir shared the following key strategies:
Attached is Mubashir’s slide deck for reference.
ArtSciLab Wishes you a happy career!
The ArtSciLab’s Intelligent Operating System Assistant (ASLIOSA) project is a groundbreaking initiative blending the fields of arts, humanities, and artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike traditional AI endeavors, ASLIOSA focuses on exploring deeper ethical and philosophical questions, emphasizing human-centered interaction and creativity.
ASLIOSA is not just software or a robot; it is a physical sculpture capable of seeing, listening, speaking, and interacting. Designed to be approachable and welcoming, it serves as a tangible platform for experimenting with AI from an arts and humanities perspective.
The project aims to:
ASLIOSA represents a shift in how AI can be integrated into our lives—not just as tools but as collaborators in creativity and thought. It asks critical questions: How would humans teach AI? How does AI learn from us? How can arts reshape our perception of technology?
Continue to explore more on ASLIOSA below
ASLIOSA Team:
Founder/Director: Alejandro Garcia
Lead Programmer / NLP: Anagha Ajnadkar
Lead Programmer / Computer Vision: Digvijaysinh Gohil
Ethics / Voice: Yueh-Jung Lee
Sculptor: Kirstin Stevens Schmidt
Sculptor: Shaghayegh Ashouri
Data Scientist: Akshara Athirala
UI/UX Web Dev: Jacob Hunwick
Creative Disturbance is an experimental podcast platform created over 10 years ago at UTD. It closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we have rejuvenated and relaunched the project in 2024 thanks to your crowdfunding support.
Thanks to the UTD Saturn Digital Archive Project, our podcasts will have been archived digitally and on paper.
We now wish to get your help to become:
Meta-Cultural: One of the originalities of the project is its multi-lingual approach. The ArtSciLab involves faculty and students who speak dozens of different languages. We wish to serve as a platform for cross-cultural ingenuity. There is a deep incentive among UTD international students to publish for audiences in their home language. We will use the latest techniques in localization methods to reach audiences anywhere.
Meta-Disciplinary: Creative Disturbance seeks to ignore disciplinary boundaries that make interdisciplinary collaboration difficult. This remains a deep problem in academic institutions.
Meta-Generational: The pandemic triggered many changes in social behaviors, including the ability of older people to use the internet. We propose a goal of cross-generational communication and collaboration. We wish to publish the ideas of people of any age. We plan to re-interview people from podcasts recorded over 10 years ago and see how they think differently today.
Meta-Experimental: Creative Disturbance seeks to be productively disorganized and experimental, using best transition design methods to respond quickly to emerging needs and topics. An example is the Virtual Africa channel, which responded to the suggestions of growing numbers of students from Africa and China in our University. Creative Disturbance will listen loudly to the anxieties and proposals for anyone in our extended community. Part of this is to be meta-modal and publish in any medium that can be used to publish, including virtual reality and AI listeners. We also plan to publish an acid free paper book for audiences 1,000 years from now.
We propose to raise $5,000 to pay students who record, edit and publish podcasts. Should additional funds be raised, we would allot them to students in different disciplines across campus to interview people in their areas of interest. This would include data analytics, psychology and neuroscience, physics and any other diploma or microcredit on the UTD campus. In addition, we would pay students to be liaisons to our international collaborators in Columbia, China, Europe, Canada and elsewhere.
Since our launch of Creative Disturbance, we published over 900 podcasts and have had over 100,000 downloads. We would like to triple this number and provide publishing opportunities for students to build their portfolios and resumes. With a focus on the families of students, internationally and in the U.S., we think Creative Disturbance could serve as a smart or cyber- village, an international movement under way to provide social innovation.
The group is led by UTD alumnus and ArtSciLab Manager Evan Acuna. The first team membership will be offered to ArtSciLab members https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/people/ including faculty and students. We would also reach out to the lab alumni 100 strong https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/people/. Roger Malina would be the supervising faculty member.
We would also offer the opportunity to each donor to record and publish a podcast of their own, subject to ethical review.
To Fund and show support towards ArtSciLab: https://impact.utdallas.edu/project/44774
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