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Jacob is an undergraduate student at the school of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communications at UT Dallas. He is focusing on product + graphic design and emerging technology. His personal research interests include anthropology, human behavior, mathematics, and phenomenology.

Jacobs interest in product design started in high school when he started a longboard company with his twin brother. Jacob worked with his brother designing and building custom longboards out of their garage.

Currently, Jacob is working on Creative Disturbance as a UX researcher and designer.

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CNMAT Visiting Researcher, Scot Gresham-Lancaster is a composer, performer, instrument builder, and educator. He is a Research Scientist at the ArtSci Lab @ UT Dallas. The focus of his research is in the sonification of data sets in tight relationships with visualizations, (multimodal representations). As a member of the HUB, he is an early pioneer of networked computer music and has developed many "cellphone operas". He has created a series of co-located international Internet performances and worked developing audio for several games and interactive products. He is an expert in educational technology. CV

Scot Gresham-Lancaster produces a series of podcasts for the Creative Disturbance podcast aggregate. His series is called "Sound and Data" and focuses on the use of sonification for Art, Science, and the Art/Science boundary. https://creativedisturbance.org/channel/sound-data/

He was a student of Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, John Chowning, Robert Ashley, Terry Riley, "Blue" Gene Tyrany, David Cope among others. He has been a composer in residence at Mills College. STEIM and the Djerassi Artist Residency Program. He has toured and recorded with the HUB, Alvin Curran, ROVA saxophone quartet. He has performed the music of Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, David Tudor. 

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Sharath Chandra Ram (Sharathchandra Ramakrishnan) is an applied cognitive scientist with a focus on developing machine listening and auditory interfaces using state-of-the-art AI models and algorithms. Previously as a cognitive neuroscience researcher, he studied networks of multimodal and audio cognition in sound and language processing, and is currently applying these learnings to understand how humans and animals perceive sound. As licensed amateur radio broadcaster and listener (callsign: VU3HPA), he is interested in communication theory and its science, extends his art-science practice with the sound and signals in wireless spectrum, and often tries to tie his writings and work to the realms of information policy , media governance and access to knowledge frameworks. He has been a Faculty at the Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology and has worked along with the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, prior to which he specialised in AI and interactive virtual environments at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.

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Aahlad “Al” Madireddy is a Full Stack Engineer and Software Engineering Manager who works with almost all the teams in the lab to create compelling websites and software for their research projects.

Al believes in the importance of creating software that is not only functional but intuitive, beautiful, and compelling for the user. He believes that the point of contact between the user and the software, whether it be a website or a command line interface, is one of the most important aspects of a software product, and puts a lot of care into making it great.

He works at the ArtSciLab during the school year, and interns during the summers. He has interned at Toyota Connected and the New York Times, and plans to continue that exploration of software, technology, and design after college. He currently works with technologies such as React, Node.js, Go, PHP, and Python in his projects, and plans to learn and explore more. In addition to being a software engineer, Al is also a photographer and calligrapher in his free time.

Al is currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science as a National Merit Scholar from the University of Texas at Dallas, planning on graduating in 2021.

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Gyu Tae (Andrew) Oh is studying Design and Production in the school of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communications (ATEC) at University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently working on the Creative Disturbance project as a Senior Sound Designer / Production Improvement Lead.

Gyu Tae (Andrew) Oh

I recently graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas specializing in Arts and Technology(ATEC) with a keen interest in UI/UX design, information architecture, graphic design, product design, and photography. I currently work as a UI/UX designer at the ArtSciLab (artscilab.utdallas.edu) at The University of Texas at Dallas. I was in charge of designing and improving the user interface and user experience on the ARTECA (arteca.mit.edu) platform in collaboration with MIT Press &amp; Leonardo Journal. In addition, in my master thesis project, I designed an application, ArtSide (kuoweilee.com/artside), enhancing the connection between cities and citizenship, that demonstrates my knowledge about interaction design, user experience, and information architecture.

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Yvan Tina is the Deputy Co-Director of Performative Research of the ArtSciLab and a PhD candidate at the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas. Yvan holds a PhD in performance studies from Aix-Marseille University, in France. His dissertation focuses on the notion of theatrically and how it is affected by the use of artificial life in performance art and installation. Additionally, he is in charge of developing the Virtual Africa platform which seek to promote the encounters between the arts and the technosciences in Africa and within the African diaspora.

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Aadhavan Sibi Mathivanan is an Electrical Engineering Graduate Student at The University of Texas at Dallas where he concentrates on RF and Microwave systems engineering, circuit design and measurement. He is passionate about music production, audio mixing & mastering, and putting his signal processing background to good use as a part of the Creative Disturbance team.

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Madison Larmeu is an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Dallas pursuing the Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) degree. Her ambition is to become a User Experience (UX) designer to create better communication between people and the devices of today and tomorrow. She has a passion for improving the lives of others and hopes that one day her work might improve the world for better.

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Oskar Olsson is a senior member of the production team at Creative Disturbance in the Art-Sci Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. His interests lie in experimental publishing, audio-for-video, and foley production for film.

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Nicholas Lormand is studying 3D animation at the University of Texas at Dallas, aiming to graduate with an undergraduate degree in Arts and Technology and a minor in Computer Science. His focus is on tool development and rigging for animation. His other interests include UX/UI research and design, service design, web development, and graphic design. He is passionate about cartoons, music, esports, and his dog-like cat.

As a UX/UI researcher and designer of the lab, he researches into the user base of Creative Disturbance to design a more usable site. Researching consists of reading, conducting usability tests and interviews on users, and inspecting competing companies. His goal is to redesign the site to automate processes for all users and to strengthen the communication between the Creative Disturbance team and the content producers.

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Monica is a graphic designer, illustrator, and sound editor living in Dallas, Texas.

She currently attends the University of Texas at Dallas, pursuing a BA in Design and Production with a focus on sound production and editing. In her free time, Monica likes to care for cacti, and study classical and jazz guitar.

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Every year, thousands of Indian students and hundreds of Tamil students make their way across the oceans towards to the land of opportunities in pursuit of their dream to master their craft. This channel is a way of trying to trace that journey by sharing the experiences of other students who are just as much trying to find their way through amazingly rewarding maze. Graduate Students Gautam Sharma and Aadhavan Sibi and with their interesting list of guests from different walks of life go through their experiences right from their Visa Interviews through finding themselves among the sea of familiar yet strange face to the dreaded job hunt. Strap on your seatbelts, we are flying to meet Uncle Sam.

In this episode of A mudhal America varai, “Visa Villangam” Gautam Sharma and Aadhavan Sibi discuss the villangams involved in the nerve-wracking process of getting your visa approved and your flight experience. From the WhatsApp groups, to the long queue at the consulate, to the harrowing experience of flying out of country all by yourself, none of us did this without some help from other fellow students. This is just us trying to tell other people that they are not alone in feeling that way, by sharing our experience of how we dealt with all of that ourselves.

Listen to this episode by visiting <a href="https://creativedisturbance.org/podcast/visa-வில்லங்கம்/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visa வில்லங்கம் at Creative Disturbance</a>.

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<a href="http://dev.atec.io/lab-member/ela-detecio/">Graziella “Ela” Detecio</a> worked on the ArtSciLab team as a Junior Designer. During her time here, she contributed to the design of project and marketing materials of the lab. As it’s time for her to move on to the next step in her career, Yvan Tina, team leader of Creative Disturbance, sat down with Ela and asked her a few questions as a part of her transition out of the ArtSciLab.

<strong>What attracted her to the ArtSciLab position?</strong>

Ela found the ArtSciLab through cofounder, Cassini Nazir. This job was a chance for her to gain design and marketing experience and work toward her career goals: consulting or client-based work for a creative marketing or design firm.

<strong>How did Ela rate her experience the ArtSciLab overall?</strong>

Towards the end, the position was not exactly what Ela expected it to be. She was expecting more graphic design and marketing work from the position and would have preferred it if there were clear goals because some of the ideas were good but seemed to “trickle into obscurity.” Creative Disturbance, though, was an overall good experience.

<strong>Is there any new skill or insight that Ela has acquired through the experience?</strong>

Ela valued the experience running the ArtSciLab website, as well as the exposure to academic research conducted in a lab.

<strong>What would she change from her experience?</strong>

After Ela’s mentor Cassini transitioned, she felt lost in her role. A more consistent art/design supervisor would have been ideal.

<strong>According to Ela, what makes a good manager and what should be their attributes?</strong>

Ela says it’s important for a manager to set an overall vision for the team by identifying practical goals to work towards. She valued Roger encouraging students to pursue their interests within the lab

<strong>What are some difficulties of teamwork?</strong>

Communication with the team is a difficulty. She found that horizontal hierarchy presents challenges for the younger student workers. Using Trello and Airtable for transparency and progress tracking can improve these issues within the lab.

<strong>What project management experience did she learn?</strong>

“I learned a lot” Ela says. The structured nature of Creative Disturbance taught her that organization can lead to improved productivity.

<strong>Where is she heading next?</strong>

Ela is joining the Student Union and Activities Advisory Board (SUAAB) at UT Dallas to work with the marketing chair on developing awareness of SUAAB on campus.

Graziella's Journey as a Junior Designer at the ArtSciLab

Creative Disturbance is an international and multilingual podcast platform that facilitates collaboration between individuals in art, science, and technology communities. It was created in 2014 by the ArtSciLab of the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication of UT Dallas, with the support of The MIT Press and Leonardo/ISAST. It is primarily run by UT Dallas students, with oversight and assistance from faculty.

Creative Disturbance has been made possible thanks to the success of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and the generous contribution of donors. On December 8, 2014,133 backers pledged $21,511 to keep Creative Disturbance running. The podcasts are since then recorded and produced by individuals who have an interest in art, science, design, education or technology. As promised during the campaign, the funding generated through this initiative has served to award international grants to students and young professionals across the world (Canada, China, Columbia, Egypt, Kenya, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, and Turkey so far). In return, the students have created a series of podcasts of their interests.

After four years of activity, Creative Disturbance has covered a wide range of topics such as the advancements of generative art and virtual reality, the ethics and aesthetics of artificial life art, the field of sonification, the meaning of Persian sculpture and mythology, the aesthetics of Chinese contemporary new media art, the dynamics of African diasporas and the Afrofuturist movement, the evolution of digital art in Latin America, the emergence of interactive architecture and synthetic biology, the impact of climate change in environmental art, the story of women engineering, the relationships between gender and economics, technology, race, and sexuality, etc. Today, more than 40 channels have been created by a network of local and international collaborators in the fields of art, science and technology. Creative Disturbance is 480 podcasts published in 16 languages listened in more than 145 countries for a total of 94,408 downloads. We intend to continue this effort by promoting multilinguism, transdisciplinarity and experimentation in the next phases of our development.

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Creative Disturbance is an international and multilingual podcast platform that facilitates collaboration between individuals in art, science, and technology communities. It was created in 2014 by the ArtSciLab of the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication of UT Dallas, with the support of The MIT Press and Leonardo/ISAST. It is primarily run by UT Dallas students, with oversight and assistance from faculty.

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Authored by Scot Greshman-Lancaster (with co-authors Sharath Chandra Ram and Roger Malina), this paper discusses a rough taxonomy of data sonification methods. It summarizes the discoveries and results of ongoing in-depth exploration in this area of research, and uses some of the ArtSciLab’s own modules based on this taxonomy to allow listeners of data and users of machines to make better, faster decisions and help distribute these techniques on a larger scale.

<a href="http://dev.atec.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/09/ScotGresham-Lancaster_WaysOfListening_ArtSciLab_v1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scot Gresham-Lancaster: Ways Of Listening v. 1.01</a>

Ways of Listening for Information: A Vague Taxonomy of Sonification Techniques

<p> Colleagues:</p>



<p>Under the leadership of ASL member Scot Gresham Lancaster,  Sharath Chandra Ram and I have just submitted a proposal to the US National Science foundation: </p>



<p style="text-align:center" class="has-huge-font-size">AstroSounds: Developing spectrally based multivariate time series data sonification player for Astrophysics </p>



<p class="has-large-font-size">Overview:</p>



<p>We  are going to use auditory cognition techniques of speech perception for  the listening that astrophysicist would be asked to do with a  spectrally based multivariate time series data player.</p>



<p>LISTENING TO DATA (Sonification) is a new tool needed for analyzing the ever growing data cloud. Our work is perfecting the many ways to make better decisions by not just visualizing, but also LISTENING TO DATAs This has lead us to helping others in many fields, neuroscience, business,<br>general  physics etc. but now we are returning our attention back to  astrophysics and the advantages that the integration of audio brings to  the data science interfaces that are such an integral part of  astrophysical research.</p>



<p>We have developed a new approach to classifying the techniques of data to audio conversion and the specific types of applications that can be offered using the advanced techniques available to top digital audio experts to realize those conversions. Collaborating with our colleagues at UC Berkeley, Stanford and other institutions, we have been sharing our ideas and approaches to the sonic realizations that highlight  features blurred or misrepresented in visualizations. We have exposed  artifacts occluded within only imaged representations of data. Also we  can simultaneously represent many other dimensions not visually  represented in the complex time varying graphs. Data visualization tools  have successfully been augmented to allow more rapid and accurate  decision making in the context of ever growing data sets.</p>



<p>We continue to create training modules to learn to listen, explore and pass testing of sonifed data to interpret data as information via ongoing cognitive testing. Working from our existing, tested and published "fuzzy" taxonomy of classifications and techniques we will use 2nd order sonification that remaps information systematically via spectral analysis and auditory spectrum resynthesis of time series data. Additionally, we will use our machine listening techniques to find spectral similarities in the<br>overwhelmingly large amounts of available data in the existing open archives. Using new techniques of binaural audio augmented reality, we will allow researchers to move through the soundscape created by time varying multidimensional data sets. This is based on our existing and cognitively tested earlier work in this area.<br></p>



<p class="has-large-font-size">Broader Impacts:</p>



<p>The adoption of sound in the market of Smart Speakers (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) and Audio AR (Bose, Onset,  etc. ) have shown the growing more dominant place for audio oriented  design. For the first time we and leading with astrophysics, we will  move to scale across all areas, that are becoming dependent on data  science techniques and outcomes. The perception of multidimensional  auditory information will lead to new discoveries that would not be made  by visual means alone.</p>



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Do you want a "Data Sonification Player" for Astrophysical Data or your own data?

<h2>1. Listening to Data</h2>
LISTENING TO DATA (Sonification) is the new tool needed for analyzing the ever growing data cloud. Our work is perfecting the many ways to make better decisions by not just visualizing, but simply <strong>LISTENING TO DATA</strong>. The existing data tools rely almost exclusively on flawed elaborate interactive visualization of data. Data Science, AI and Big Data industries are only developing a wide variety of data visualization tools to allow rapid and accurate decision making. The time to bring in at least one more, our richest sense in many ways, <strong>LISTENING TO DATA</strong> into the mainstream!
<h2>2. The weakness of the visual</h2>
Although the human eye is a sophisticated tool, it can also be easily tricked. Consider some of these weaknesses associated with visual inspection:
<ul>
 	<li>Unreliability - Browse through a set of optical illusions to get a sense of just how unreliable the human eye can be.</li>
 	<li>Imprecision - The human eye is not capable of making precise measurements, especially on a very small scale.</li>
</ul>
<h2>3. Breakthroughs: The Data Stethoscope Project</h2>
The Data Stethoscope Project at the UTD ArtSciLab has:
<ul>
 	<li>Developed a comprehensive set of audio tools for turning data to sound.</li>
 	<li>Developed a data sonification apprenticeship program (HERMES)</li>
 	<li>Developed training modules to learn to listen and interpret data as information</li>
 	<li>Cognitive Testing and providing certificates of completion to 100s individuals</li>
</ul>
Traditional Sonifications have been limited to a “proof of concept” or “artistic expression” context of the 25+ year history. We prefer the term LISTENING TO DATA. We have moved beyond Sonification and are prepared to scale up the distribution of our research findings.
<ul>
 	<li>LEARN (to LISTEN TO DATA )</li>
 	<li>EXPLORE (new sound adventures)</li>
 	<li>TEST (to find and improve on the best techniques)</li>
</ul>
<h3>3.1 Some tested USE CASES:</h3>
<ul>
 	<li>DATA LISTENING Graduate Business Students have complemented and augmented visualization work with proven access to more dimensions of data at once.</li>
 	<li>LISTEN TO DATA observing visually demanding experimental processes in real time, data listening has been proven effective.</li>
 	<li>LISTEN TO DATA using the new techniques we have pioneered for signalling weather and traffic conditions (and more) while driving, cooking in the kitchen etc.</li>
</ul>
<strong>We have created ways to standardize sounds of various types of audio representation of data!</strong>
<h2>4. Key Partners</h2>
Our research has determined that we have Key Partners that we will be targeting in Business Analytics, Data Science and Smart Speaker Market We plan to work in these areas with these resources:
<ul>
 	<li> Web based general distribution (Tableau, Javascript)</li>
 	<li>Professional Users via dynamic notebooks (Jupyter, Custom Apps)</li>
 	<li>Consumer Informatics via Sonic Alerts (Smart Speakers in Home and Car)</li>
</ul>
<h2>5. LET (Learning Exploring Testing)</h2>
<strong>LET</strong> us move forward with this approach which is designed and tested to assure success as the use of these new tools becomes a part of the workflow at the enterprise scale in the key industries of Business analytics, Research sector, Educational sector, and the growing Consumer “INFO sounds” market.

By focusing on <strong>LISTENING TO DATA</strong> We create the value proposition that will develop auditory interfaces to complement, augment and in some cases, replace visualization for increased efficiency, productivity in business and science workflows and beyond.

Data Stethoscope

Data-Stethoscope

A collaboration of artists, designers, and neuroscientists, Data Stethoscope is a multimodal data sonification and visualization of function MRI brain scans of individuals 20 to 80 years old. The desktop application allows this brain data to be explored sonically. This project, funded by DARPA, gives neuroscientists a way to “hear” how connections change in the aging brain.

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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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Thanks to more than a decade of experience working in the realm of film entertainment (ranging from film festival management to independent film production) and in the entrepreneurial world (in the tech, non-profit, and media sectors), Garcia Topete's research and practice cover and converge in three main areas under the broader scopes of Art-Science and Experimental Publishing of the ArtSciLab: transdisciplinary intelligence, innovation and collaboration theory, filmmaking research, and public engagement design.

Alex Garcia Topete

Chaz is interested in alternative modes of scholarship and publishing. As a PhD student in the ArtSciLab, he is designing experiments that tease out new ways of knowledge production, curation and dissemination.

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Maisha is an Applied Cognition and Neuroscience Graduate student at UT Dallas where she works for Dr. Basak’s Lifespan Neuroscience and Cognition lab. She’s passionate about writing and talking about behavior, cognition, and tech. She hopes to use her blended background in research and writing as well as her work at the ArtSciLab to help further science communication among diverse audiences.

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<p> ArtSciLab Colleagues:</p>



<p>I would like to draw your  attention to the Recent YASMIN WWWASP discussion (the Who, what where  of our artscience community of practice)- Led by Guillermo Munoz with  several colleagues across the world (see at end of this post). The  YASMIN list is an international list of artscience professionals and  amateurs and observers.</p>



<p>The discussion is now open to any colleague on the Tasmin list- we look forward to your thoughts: If you aren't on <a href="https://ntlab.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions_ntlab.gr">YASMIN</a>: </p>



<p>I just posted this to YASMIN</p>



<p>"I would like to pick up on Salome Cuesta proposal for ‘micro-actions’ in our<br>art-science communities of practice, and Diamond Berverly’s  idea of<br>a ‘continous conundrum (see below).</p>



<p>After 30 years as Executive Editor of Leonardo, for the first time I am<br>now deeply engaged as a practitioner in art science collaborations. I<br>like
 to joke that astrophysics was so easy ! We all agreed on the success 
criteria and used the same concepts, methods and terminology. Plus we 
were very well funded in comparison with artscience research.</p>



<p>  Thanks to Guillermo Munoz and colleagues at the University of Valencia I  received a PhD in Art, so I am now an ArtScience ‘postdoc’ with a PhD  in astrophysics and a PhD in art !</p>



<p>As James Leach pointed out in  his Leonardo article <a href="https://cnrs.academia.edu/JamesLeach">(Extending Contexts, Making Possibilities: An  Introduction to Evaluating the Projects - James Leach)</a> many many art science collaborations ‘fail’ in achieving  their original objectives.</p>



<p>In our ArtSciLab  we have been arguing that there is a very big step between inter/multi  disciplinary collaborations and ‘trans’ disciplinary collaborations  which bridge very very different disciplines with very very different  personal and collective success criteria, and very very  different often  contradictory methods, concepts , terminologies-</p>



<p>These are in Diamond Berverly’s term ‘conundral;- see Merriam Webster</p>



<p>“The  exact origin of conundrum isn’t known with certainty. What is known is  that the word has been in use since the early 1600s, and that it had  various spellings, such as conimbrum, quonundrum, conuncrum, and  quadundrum, before the current spelling was finally established sometime  in the mid-17th century. One theory of origin suggests that the word  was coined as a parody of Latin by students at Oxford University, where  it appears to have enjoyed particular popularity in its “word play” or  “pun” sense. While the prevalent sense in this century is that of the  seemingly unanswerable question or problem, frequently applied to heady  dilemmas involving ethics, sociology, or economics, the word is  sometimes so loosely applied to anything enigmatic as to be synonymous  with puzzle or mystery.”</p>



<p>One of the strategies we have been 
trying is “micro-projects” in Cuesta’s terminology- we define them as 
short duration ( weeks), projects which require no money or cash, only 
gift exchange of time and access to facilities, expertise etc ( the gift
 exchange vocabulary comes from James Leach )</p>



<p>In the ArtSciLab we  are approached continuously by ‘stem’ professionals who want to  collaborate. Interestingly these range from physical sciences and  engineering to the brain and Behavioural sciences to business and social  sciences…</p>



<p>Often  the stem professionals who reach out to us,  “they” have antiquated ideas of what making art involves or results in  today. Often they view art as less primary in the ‘tree of knowledge” (i.e. in a branch not in the trunk). </p>



<p>Often  they have very different methods , concepts, terminology (we are  trying to develop transdisciplinary apprenticeships as part of the  approach). Mauricio Mejia at ASU, Alex Topete, colleagues, and I are  currently submitting a workshop proposal on applying translation studies  methods to transdisciplinary collaborations.</p>



<p>If a micro-project doesn't succeed, its likely that a significant project won't in our experience.</p>



<p>I am delighted that a student research in our ArtSciLab , Diamond Beverly, has proposed:<br>“how  do we go about including diverse voices and fostering heterogeneous  approaches instead unconsciously excluding people from the conversation  and thus creating a continuous conundrum.” which highlights the implicit  bias of the artscience community towards people in academia with its  ethnic, gender, socio-economic and other implicit social biases.</p>



<p>Maybe the non -academic and  younger members of Yasmin should weigh in, just as from Diamond Berverly:<br>I was very intrigued with your post last week when you  emphasized<br>educational spaces and work shop methodologies. I would like to know<br>how you define micro-actions. I also find such maker spaces and<br>hackathons a good step into the future of collaborative educational<br>space. A question that persists however is how these spaces find their<br>audience?</p>



<p>And by this I mean how do we go about including diverse voices and fostering heterogeneous approaches instead unconsciously excluding people from the conversation and thus creating a continuous conundrum.</p>



<p>So all Latin  students on Yasmin go at it :<br>"One theory of origin of ‘conundrum” suggests that the word was coined  as a parody of Latin by students at Oxford University, where it appears  to have enjoyed particular popularity in its “word play” or “pun” sense.  While the prevalent sense in this century is that of the seemingly  unanswerable question or problem, frequently applied to heady dilemmas  involving ethics, sociology, or economics, the word is sometimes so  loosely applied to anything enigmatic as to be synonymous with puzzle or  mystery."</p>



<p>Or maybe living in a continuous conundrum is a  desirable state ? Certainly it is a state that drives our ArtScience work  and is generative of desired outcomes.</p>



<p>Roger Malina</p>



<p>P.S These are the invited discussants:</p>



<p>Jadwiga
 Charzynska: I am the director of LAZNIA CCA in Gdansk since 2004 and in
 our program, one of the most important points is the Art + Science 
Meeting project, which we organize regularly from 2011. It’s really 
unique program in Poland presented Art / Sci projects.<br>Links: <a href="http://www.laznia.pl/instytucja/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.laznia.pl/instytucja/</a></p>



<p>Joao
 Silveira: Brazilian entrepreneur, choreographer and pharmacist. Was a 
Harvard Fellow (Le Laboratoire/ 2017-2019) and currently is a research 
fellow at the ArtSciLab – UT Dallas, and CienciArte Lab – Fiocruz.<br>Jing
 Chen: Associate professor of Arts and associate director of Art and 
Cultural Innovation and Creativity Lab of Nanjing University.<br>Gustavo
 Ariel Schwartz.: Physicist and writer. Scientist of the Spanish 
National Research Council (CSIC) at the Materials Physics Center. 
Founder director of the Mestizajes Program, at the Donostia 
International Physics Center, whose purpose is to explore and cross the 
borders among Art, Science, Literature and Humanities.</p>



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Micro ArtScience Actions (MASA)

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<p class="has-large-font-size"><a href="https://medium.com/@looplogic/halloween-transmissions-machine-listening-from-the-diary-of-ana%C3%AFs-nin-276f67d71068?sk=336e1b3958336f3ee0952e0bbbb3d4f5">Full article @ Medium.</a></p>

Halloween Transmissions: Machine Listening from the Diary of Anaïs Nin

Experimental Publishing and Curation

Culture and AI

Joao Silveira

Lauren Bernal is a graduate from the Bachelor of Science program in Psychology at the University of Texas at Dallas. During her academic career at UT Dallas, she has Research Assisted Dr. Walter J. Dowling’s Music Perception &amp; Cognition Lab as well as Dr. Karen Prager’s Couples Daily Lives Lab. During an independent study, she investigated positive affect induced by musical tempos in the fall of 2018. Over the summer of 2018, she interned for UT Southwestern’s Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care where she researched Cognitive Impairments Influenced by Parental Relationships in Major Depressive Disorder.

In addition to research, she has been President of the Sigma Kappa Delta English Honors Society and founder of Eastfield’s Outdoor Club. She is also a member of Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology, Phi Theta Kappa, National Honors Society, and The National Society of Leadership and Success.

She began her journey with the ArtSciLab as Dr. Kathryn Evans’ Research Assistant during the implementation of <a href="https://cdash.atec.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CDASH</a> curriculum at UT Dallas in spring 2019. Her other projects: Art-Based Learning for Business (ABLB), eSport Therapy (ET) in collaboration with Mavs Gaming, and Tale of Two Thinking Systems (ToTTS).

Lauren Ashley Bernal

Michael Hart is a summer intern in the ArtSci Lab. He is currently studying Computer Science at The University of North Texas. His interest is in Video Game Design and Video Game Development. He has started working in the lab since May 2019 and has been involved with the Mavs Gaming collaboration.

Michael Hart

Thouseef Syed is a graduate student pursuing his MS in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience specialising in Computational modeling and Intelligent Systems. He’s a researcher in computational linguistics and deep natural language processing, and has recently published an IEEE paper which focused on prediction of Mutual funds using cascaded Support Vector Machine (SVM) models.

He is currently developing a virtual interactive lab assistant called BESSO which essentially provides an academic, research and admin support to the distinguished members of the lab. Over the past, he is mentored several students in hackathons in the field of Internet of things (IoT) and data analytics. He invests his free time in developing a deep learning approach to facial perception using computer vision that could potentially enhance the current technologies.

Thouseef Syed

<p> The Initiative to Enhance the Esports Player Cognitive Performance &amp; Wellbeing. </p>



<div class="wp-block-file"><a href="https://dev.atec.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/10/ESportCyberathleteDevelopmentAnnotatedBibliography-October2019.pdf"> Annotated bibliography: The Emergence of Esports. (v. 1.0)</a><a href="https://dev.atec.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/10/ESportCyberathleteDevelopmentAnnotatedBibliography-October2019.pdf" class="wp-block-file__button" download>Download</a></div>



<p>This Esports Cyberathlete Development (ECD) project launched by the University of  Texas at Dallas’ ArtSciLab aims to contribute to design one of the first new sports of the 21st century.</p>



<p>Our efforts aim to:<br> (1) Promote positive values obtained from participating on an Esports team;<br> a. Investigate the enhanced cognitive abilities through the strategically-complex gameplay of Esports<br> b. Investigate the positive social developments that occur in and out of the Esports environment<br> (2) Focus on relieving the stigmatized universe of Esports concerning gender stereotypes and effects on intellectual performance;<br> a. Our research aims to increase overall inclusivity among various demographics and how its benefits are not discriminatory towards any gender<br> (3) Help to integrate the skills learned by the Esports players into their lives during and after their Esports careers;<br> a. Analysis of cognitive skills acquired by gamers during their gameplay, how such skills can generally transfer to real-world application, and to increase their executive longevity.</p>



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Esports Cyberathlete Development (ECD): An Annotated Bibliography

This Esport Cyberathlete Development project launched by the University of Texas at Dallas’ ArtSciLab aims to contribute to design one of the first new sports of the 21 st century.

Esport Cyberathlete Development

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This E-Sport Cyberathlete Development project launched by the University of Texas at Dallas’ ArtSciLab aims to contribute to design one of the first new sports of the 21 st  century.

Cassini Nazir is a designer of conversations, curriculum, and interfaces. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas where he teaches classes in interaction design. He is also Director of Design and Research for the ArtSciLab, a transdisciplinary research lab helping the arts, science, and technology communities by pursuing initiatives of societal urgency and cultural timeliness.

Cassini Nazir

Dr. Lee is a Research Associate at the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology. Dr. Lee has a Ph.D. in science education, an M.S. in applied cognitive science, M.A.s in science education and in emerging media and communication. She has global experiences of K-12 science education and of teaching undergraduate science.

Her research interests include interdisciplinary approach in STEM education, understanding of nature of science, views on science, technology, and society (STS) in science education, and cognitive process in STEM learning. Dr. Lee recently completed the NSF funded engineering education study, “Engineering Ethics as an Expert-Guided and Socially Situated Activity,” which explored multi-layered ethics understanding of engineering students through cognitive ethnography.

Eun Ah Lee

Kathryn Evans, Ph.D., is a singer, conductor, director, producer and researcher in arts and science. Dr. Evans was the Associate Dean for the Arts of the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas from 1995 to 2010. Dr. Evans holds M. A. degrees in Mathematics and in Music and a Ph.D. in Art and Technology, with an emphasis on arts education in the 21st century. She is a member of the Art-Sci Lab in the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, under the direction of Dr. Roger Malina, conducting research in music and science education. Her doctoral dissertation “ Does musical study enhance academic skills in undergraduate non-music majors?” studied skills transfer for music study to academic skills in STEM subjects. Her current project CDASH (Curriculum Development in Arts, Science and Humanities) explores the current state of cross-disciplinary curriculum at the college and high school level. She is currently developing curriculum for a music and science minor at UT Dallas, including her course “Music, Science and Technology” which will serve as the core course for the minor.

Kathryn Evans

Anderson is in the Aesthetics Ph.D. program in Arts and Humanities. She holds an MFA in Painting from UMASS, Amherst, 1983, where she began painting outsized abstract paintings. From there, she had several exhibits and solo shows. Then in 2014, she earned an MA in Archaeology from Leiden University in The Netherlands. Concentrating on the Prehistory of Northwest Europe and the Middle East, she wrote her thesis on the petroglyphs of the Geghama Mountains in Armenia. She completed research on Neolithic and Chalcolithic pottery in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, she worked on a large Late Bronze Age rescue cemetery site. It was shown primarily in Europe since 2008 and in 2012 was chosen to participate in the 8th Biennale in Gyumri, Armenia with an installation entitled "Wings for the Women of Armenia". She has shown work in artist-in-residencies for ten years, and her work appears in publications from The Netherlands, Latvia, and Germany.

Anderson is scheduled for exhibits in Europe for the summer of 2020. She is also an editor for EXARC, the Dutch Experimental Archaeology Journal and serves as an assistant editor for ARAMAZD, the Armenian Journal of Archeology. Her upcoming dissertation will center on the public land art project Connemara, here in North Texas.

Linda Anderson

2014 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CDASH CALL FOR INTER-DISCIPLINARY
ART-SCIENCE-HUMANITIES CURRICULA- Deadline JULY 30 2014
CDASH : Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities
<a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/cdash/" target="_blank">http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/cdash/</a>
Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina and UT Dallas faculty member
Kathryn Evans are inventorying examples of courses and curricula that
are in the art-science--humanities field such as courses on art and
biology, music and mathematics, art and chemistry, dance and
environmental sciences, etc.
The current CDASH inventory is available at
<a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/cdash/" target="_blank">http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/cdash/</a>  includes over 130 courses.
Individuals who have taught an art-science-humanities course at the
university or secondary-school level, in formal or informal settings,
are invited to contact Kathryn Evans, with details of their
curriculum, at <a href="mailto:kcevans@utdallas.edu">kcevans@utdallas.edu</a>.  Please send the URL (if
available), title and number of the course(s), a short description,
the level offered (graduate or undergraduate) and the department(s) in
which the course(s) was offered.  We are also interested in the
“history” of your course – when it was offered, if you had any issues
with approval, and how you developed the course, lessons learned. Full
syllabi may be sent to Paul Thomas at  <a href="mailto:p.thomas@unsw.edu.au">p.thomas@unsw.edu.au</a> to be
included in a cloud wiki at <a href="http://artsci.unsw.wikispaces.net/" target="_blank">http://artsci.unsw.wikispaces.net/</a>.
We are interested in the broad range of all forms of the performing
arts (including music, dance, theatre and film) and the visual arts
(both traditional and new media); and connecting to all the sciences.
We are looking for submissions of in-person class room, on-line and
hybrid blended courses. We also include technology related courses
that are art-science focused.
The CDASH site also lists programs and centers that are devoted to
Art- Science-Humanities research and curriculum.
This project is overseen by a working group consisting of: Kathryn
Evans, UT Dallas, Roger F Malina, UT Dallas, Paul Thomas, University
of New South Wales, Meredith Tromble, San Francisco Art Institute and
the Leonardo LEAF Chair David Familian, University of California,
Irvine.
This project is co sponsored by Leonardo Education and Art Forum
(LEAF): <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/LEAF.html" target="_blank">http://www.leonardo.info/isast/LEAF.html</a>; The ArtSciLab,
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD): <a href="https://artscilab.atec.io/" target="_blank">https://artscilab.atec.io/</a>
and the  College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
<a href="http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/</a>.
We also bring your attention to the call for MA and PhD Thesis
abstracts in Art, Science and Technology:
<a href="http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/" target="_blank">http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/</a>
The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) is a comprehensive database of
Ph.D., Masters and MFA thesis abstracts on the intersection of art,
science and technology. Individuals receiving advanced degrees in
disciplines that investigate philosophical, historical or critical
applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to
submit abstracts of their theses for consideration. Selected abstracts
are published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Authors of most highly
ranked abstracts are invited to submit an article for publication in
Leonardo. The aim of the LABS database is to give visibility to
interdisciplinary work. Annual submission deadline: 30 June. For more
information, contact Sheila Pinkel at &lt;<a href="mailto:spinkel@earthlink.net">spinkel@earthlink.net</a>&gt;.

2014 Fourth International CDASH Call

<h6>*This post is in English as well as Korean. We hope to reach a larger international population by creating new and exciting content in different languages.</h6>
<h2>The First Step</h2>
Everything starts with making the first step. This first step may seem small and unimportant like an apple seed, but it has a potential to bear a lot of beautiful fruits. When Dr. Kathryn Evans started the CDASH (Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities) website in 2012, “as a both a resource for faculty who engaged in or were interested in engaging in art-science-humanities curriculum; and as a data collection point where these types of curriculum could be surveyed for innovation and sustainability<sup>1</sup>,” it was a small, individual class project. CDASH collects information and syllabi of courses which aim to teach integrated content across arts, sciences, and humanities. CDASH relies on collaboration because all the courses are submitted by instructors who teach those courses. Dr. Evans once mentioned that even she doubted about this type of collaboration, worrying about how many courses would be actually submitted when she opened the website and asked for courses. Then she was pleasantly surprised because around 100 courses were submitted from all over the nation and even outside the United States. Apparently, there were many people who were interested in cross-disciplinary teaching across arts, science, and humanities and they were eager to share their ideas with other people. So it began. The CDASH project made the first step.
<h2>The Journey</h2>
As we all know, the road is not always a straight highway when we travel. There are ups and downs, crossings, and many bends in which we cannot see what to come next. After the initial success, the CDASH website was slowly getting cold. These ups and downs happen to many sites and blogs. Some of them are abandoned and forgotten, but some of them are rebooted and revived. What makes a difference depends on the right choice made at the right point. When we travel, we need to make a choice at the crossing. If we make a wrong turn, we will probably waste our time and effort. CDASH stood at such a crossing in 2017 and, luckily, made a right choice. Dr. Evans rebooted the CDASH project with colleagues including Dr. Roger Malina and myself, established a new website with more advanced functional supports, and launched a new CDASH site in March 2018. At present, there are over 200 courses at the CDASH site submitted from instructors in many countries including U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K. Germany, Brazil, Turkey, and Korea. CDASH also has a weekly updated resource page that contains information of research articles, news, multimedia, and social media. There are also 14 collaborators who work with the CDASH project team to nourish CDASH.
<h2><strong>At the Bend</strong></h2>
When we approach the bend in the road, we become alert and cautious because we cannot see beyond the bend. Sometimes, we encounter unexpected wonderful scenery beyond the bend and cannot help but say “Wow.” There are a few “Wow at the bend” moments during the CDASH project when an unexpected contributor submits a course. CDASH aims to be a global website and promotes geographical diversity as well as diversity in language. Every time a course from a faraway place or a course from non-English speaking area is submitted, the “Wow at the bend” moment occurs. One of the memorable occasions is a contribution from KOFAC, an educational institution in South Korea. This is the first course submission from Asia at the new CDASH website. Moreover, KOFAC has a similar interest in cross-disciplinary curriculum development in arts, science, and humanities, as CDASH does. KOFAC has its own archive of primary and secondary course materials and willing to share them with the world. It is a thrilling discovery for the CDASH team that CDASH is not alone on this road. There may be many KOFAC-like institutions, groups, and individuals in the world, waiting to make a connection. It may take forever to achieve our goal and there may be many other bumps and crossings in this road. It doesn’t matter. With the possibility of discovering hidden travel companions, however, our journey becomes more and more exciting. After all, “roads are made for journeys not destinations<sup>2</sup>.”
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 	<li>Quote by Confucius</li>
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<h2>첫 걸음을 떼다</h2>
“천리 길도 한 걸음부터”라는 속담이 있다. 어떤 일이건 시작이 중요하다는 뜻으로 시작은 작고 보잘것없게 보일지라도 그 끝은 장대할 수 있다는 의미이다. 2012년 텍사스 주립대학교의 캐서린 에반스 박사가 시작한 일도 그런 작은 첫 걸음이었다. 에반스 박사는 CDASH (Curriculum Development in Arts, Sciences, and Humanities)<sup>1</sup>라는 융합교육자료 웹사이트를 만들었는데, 과학과 인문학, 예술을 넘나드는 융합적 수업자료를 수업개발자나 강의를 진행한 교수 또는 교사들이 직접 올릴 수 있게 한 사이트였다.  CDASH 사이트는 융합교육 자료실 및 융합교육 현황의 데이터 베이스 역할을 하도록 구성되었으며,  당연히 이 사이트의 성패는 얼마나 많은 사람들이 관심을 가지고 참여하는가에 달려있었다. 에반스 박사 본인조차 융합 교육에 관심을 가진 사람들이 있을지, 그런 사람들 중 이 사이트에 참여해 줄 사람이 있을지 자신이 없었다고 할 만큼 시작은 불투명했다. 그러나 그런 불안함은 미국 전역에서100 여개에 이르는 수업자료가 사이트에 올라옴으로써 눈 녹은 듯 사라질 수 있었다.  과학, 인문학, 예술을 아우르는 융합 교육에 생각보다 많은 사람들이 관심을 가지고 여러 가지 시도를 하고 있었고, 다행스럽게도 많은 사람들이 아이디어와 자료를 공유하기를 원하고 있었다. CDASH프로젝트는 그렇게 작은 첫 걸음을 떼었다.
<h2><strong>길 위에서 하는 선택</strong></h2>
천리 길까지는 아니더라도 여행을 하다 보면 항상 곧게 뻗은 고속도로만을 달리게 되지는 않는다. 오르막도 있고 내리막도 있으며, 교차로도 있고, 길이 굽어지는 곳도 있기 마련이다. CDASH프로젝트가 성공적인 첫 발을 내딛은 이후로 항상 곧게 뻗은 길을 거침없이 달려온 것은 아니다. 어느 사이트라도 피할 수 없는 침체기가 CDASH사이트에도 왔고, 참여자도 방문자도 서서히 줄어든 상태에서 사이트는 잊혀져 가고 있었다. 침체기를 맞은 웹사이트, 홈페이지, 블로그들은 그대로 버려지거나 잊혀지는 경우가 적지 않다. 반대로 침체기를 벗어나 새로운 도약을 하는 경우도 있다. 어떤 결말을 맺느냐 하는 것은 아마도  타이밍과 선택의 문제일 것이다. 적절한 타이밍에 적절한 선택을 하는 것, 그것이 침체기에서 벗어나느냐 아니면 그대로 잊혀지느냐를 결정하게 된다. 2017년 CDASH사이트는 그런 기로에 서 있었다. 잠시 다시 여행을 생각해보면, 길을 가다가 교차로를 만났을 때, 어느 쪽으로 가느냐에 따라 쉽게 목적지에 이르기도 하고 반대로 잘못된 길로 들어서면 시간과 노력을 그야말로 ‘아낌없이<em>’</em> 낭비하기도 한다. 실제 길찾기에서는 스마트폰 앱이나 네비게이션이 도와주지만, 인생의 길찾기에서는 아쉽게도 그런 것들을 기대할 수 없다.  에반스 박사는 기로에 선 CDASH 사이트를 되살리기 위해 동료들과 학교에 지원을 청했고, 때맞추어 필요한 기술적, 재정적 도움을 받을 수 있었다. CDASH사이트를 위한 적절한 타이밍에 적절한 선택이 이루어진 셈이다. 새롭게 결성된 CDASH 프로젝트 팀은 2018년 3월 한층 업그레이드된 새로운 CDASH 사이트를 선보였다. 현재 CDASH 사이트에는 미국, 캐나다, 호주, 영국, 독일, 터키, 브라질, 한국을 포함한 여러 나라의 교육자들이 제공한 200여개의 수업 자료가 구축되어 있고, 매 주 업데이트되는 참고 자료 페이지에는 관련 논문을 비롯한 멀티미디어, 뉴스, 소셜 미디어 자료들이 제공되고 있다.
<h2>먼 길을 함께 가며</h2>
CDASH 프로젝트 팀은 갈 길이 아주 멀다는 것을 잘 알고 있다. CDASH 사이트의 목표는 과학, 인문학, 예술을 아우르는 융합교육의 글로벌 자료실인 동시에 수업개발을 위한 플랫폼의 역할을 하는 것이다. 아직은 영어권 자료가 중심이 되고 있으나, 차차 다른 언어권으로도 영역을 넓혀갈 계획이다. 따라서 새로운 지역이나 다른 언어권에서 CDASH 사이트에 참여할 때 마다 기대감이 상승하는 것은 당연한 일이다. 마치 낯선 곳을 가다가 이 길 모퉁이를 돌면 무엇이 있을까 기대하게 되는 것과 비슷하다. 그런 의미에서 CDASH프로젝트 팀에게 잊을 수 없는 순간을 꼽으라면, 한국과학창의재단(KOFAC)에서 수업자료를 업로드한 때를 꼽을 수 있다. 한국과학창의재단은 다년간의 융합교육 경험과 자료를 보유하고 있는 기관으로, 수많은 초등 및 중등 교육자료를 개발해오고 있는 것으로 알려졌다. 지구의 다른 한 편에서 누군가가 우리와 비슷한 생각과 목표를 가지고 활동하고 있다는 것은 혼자라고 여겼던 여행지에서 생각지도 못한 길동무를 만나게 된 것과 같았고 CDASH 프로젝트 팀에게 혼자가 아니라는 든든함과 우리가 아직 만나지 못한 다른 동료들이 여기 저기 많이 숨어있을 거라는 기대감을 심어주었다. 아마도 현재 CDASH는 천리 길의 여행에서 겨우 열 걸음쯤 왔는지도 모른다. 그럼에도 불구하고 융합교육에 관심있는 잠재적 길동무들이 존재한다는 사실은 이 긴 여행을 보다 즐겁게 만들어 줄 것이 틀림없다. “멈추지 않는 이상 얼마나 천천히 가는지는 문제되지 않는다<sup>2</sup>.”
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 	<li><a href="http://cdash.atec.io">http://cdash.atec.io</a></li>
 	<li>공자의 명언 중에서</li>
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A New Journey of CDASH (Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities)

We are pleased to inform you - as collaborators and cloud curriculum members - of the progress of our CDASH website! On the Home page, our "SPOTLIGHT: What's New!" section introduces The University of Texas at Dallas' umbrella project, ToTTS: Tale of Two Thinking Systems. The umbrella consists of six promising initiatives within the ArtSciLab that will be presented in Washington, D.C. at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-national-convening-on-the-integration-the-arts-humanities-and-stemm-in-higher-ed-tickets-53159362083?utm_source=BHEW+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=7e483f02b9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_02_07_58_COPY_05&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_937c723a84-7e483f02b9-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Convention in April 2019</a>.

In the Spring of 2018, Dr. Kathryn Evans conducted a study, Moving the Needle, measuring the change in her Music, Science and Technology students' attitudes on science-music integration. This investigation and its findings will also be presented by Dr. Evans at the NASEM Convention. The demo session will be recorded and will be included in the NASEM online toolkit as a resource for practitioners interested in implementing integrative approaches in their teaching.

We welcome our newest Research Assistant in UTD's ArtSciLab, <a href="https://cdash.atec.io/team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren Bernal</a>. Lauren is a senior Psychology major who brings a background of research and behavioral and brain sciences perspective to our interest in transdisciplinary curriculum.

Our Brazilian collaborator, Joao Silveira at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, recently completed his ArtSci for Education: Activity Report, February 2019. Soon, the original Portuguese report along with the English translated version will be posted on the CDASH site. We are delighted to share his findings over transdisciplinary.

Much more to come! We are excited about the response and look forward to many more courses, syllabi and resources for you. Help us spread the word by sending the link <a href="https://cdash.atec.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://cdash.atec.io</a> to your friends in the art-science community.

Kathryn Evans and the CDASH team
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Updates from CDASH

The CDASH (Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities) website was established in 2012 by Kathryn Evans and Roger Malina as both a resource for faculty who engaged in or were interested in engaging in art-science-humanities curriculum; and as a data collection point where these types of curriculum could be surveyed for innovation and sustainability. Our new site will include graduate, undergraduate, primary/secondary and informal curriculum.

Our new website allows you to easily enter your course and all the relevant details. Please log in or register before you submit your course. You may also access the other areas of the site. Those who submit syllabi will be admitted to the Cloud Curriculum, where you can download other syllabi and resources.

For more information, contact <a href="mailto:cdash@utdallas.edu">cdash@utdallas.edu</a>.

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Curriculum Development in the Arts, Science, and Humanities

UX Researcher

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Experimental Publishing and Curation Assistant

Managing Editor

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<h1 style="text-align: center">Arteca</h1>
ARTECA is a digital space that supports scholarly materials that explore the intersection of arts, humanities, science, and technology. The portal serves as a virtual art-science community resource and critical content provider for scholarly and experimental publications, including gray literature.

The project is a collaboration of The MIT Press, Leonardo/ISAST, and the ArtSciLab at UT Dallas.

ARTECA acts as a valuable hub for academic librarians and researchers, and aids in raising the art, humanities, science, and technology community’s visibility when other monodisciplines have already established such services.

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Deputy Co-Director of Transdisciplinary Strategy & Innovation

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Project HERMES looks at how researchers and expert practitioners work together in interdisciplinary (across institutional departments) and transdisciplinary (across stakeholder communities) contexts through the framework of Transdisciplinary Intelligence. The framework includes knowledge and aptitude metrics, good practices, and transdisciplinary training modules to improve collaboration among artists, designers, engineers, scientists, and other experts in order to boost innovation through tool sharing and idea exchange. Project HERMES is currently underway internally at the University of Texas at Dallas among its 100+ research groups and will expand to industry partners in 2020. 

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A collection of multidisciplinary exemplars of science, engineering, art, design, and humanities.

The SEAD Exemplars exhibit will comprises a collection of exemplar works demonstrating effective intersections among the sciences and engineering with art, design, and the humanities. The works represent international diversity as well as diversity of practices and disciplines. The sections of the exhibit reflect the different purposes and impact of the exemplars:
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 	<li>Pioneering: Individuals and groups whose careers have transcended disciplines and paradigms.</li>
 	<li>Exploring: Projects that have pushed the boundaries of both arts and sciences.</li>
 	<li>Bridging: Projects that seamlessly connect and merge the arts and the sciences.</li>
 	<li>Engaging: Projects that seek to express and communicate to the public at large.</li>
 	<li>Questioning: Projects that ponder about the implications of arts and sciences themselves.</li>
 	<li>Educating: Projects meant to both teach and encourage learning.</li>
 	<li>Innovating: Projects that led to discoveries and inventions.</li>
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Call for Involvement

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Project Manager

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Machine Learning Researcher and AI/ML Lead

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The aim of the project is to build a virtual assistant exclusively for the Artscilab which performs the following tasks:
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 	<li>Create an interactive platform with the user.</li>
 	<li>To enlighten the user with project description of the current projects in the lab.</li>
 	<li>Profile description of an individual working with the corresponding project.</li>
 	<li>Provide data narration based on the respective dataset.</li>
 	<li>Assist students in picking the right course in the opted track of different ATEC courses.</li>
 	<li>Organize and update the progress of the projects.</li>
 	<li>Communication of the data analysis.</li>
 	<li>Collection of a variety of questions about the emerging projects.</li>
 	<li>Building an agent that not only is aware of the recent developments of the projects but can also provide the best assistance in understanding them.</li>
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A virtual interactive lab assistant for the ArtSciLab.

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Technology and Culture Consultant

Cris holds a BSc. In Biological Anthropology and is currently a second-year master’s student in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience. He is interested in analyzing socio-cognitive aspects for the development of technology— most particularly the convergence between AI and culture. He is exploring this connection further in projects involved with Human-Computer Interaction, Brain-Computer Interfaces and Social Robotics. Other interests include interactive lighting and neurotechnology such as Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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<h2>Culture and AI</h2>
<h3>A vital component for the development of technology</h3>
By <a href="https://artscilab.atec.io/people/cris-kubli">Cris Kubli</a>

Since the consolidation of evolutionary theory in the 19th century, many scholars have believed that progress is a linear phenomenon. For it to succeed, one must be as rational as possible, make improvements every time and follow a rigorous set of rules that are known as the scientific method. During this time, certain disciplines such as the biological and physical sciences have been glorified as essential tools for human advancement— all while leaving the arts, humanities and social sciences behind and deeming them less important for human growth.

However, we are reaching a point where the traditional areas that were clearly delineated are blurring, and the once subordinated masteries that focused on the human experience are becoming essential. My background in biological anthropology has catalyzed not only a series of thoughts of possible solutions, but most importantly, a plethora of questions for the human context that lies ahead. For the past few years, we have seen a complete shift in the status quo in all continents when it comes to international affairs, the environment and human social life just to name a few. It was only 30 years ago that the Berlin wall fell, an event that officially ended the Cold War, and it has just been 12 years since the first iPhone came out, introducing a powerful computer into people’s pockets. It is believed that during the course of this century, we will colonize mars, our brains will merge with computers and we will bring extinct species back to life. Will these shifts rewrite what it means to be human? How will we cope with an increasingly globalized society without provocating tensions? Is bearing children selfish and bad for the environment? I would like to believe that individuals that closely monitor our social species such as myself, have valuable input for the advancement of the human condition. In short, social sciences and the humanities are vital not only for the development of technology, but also for the complex problems that we will soon face.

Anthropology is a multifaceted discipline that is naturally human-centric. Nevertheless, it does emphasize the relationships people make with their surroundings, such as other living entities, inert materials and abstract thought. At the forefront of its analysis is the concept of culture, a component that shapes every person on the planet. As indispensable the cultural factor might be, many people are not aware of its importance in interacting with others. For those that do not work in large international corporations or live in a cosmopolitan atmosphere, most people intermingle with a social group that is quite similar to theirs. The social sphere of the average person consists of folks that share a similar socio-economic background, are of the same race and even hold parallel religious and political beliefs. These social bubbles are bursting, especially since the adoption of the internet and the sharp decrease of airline fares. Individuals have begun working with people from outside their states, made friends in different countries and are dating people that come from other continents. Even though some argue that social media has only reinforced our biases, it is true that more people now have access to other points of view than ever before. Coming to contact with ideas that are foreign to the quotidian social bubble can magnify new possibilities and engender innovation. In other words, the inclusion of culturally diverse groups into any discussion can be extremely fruitful.

Some experts maintain that in the future, countries will not be as autonomous as they are now, and we will have a global confederation where all individuals hold the same rights and responsibilities. This sort of social cohesiveness can be seen in the European Union, where in theory all of its citizens maintain the same status and are able to travel and work to any other member of the union. While the idea of a global pan-culture is not new— such as the invention of Esperanto, an artificial language that aimed to unify humankind as a lingua franca, we must still remain vigilant towards this mindset. For the sake of unity, the idea could help people understand each other better and avoid conflict that derives from miscommunication.

As previously mentioned, diversity must persist for innovation and creativity to flourish. Perhaps in the next decades we can all strive to be bicultural while maintaining our mother tongue and speaking the same adopted global language. Yet, I cannot stress enough how crucial it is to keep other points of view alive and ward off homogeneity. To date, there are various cases where languages are facing extinction, mainly due to the dominance of another more powerful culture. Countries like Iceland are fearing a “digital extinction” of their language, mainly because large corporations do not offer devices that can understand their tongue and thus have to interact with technology in English. This identical panorama can be extended to other thousands of cultures that are under threat around the globe, especially in less developed countries.

Very similar to history, which is remembered from the victor’s perspective, digital life will be led by those who control technology. Thus far, digital strongholds like China, the United States and a handful of other countries will survive this revolution, as other cultures are expected to perish in only a few decades. If we are able to understand this upcoming social dynamic, we will need to make technology more inclusive, accessible and diverse. Human values need to be included in the equation.

One way to solve this problem is to include the representation of traditionally segregated groups in platforms like videogames, though we also need to understand the user and their interactions with other humans, machines and the general surrounding. One way of tackling this challenge is to understand a person’s language, idioms, accent, gestures, preferences and overall patterns of thought, all of which are heavily influenced by the culture they come from. These factors can also be traced and analyzed with technology.

Having this concern, I am on a quest to developing culturally-sensitive artificial intelligence that can read and comprehend cultural particularities of a social group. In the future, we may be able to suggest dishes that may be of interest to specific groups that enjoy eating spicy like Mexicans or Indians, or perhaps recommend a movie with a plot that meets the viewer’s cultural expectations. For instance, happy endings with a triumphant hero are common in the United States, but other countries appreciate a darker, more somber ending. Aside from recommending material that already exists, we could also create new things or experiences that best fit a particular taste and produce a blockbuster movie in Nepal. Nonetheless, both suggestions and the creation of new material that are tailored to cultural preferences could be a double-edged sword as it can enclose people even deeper into a bubble of preconceptions.

Meanwhile, introducing novel and different media to people is possible. Spotify, the music streaming company is known for suggesting music that is closely related to a user’s musical taste. Very recently, they released tastebreakers, a specially curated playlist with songs that differ from the usual rhythm and genre that a person typically listens to. This has served as a gentle introduction to new music for many people. This notion can be extended to literature, news feeds, clothing and even cocktails.

For the time being, what I do know is that it is essential to collaborate with digitally-oppressed groups so that different cultures can enter victoriously to the current digital landscape and make their own voices heard and valued.

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