Director

Roger Malina

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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 a transmission artist, engineer and media theorist, whose practice and research interests lie at the intersection of law, technology and society. As a licensed amateur radio broadcaster (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. 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 machine listening interfaces. 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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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.

Research Assistant

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.

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A virtual interactive lab assistant for the ArtSciLab.

Content Creator and Curator

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), my research and practice cover and converge in three main areas under the broader scopes of Art-Science and Experimental Publishing of the ArtScienceLab: transdisciplinary exchange, filmmaking research, and public engagement design.

Alex Garcia Topete

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Research Coordinator

Paulina Antoinette grew up both in Mexico and in the US, and is currently working towards her MS in Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is interested in breaking down cultural barriers and working towards bettering the welfare of society, whilst creating a more inclusive world both socially and economically. During her free time, she is an avid cook, yogi, and rock climber.

P. Antoinette White

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Researching how researchers and expert practitioners work together in inter- and trans-disciplinary contexts in order to tackle complex problems with creative solutions, ranging from the environment, to new ways of learning, to technology and society.

Full Stack Developer

Aahlad “Al” Madireddy is a Full Stack Developer 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 knows 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 an aspiring software engineer, Al is also a photographer and calligrapher in his free time.

Al is currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Visual Arts as a National Merit Scholar from the University of Texas at Dallas, planning on graduating in 2021.

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Dylan Orgeron

Junior Sound Designer

Andrew Oh is a undergraduate student in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at University of Texas at Dallas. Andrew in the Design and Production pathway, focusing in sound production and design. He is currently part of the Creative Disturbance team, seeking to help improve the platform, and explore the podcast medium.

Gyu Tae (Andrew) Oh

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UI/UX Designer

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.

Kuo-Wei Lee

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Yusra Khan

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Researcher

Yvan Tina is a Research Assistant for 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.

Yvan Tina

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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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