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Joao Silveira

Director

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.

Roger Malina

<p>February 2020, the University of Texas at Dallas&nbsp;ArtSciLab&nbsp;appoints Jacob Hunwick as Lab Ambassador for the duration of his study abroad program in Germany. He starts at Phillips University Marburg on February the 18th and finishes on June the 12th. In addition, lab director Roger Malina appoints Jacob as an intern representative for the Leonardo Journal in Europe.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Jacob will work to research, discover and document exemplars of art-science and well-being. Through his studies in ATEC at UT Dallas, Jacob has found a passion for technologies that prioritize the preservation and promotion of healthy habits and lifestyles.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Through his weekly blog posts, he will report on interviews, events, and interactions with new organizations and people related to technologies that prioritize human health.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The following is a summary of his research interests that he will pursue and write about in his weekly blog.</p>



<h2>Research Goal for Lab Ambassador Position</h2>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-style-default"><p>Ideally, interaction designers want interfaces designed for everyday use to develop into healthy habits. Unfortunately, screen-based interfaces and modern city infrastructure trends promote sedentary habits.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Infinitely scrolling pages and endless content tunnels enable users to over-dose on screen-time. Common use of screens for education, entertainment, and leisure time encourage people to abandon physical activity. And lastly, American city infrastructures discourage walking with a hyper focus on the automobile.&nbsp;</p><p>Through my research, I seek interfaces with modern technology that improve human well-being. I seek infrastructure that empowers us to&nbsp;rely on our legs, not motors, to travel and navigate urban environments. I seek products that involve motion and break through the 2-dimensional touch screen barrier. I seek educational tools that encourage children to learn through active motion and participation rather than passive consumption.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Trough the theories of embodied cognition, designers know that external objects can influence our cognitive processes. Now, the field of interaction design has realized the power that designed objects and experiences has over how we understand the world.&nbsp;While abroad, I will search for and document exemplars of health-conscious technologies that use the theories of embodied cognition to build healthy habits.&nbsp;</p><p>To those interested in my research goal contact me via email at&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="mailto:jmh170830@utdallas.edu" target="_blank">jmh170830@utdallas.edu</a>. I look forward to traveling all around Europe in pursuit of my mission.&nbsp;</p><p>-Jacob Hunwick&nbsp;</p></blockquote>



<p>ArtSci Abroad logo created by Jacob Hunwick.</p>

UTD ARTSCILAB Lab Ambassador Appointed to enable ArtSci connections Abroad

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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>.

CDASH

Experimental Publishing and Curation

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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Machine Learning Researcher and AI/ML Lead

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

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The aim of the project is to build a virtual assistant exclusively for the Artscilab which performs the following tasks:
<ol>
 	<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>
</ol>

Besso

Project Manager

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

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Alumnus

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.

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UX Researcher

Kristen Deupree

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<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

Semra Zamurad

Deputy Co-Director of Transdisciplinary Strategy & Innovation

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

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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.

ARTECA

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. 

HERMES

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:
<ul>
 	<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>
</ul>

SEAD Exemplars

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Gray Paper

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.

Maisha Razzaque

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<p>Produced and created by Maisha Razzaque, a new series has launched on <em>The</em> <em>Bold Roast: Student Conversations</em> channel on Creative Disturbance.</p>



<p>The ArtSciLab is home to collaborations between artists and scientists who investigate topics such as experimental publishing, data sonification, data visualization, and the hybridization of art and science. This series is an audio experience that allows the spotlight to fall on its members as they talk to us about their careers, contributions, and passions.</p>



<p><a href="https://creativedisturbance.org/podcast/pilot-ft-lauren-bernhal/">Click here to listen to the first episode of </a><em><a href="https://creativedisturbance.org/podcast/pilot-ft-lauren-bernhal/">The ArtSciLab Talk Show. </a></em></p>



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ArtSciLab Talkshow: A new series on The Bold Roast

<p>by Semra Zamurad</p>



<p>As an avid gamer myself, I was drawn to the Esports
Cyberathlete Development (ECD) co-design group’s mission: to gain a better
understanding of how gaming supports positive social and cognitive growth in
cyberathletes. My educational background is rooted in psychology and I am
interested in how technology can be used to benefit psychological background
and research. To learn more about this, I am lending my expertise in studying
human behavior from a biopsychosocial standpoint to the efforts of the ECD
team.</p>



<p>As we move forward on our academic journey, we have
discovered the necessity of operationally defining the behaviors we seek to
understand and making sure that those definitions remain consistent across
raters. To operationally define a behavior essentially means to define a
behavior in a specific, concrete, and measurable way. This is especially
important when more than one researcher will be taking part in an observation.
For example, if we were looking for signs of exhaustion, one observer may
consider rubbing eyes to be a sign of exhaustion while another observer does
not. High levels of inter-rater reliability (referring to how similar the data
collection is between the observers) are imperative to the success of study
that has key qualitative components. As such, I was tasked with looking into
places that the ECD co-design group could practice observing gamers in their
natural environment, as well as compiling a list of non-academic resources
members could use to supplement their general knowledge of gaming culture.</p>



<p>The following list refers to several locations within the DFW complex that offer gamers and those interested in learning more about Esports a site to gather at and to take part in the experience there.</p>



<ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ggezgamingcafe">EZ Gaming Café </a><ul><li>Vibe: minimalistic; snacks and drinks offered from deep freezer, metal shelves<ul><li>Hosts local tournaments</li></ul><ul><li>Offers PC gaming and consoles (Nintendo Switch, PS4)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



<ul><li><a href="http://nerdvanafrisco.com/">Nerdvana</a><ul><li>Vibe: “Games with your coffee” kind of place; café/bar first, with games you can play while eating/drinking<ul><li>Café and board games</li></ul><ul><li>Bar and videogames</li></ul><ul><li>Free to play with minimum $10/person purchase</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



<ul><li><a href="https://geekletes.gg/">Geekletes</a> <ul><li>Vibe: grassroots Esports competitions that serves as a training ground for aspiring gamers<ul><li>Host local tournaments</li></ul><ul><li>Provide courses on how to navigate and excel in the industry</li></ul><ul><li>Recruiting and exposure</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



<ul><li><a href="http://javagamingcafe.com/">Java Gaming Café</a> <ul><li>Vibe: minimalistic but luxurious<ul><li>Serves drinks to players at their PCs</li><li>Two floors</li><li>Hosts local tournaments</li><li>Offers PC gaming and consoles (PS4, Wii U, Xbox One)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



<ul><li><a href="https://playlivenation.com/">PLAYlive Nation at Stonebriar Centre</a><ul><li>Vibe: social gaming
lounge housed in Frisco, powered by Simplicity Esports (merged); high-tech
aesthetic (blue neon lights, generally dark, leather seating)<ul><li>Specializes in Xbox One and popular table games (e.g., Magic the
Gathering)</li></ul><ul><li>Offers VR gaming</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



<ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AK.PCCAFE/">AK PC Gaming Café</a><ul><li>Vibe: similar look to an
office building; identifies as an Internet café<ul><li>PC gaming, web browsing, workstation</li></ul><ul><li>Offers food and drinks (snacks, soft drinks, coffee, fries)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



<ul><li><a href="https://esportsstadium.gg/gaming-center/">Esports Stadium Arlington Gaming Center</a><ul><li>Vibe: largest dedicated
Esports facility in North America<ul><li>Offers PC gaming and consoles (PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One)<ul><li>Must bring your own controllers and headsets, or rent some from
them</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>Hosts local tournaments</li></ul><ul><li>Offers food, drinks, and merchandise</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>



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<p>However, simply being aware of the existence of these places may prove to be insufficient in supplementing our comprehension of gaming culture even if we were to visit. In order to effectively supplement our collective knowledge on Esports and gaming in general, I also put together a list of non-academic resources that are easily accessible and may explain cultural concepts in a simpler fashion. This list includes apps, attractions, and movies to gain a better understanding of Esports’ evolution.</p>



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<ul><li><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/no-scope/list?title_no=1572">WEBTOON: No Scope by ZOYANG</a><ul><li>A webcomic about a fictional Esports game called PSI BOND and high school players attempting to become pro players</li></ul><ul><li>Gives insight into player housing, recruiting, team building, basic aspects of Esports, women in Esports, Esports in Korea</li></ul></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/letsplay/list?title_no=1218">WEBTOON: Let’s Play by Mongie</a><ul><li>A webcomic about a game developer whose game is given a bad review by an Internet celebrity (“lets-player”).</li></ul><ul><li>Gives insight into different types of games and gamers, impact of a gaming-centered career on mental and physical health, skills necessary to excel in a gaming-centered career (mainly game development)</li></ul></li></ul>



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<ul><li><a href="http://www.nvmusa.org/">National Videogame Museum</a><ul><li>Provides history of gaming and the industry as well as interactive
exhibits</li></ul></li></ul>



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<ul><li>BBC documentary: The Supergamers/Rise of the Supergamer<ul><li>Looks into the lives of select teams and players as they train, live together, and learn to play together, striving for the common goal of making it big as a cyberathlete</li></ul></li></ul>



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<ul><li>Netflix documentary: League of Legends Origins<ul><li>Details the rise of the popular MMOBA game League of Legends, its start as a free demo to an Esport game</li></ul></li></ul>



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<p>If you or someone you know enjoys
visiting any of the aforementioned gaming points or is aware of more
non-academic resources that can help explain gaming culture, please feel free
to contact the Esports Co-Design Group Project Manager, Lauren Bernal, at
Lauren.Bernal@UTDallas.edu.</p>

Local Esports Gaming Hubs!

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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.

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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.

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<p>The ArtSciLab has named
 Dr. Kathryn Evans, Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of 
Arts &amp; Humanities of UT Dallas, as Co-Director of Education 
Initiatives, while also promoting Dr. Yvan Tina and Alex Garcia Topete, two of its longest serving ATEC researchers, to the positions of Deputy Co-Directors of the lab. The leadership promotions come as part of a major re-design of the systems and processes of the ArtSciLab
 as it adapts to the challenges of managing research, strategy, 
organizational culture, and operations among a growing group of student 
lab members and external collaborators.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Dr.
 Evans, as Co-Director of Education Initiatives of the lab, will oversee
 the ArtSciLab’s projects that merge diverse disciplines in learning and
 teaching settings, particularly those involving the growing trend of 
turning education from “STEM” to “STEAM” education through the arts. Dr.
 Evans brings to the position not only her years of experience as an 
educator, but also her many talents as an academic researcher, singer, conductor, director, and producer. The ArtSciLab’s current education initiatives include CDASH (Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities), ToTTS (Tale of Two Thinking Systems), and Arts-Based Learning for Business (ABLB)--all which were originated by Dr. Evans as a lab researcher.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Dr. Tina will now serve as Deputy Co-Director of Performative Research of the lab. Dr.
 Tina's expertise is in performance studies and he will oversee the 
research projects related to new forms of representation and curation of
 the arts, with an emphasis on scenic practices involving artificial 
intelligence and biotechnologies. His role will be to stimulate and 
strengthen the artistic output of the ArtSciLab. As a performative researcher, he is a founding member and manager of the multilingual and international podcast platform Creative Disturbance,
 which requires the coordination of a team composed of UX/UI designers, 
sound designers, and web developers.&nbsp; Dr. Tina is also a member of the Laboratoire d'Études en Sciences des Arts (LESA) of Aix-Marseille University and the artistic director of the Virtual Africa initiative of Leonardo/Olats. He lectures in a number of different venues and conferences and will participate this year to the Next Einstein Forum.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Mr.
 Garcia Topete will function as Deputy Co-Director of Transdisciplinary 
Strategy and Collaboration. His main duties will include overseeing the Experimental Publishing and Curation (ExPuCu)
 efforts of the lab, implementing systems and workflows with the aim of 
fostering creativity, innovation, and collaboration, and designing 
transdisciplinary strategies for teamwork and successful knowledge 
management. His almost two decades of experience in the creative 
industries as an international filmmaker and film festival organizer, as
 well as more than a decade in the entrepreneurial and non-profit world,
 make Mr. Garcia Topete particularly equipped with a multifaceted 
understanding and transnational perspective of knowledge exchange and 
social impact to deal with the current and future challenges of the ArtSciLab.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>“As
 the African proverb says: if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want
 to go far, go together; and we’re definitely trying to go far in our 
lab,” said Founding Executive Co-Director Dr. Roger Malina about the reasoning for the lab reorganization. With these new leadership positions and overall redesign, the ArtSciLab
 seeks to improve not only its operations and management, but also 
provide a better learning environment and culture in which its members 
and collaborators share knowledge more effectively, mentor each other in
 their areas of expertise with more ease, and develop further both 
professionally and personally through their lab participation. 
Ultimately, the ArtSciLab continues to pioneer in transdisciplinary issues—this time looking to boost the careers and development of everyone involved.&nbsp;</p>

ArtSciLab Promotes Three Researchers to Leadership Positions

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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.

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.

Chaz Lilly

<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

<p>Dr. James L. Carter, geoscientist, and  associate professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Dallas, passed away on September 21, 2019, in his home at the age of 82. To honor James Carter, ArtSciLab member Ayen Deng has written and performed a spoken word poem in memory of the way he inspired all those who attended his last lecture on September 20, 2019. The slides in this video are from his lecture to accompany the performance. </p>



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A Spoken Word on Life and Death

<p>by Michael Warner</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><em>Virtual Menageries</em> puts us back in time amongst the collective elites. Berland forms a cohesive genealogy of the “menagerie” to encourage, challenge, and deconstruct our modern perception of non-human animals and their relationship to human meaning and existence. <em>Virtual Menageries</em> looks through the lens of mediation to draw affective and emotional weight to animals as symbolic messengers in the digital era. From the giraffe, to the beaver, virtual art, digital communications, cats, birds and music Berland maps out how animals have become not only the mediators that bridge worlds together for good, but also as the trafficked subjects of terror: tools made to control, methods for silencing, opportunities to proliferate a message, and catalysts in profiteering.<br> &nbsp;<br> The book begins with a question that led to a series of other questions: “Why are there so many cats on the internet?” (Pg. 1) Which then led to thoughts about the roles of animals as symbols and figures in contexts. “How do animals help manage our perception of the Anthropocene? How do they disrupt our own relationship with digital technologies if they are so abundantly apart of them? If they are mediating in new ways, what content are they mediating, and in what context?” (Pg. 1) These are all questions that threw the book and Berland’s project into fruition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  </p></blockquote>



<p>To read the full review: </p>



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A Review of Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures

Culture and AI

Experimental Publishing

Jacob is an undergraduate student at the school of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communications at UT Dallas with a focus on product + graphic design and emerging technology.

Jacobs interest in product design flourished in high school when he founded a longboard company with his twin brother. The twin pair designed and built custom longboards out of their garage for over 3 years. Over these years Jacob designed everything from the production pipeline to the website.

Currently, Jacob works for the lab as the international ambassador in Europe. In pursuit of his research goal Jacob travels Europe to meet with collaborators, attend events, and create new connections. He is the first official lab ambassador and hopes to pave the way for future international work with his program "ArtSci Abroad".

Jacob Hunwick

Ritwik Kaikini is a sound designer, musician and artist studying Arts and Technology at University of Texas at Dallas. After graduating with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering in India , he completed the Film Appreciation Course at FTII (Film and Television Institute of India). While working in radio advertising at Shankh Studios, Mumbai, India (Lingo India Pvt Ltd), his interests eventually coalesced into the multidisciplinary world of cinema, arts and sciences. He is presently involved in music, sound design, film, art-science, phenomenology and philosophy of sound. Presently, he works as an Art-Science Communicator for ArtSciLab and a Producer for Creative Disturbance, a multi-lingual podcast initiative for the arts and sciences hosted by the ArtSciLab at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is also an active proponent of sound art practice at LabSynthE, under the direction of Dr. Frank Dufour and Xtine Burrough. LabSynthE is a laboratory of experimental attention combining new media, sound art and poetry.

Ritwik Kaikini

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.

Al Madireddy

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

My work focuses on designing and developing platforms for experimental publishing.

Joel Ewing

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

Yusra Khan

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.

Veronica Liu

A collection of multidisciplinary exemplars of science, engineering, art, design, and humanities.

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>.”
<ol>
 	<li><a href="https://cdash.atec.io/about/">https://cdash.atec.io/about/</a></li>
 	<li>Quote by Confucius</li>
</ol>
<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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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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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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<h2>Listening to Bioluminescent Bacteria</h2>
<h6>by Ritwik Kaikini</h6>
Ritwik Kaikini (MA’ 18) and Brian Merlo (BE’ 19) presented one of the iterations of the project, which is now leading its research pathway into diagnosing a bacteria’s life cycle phase just by listening, instead of seeing. During the presentation, Ritwik explained that Woody Hastings—who was one of the founding fathers of the field of circadian biology—during his experiments with bacteria <em>Aliivibrio Fischeri</em> and <em>Vibrio Harveyi, </em>concluded that these bioluminescent bacteria “made light only when they had high cell density, they made no light when there was low cell density.” Pursuing research to determine why this happens, Dr. Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist, discovered that the time of light generation and the phenomenon of bioluminescence is closely related to genes. She explained the concept of <em>quorum sensing</em>, where each bacterium votes based on their nutrient availability and depending on the votes, these bacteria decide to manifest genes into certain forms of behaviors like bioluminescence, virulence or bio-film formation.
(Listen to Dr. Bassler’s talk on quorum sensing here: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=saWSxLU0ME8">youtube.com/watch?v=saWSxLU0ME8</a>)

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<h6>Students in the ArtSciLab presented Micro Lux Chants, a collaborative project from the lab, at the 2018 Research Art and Writing (RAW) conference held by the Department of Arts and Humanities. The panel was chaired by Dr. Sabrina Starnaman, a clinical assistant professor teaching history, philosophy and literature at the department of Arts and Humanities.</h6>
<h3>Ideation</h3>
Brian explained that Dr. Jeremiah Gassensmith had approached the ArtSciLab, initially in the interest of understanding what phase of the life cycle, the bioluminescent bacteria (<em>Aliivibrio Fischeri</em>) is in, by listening instead of visualizing the growth. Every bacterial cycle has four phases, namely: lag, log, stationary and death phase. The goal of the second phase of the project was to ‘sonify’ the rate of change of the population growth of bacteria. Sonification is the process of translating any data change into sound outputs for the user to be able to understand and absorb information just by listening.
<h3>Auditory perception in everyday life</h3>
Humans use auditory perception in everyday life.
Brian went on to explain one such example:<em> “Imagine</em><em> yourself searching for water inside a dense forest during a hike. When we try to navigate or search for running water, we listen for the sound of water. This sound is built so strongly in our memory, that we know it is the sound of running water somewhere in the distance. As we walk closer to the river, the sound begins to change and evolve in terms of its frequency, amplitude or pitch”. </em>We are able to locate the source of water using just our ears. Similarly, we can study or identify stages in a phenomenon having data changes using our ears.
<h3>Data Capture and Patch construction</h3>
The team conducted iterations of time lapse photography of the bioluminescent bacterial growth from August to December 2017. The bacteria were observed over a life cycle period of 5-6 days, and images were captured every 5 minutes. These images were compressed to form time-lapse videos which were roughly 1-minute long.
In January 2018, the team wrote a patch (a block of visual code) to demonstrate the concept of ‘listening to a rate of change’. The visual time lapse video footage of the bacteria is fed into this patch, which converts it into a binary footage (only black and white). The blue bioluminescent spots are converted to black spots on a white canvas. This helps us determine the number of blobs of bacterial colonies and their degree of growth over a period of 5-6 days.

[caption id="attachment_2758" align="aligncenter" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-2758 size-medium" src="https://artscilab.atec.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/07/Ritwik1-300x168.png" alt="" width="300" height="168" /> Figure 1 A block of written code (patch) in MAX/msp[/caption]
<h3>Metaphor of the Maraca</h3>
Brian came up with the idea of using the maraca, a traditional instrument filled with pebbles and used as a shaker or a rattle. Each bacterium can be treated as a pebble inside the maraca and as the bacteria grew in number, so did the intensity of the rattling of these pebbles inside the maraca. Ritwik also explained that we could treat each bacterium as a coffee bean inside an empty coke can and shake the can. Once the bacteria grew in number, then number of coffee beans inside grew and the sound changed.

[caption id="attachment_2759" align="aligncenter" width="186"]<img class="wp-image-2759 size-full" src="https://artscilab.atec.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/07/Ritwik2.png" alt="" width="186" height="186" /> Figure 2 Maraca, a musical instrument (commonly known as shakers)[/caption]
<h3>Q&amp;A</h3>
<strong>Q&amp;A Video Link:</strong>  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLWJLDoj-Rk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLWJLDoj-Rk</a>
The audience listened to this ‘sonification’ and we had a variety of reactions from different people. A biology student asked how this project can lead into cancer research. Ritwik explained that these bacteria are like indicators of health within various regions of the body. Bioluminescent bacteria can indicate whether the regions of our body have been attacked by cancer cells or not, depending on their characteristic of giving out light. If they give out light, the region is healthy, if the light dies out the region is infested with cancer cells. He gave the analogy of the colonies of bacteria being like an army or a civilization that lives managing nutrients for the entire colony. Once the civilization is thriving in a healthy condition with sufficient nutrients, they are able to make light. At this point, Roger Malina and Sabrina Starnaman brought up the point of the anthropocentric nature of explaining concepts in science and how it sometimes makes the concept more familiar to understand, though ethically debatable. Another member of the audience also pointed that the sounds reminded him of the lost musical genre of ‘blip-hop’.

The presentation ended with a holistic discussion of how the field of art-science is evolving and reaching a realm where art informs science through its experimental unorthodox ways and science informs art through its own disciplined methods. In the process of striking the equilibrium between the two fields, there’s a vast array of research areas to be explored and new innovative solutions to be found.

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Ayen Kuol works in the Art Sci Lab as Artist in Residence and coordinator to the Physics department. She holds a bachelor of Science in Physics and Interdisciplinary studies from the Florida International University. Her current interests lie in experimentation of multimodal ways to present scientific knowledge in intimacy to human perception.

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Experimental Publishing and Curation Assistant

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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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This web site is the web companion of the Leonardo e-book Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts (MIT Press, 2014). It aims at documenting and promoting the key works and concepts of the arts of artificial life. Each section has been conceived to provide the reader with a maximum resources about the topics discussed in the book. Feel free to propose new material and email Yvan Tina at yvantina@gmail.com.

With biotechnologies, synthetic biology and Artificial Life, artists have opened new avenues in the artworld, going from still to autonomous objects to living creatures, exploring the thin border between animate and inanimate, confronting the grown, the evolved, the born and the built, raising aesthetic but also social, political and ethical issues. In this ground breaking collection, the editors have commission new original essays by key figures in these fields and collected document the ideas and practice of artists involved in these areas as well as theoreticians and historians.

Chapters include: Between Bio, Silico and Synthetic: Of Life and Arts; Artificial Life and the Arts; Bioart; Bio-Fiction, Design, Architecture; DIY Biology-Biohacking (see below for full Table of Contents). An exo-life may not come from outer space hitting the Earth riding a meteorite but very well from the lab, designed by a scientist — unless it is an artist— weaving biology and computing in a petri dish or a bioreactor as a vessel.

Connecting Arts and Sciences

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A Spoken Word on Life and Death

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Connecting Arts and Sciences

News and Events

Local Esports Gaming Hubs!

Watering Hole on 2/21

Franklin Osuagwu transitions out of role of Lab Coordinator

UTD ARTSCILAB Lab Ambassador Appointed to enable ArtSci connections Abroad

A Spoken Word on Life and Death

A Review of Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures

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