Aadhavan Sibi Mathivanan

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.

Creative Disturbance

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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.

Full Stack Developer

Al Madireddy

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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

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 CDASH (Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities) website was established in 2012 by Kathryn Evans and Roger Malina 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. Our new site will include graduate, undergraduate, primary/secondary and informal curriculum.

CDASH

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Content Creator and Curator

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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>
</ul>

SEAD Exemplars

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

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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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.

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Summer Intern

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Coordinator

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Director of Design

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A publication project that collaborated between MIT Press, Leonardo, and the lab to publish and create a digital webspace for books by artists, scientists, researchers and scholars that present innovative discourse on the convergence of art, science and technology. Envisioned as a catalyst for enterprise, research and creative and scholarly experimentation, the series enables diverse intellectual communities to explore common grounds of expertise.

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Junior Designer

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Junior Sound Designer

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Designer

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MicroLux Chants

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Human-Centered AI Researcher

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UI/UX Designer

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Lab Coordinator

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Project Coordinator

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UX Designer

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Sound Designer & Graphic Designer

Monica Hernandez

Senior Audio Engineer / Content Editor

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Research Coordinator

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Director

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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:
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 	<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>
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<h2>3. Breakthroughs: The Data Stethoscope Project</h2>
The Data Stethoscope Project at the UTD ArtSciLab has:
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 	<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>
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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.
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 	<li>LEARN (to LISTEN TO DATA )</li>
 	<li>EXPLORE (new sound adventures)</li>
 	<li>TEST (to find and improve on the best techniques)</li>
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<h3>3.1 Some tested USE CASES:</h3>
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 	<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>
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<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:
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 	<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>
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<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.

Emerging Technology , AI and Policy Advisor

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ArtSciLab Ethics and Legal Advisor

The Honorable don John McClellan Marshall

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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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Besso

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A virtual interactive lab assistant for the ArtSciLab.

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Researcher

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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.

Meta Life Web Companion

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People

Aadhavan Sibi Mathivanan

Al Madireddy

Alex Garcia Topete

Anthony Inga

Arya Agrawal

Bryson Royal

Cassini Nazir

Chaz Lilly

Dylan Orgeron

Emma Newkirk

Erin Dion

Graziella Detecio

Gyu Tae (Andrew) Oh

Jacob Hunwick

JoAnn Nguyen

Joel Ewing

Kathryn Evans

Kevin He

Kourosh Shahbazi

Kristin Colaneri

Kuo-Wei Lee

Kyle Hamilton

Lauren Ashley Bernal

Linda Anderson

Madison Larmeu

Monica Hernandez

Oskar Olsson

P. Antoinette White

Ritwik Kaikini

Roger Malina

Scot Gresham-Lancaster

Sharath Chandra Ram

The Honorable don John McClellan Marshall

Thouseef Syed

Veronica Liu

Yusra Khan

Yvan Tina