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.

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Experimental Publisher

<p>Swati is a graduate student pursuing her Master’s in Literature from the School of Arts and Humanities at University of Texas at Dallas. She is part of the ArtSciLab as an Experimental Publisher. An explorer at heart, she loves to experiment with every form of literature. She loves to read and occasionally turns her thoughts into words.</p>



<p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/swati-anwesha-35440a170">https://www.linkedin.com/in/swati-anwesha-35440a170</a></p>

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Foodar

Inspire people’s ideas about what to eat when they are hungry!

Student Collaborator

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Christopher Lee

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Data Analyst & Web Developer

<p>Kirtan is a current Computer Science  graduate student at The University of Texas at Dallas having an inclination towards Intelligence Systems. He completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT).</p>



<p>He has gained an experience of Data Science and Full Stack Web Development by working in various internships. His research interest is towards Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms and has worked on research papers and articles based on that. In the ArtSciLab he is responsible for managing and re-designing the lab website, helping peers in developing their Microprojects and working on the D.A.T.A.s project going on in the Lab.</p>



<p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirtanpathak4/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirtanpathak4/</a></p>

Kirtan Pathak

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Constellation Mapper

Social network study OF "People" and "Abstract Ideas"

Crier

Weekly newsletter with upcoming events, call for volunteers and much more!

Associate Member

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<h2>Education</h2>



<ul><li>PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, 2016</li><li>MS, Purdue University, 1992</li><li>BS, Texas A &amp; M University, 1991</li></ul>



<h2>Courses</h2>



<ul><li>BUAN 6346 Big Data</li><li>MIS 6380 Data Visualization</li><li>MIS 6309 Business Data Warehousing</li><li>ITSS 4355 Data Visualization</li><li>ITSS 4352 Web Analytics</li></ul>



<h2>Current / Recent Research</h2>



<ul><li>Data Visualization</li><li>Analytics Leadership</li><li>Data Narrative Communication</li></ul>



<h2>Awards and Recognition</h2>



<ul><li>Chairman’s Client Service Award–Price Waterhouse</li><li>Dallas Area Client Service Award–Price Waterhouse</li><li>Entrepreneur of the Year–Krannert School of Management</li><li>National Electronics Distribution Association Scholar</li><li>Professional Association of Industrial Distribution–President</li><li>Chairman’s Award–Dell Computer</li></ul>



<h2>Professional Organizations</h2>



<ul><li>City of Dallas Municipal Board, Commission on Productivity and Innovation</li><li>Coalition of Open Government</li><li>Dallas Northeast Chamber of Commerce</li><li>Friends of the Dallas Public Library Board Member</li></ul>

Judd Bradbury

Lab Manager

<p><em>Linson Miranda is a Master’s student pursuing a degree in Business Analytics at the University of Texas at Dallas. With an undergraduate in Computer Engineering and a passion for statistics, he is currently working on multiple projects with the ArtSciLab, where he wishes to use his analytical and management skills to benefit the lab and the local community. A tech enthusiast, he loves working on novel and revolutionary ideas that aim to address social and intellectual issues. Linson has also been singing at his church since his childhood which got him interested in the performing arts, and since then, he has dabbled in writing, video editing, and direction. He is also an avid reader and loves reading fiction in his free time.</em></p>

Linson Miranda

<p>Omkar is a Computer Science Masters student at The University of Texas at Dallas in Machine and Deep learning . Before this, he completed Bachelors in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Information Technology.</p>



<p>He has worked in the domain of Data Science, Machine Learning and Full Stack Web Development in various startups. He also likes to research in the domain of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing and have published papers. Furthermore, he was a Google Explore ML Facilitator, helping Google to train students on campus in Machine Learning. Apart from this, you can find him working on various side projects and hackathons.</p>

Omkar Ajnadkar

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Physics-Art Coordinator

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.

Ayen Kuol

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Griot Sayansi  is a gateway for interdisciplinary, intercultural and interpersonal exchange using the Spoken Word Poetic expression .

DPV.SI

Integrating Domestic, Physical, and Virtual Spaces through Design

Research Collaborator

<p>Aaron Tate is the Head of Emerging Tech at Center for BrainHealth and Technology Lead on the BrainHealth Project. His game Digital Emotes was an honorable mention at the 2020 Games for Change – VR Alcove competition. Aaron was a member of the 2019 Oculus Launchpad Cohort, Co-founded VR for Good-DFW and was awarded a MegaGrant from Epic Games for Charisma, a social training platform which was also a finalist in the 2017 International Educational Games Competition in Graz, Austria. His current research involves immersion, biofeedback, data visualization and human-computer interface.</p>

Aaron Tate

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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Researcher

Joao Silveira

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UX Researcher

<p>Studying the brain has given me a unique perspective on how&nbsp;people process information and interact with the world.&nbsp;I became interested in user experience research to apply my expertise in&nbsp;brain and&nbsp;behavioral sciences to help designers develop products that complement the underlying mechanisms of cognition with principles of human factors and human computer interaction.&nbsp;</p>



<p>While earning my bachelor's degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Performing Arts, my interests converged to conduct a research project investigating transfer appropriate processing and how attention influences memory of music with the NeuroPsychometric Research Lab. Proceeding to earn my master's degree in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience, I continued to study music and conduct research investigating factors that influence visual and auditory memory distortions.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In the ArtSciLab, I have collaborated on projects researching applications of multimodal&nbsp;visual and auditory representations of information, and conducted user experience research and usability testing on these applications as well as the redesign of the university website navigation system. Current projects in the lab are researching the enhanced cognitive capabilities and well-being&nbsp;of Esports players.&nbsp;</p>



<p>As an avid musician, I also teach piano lessons, training people to interpret visual representations of music via interaction with the instrument to create the pleasurable experience of music.</p>

Kristen Deupree

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Lead Project Manager

Hello, I am a graduate of the Behavioral &amp; Brain Science school with a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Dallas. I am currently working in UTD's ArtSciLab under Dr. Roger Malina as the Project Manager for Esports Player Development project which promotes cognitive longevity and positive psychosocial behaviors of the 21st-century athlete and gaming communities through qualitative research.

During my academic career at UT Dallas, I was a RA for 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, I investigated the positive affect induced by musical tempos in the fall of 2018. Over the summer of 2018, I interned for UT Southwestern’s Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care where I researched Cognitive Impairments Influenced by Parental Relationships in Major Depressive Disorder.

In addition to research, I have been President of the Sigma Kappa Delta English Honors Society and founder of Eastfield’s Outdoor Club. I am also a member of Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology (UTD Chapter President for 2019), Phi Theta Kappa, National Honors Society, and The National Society of Leadership and Success.

I began my journey with the ArtSciLab as Dr. Kathryn Evans’ Research Assistant during the implementation of CDASH curriculum at UT Dallas in spring 2019. Since graduation, I have worked on other projects involving the merging of disciplines: Art-Based Learning for Business (ABLB) and Tale of Two Thinking Systems (ToTTS).

Lauren Ashley Bernal

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Esports

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.

Culture and AI

Experimental Publishing and Curation (ExPuCu) is the initiative of ArtSciLab to promote the idea of easy and fast publication

Emerging Technology , AI and Policy Advisor

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

Sharath Chandra Ram

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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.

besso

A virtual interactive lab assistant for the ArtSciLab.

Frank Dufour

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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.

Deputy Co-Director of Performative Research

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.

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.

SEAD Exemplars

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

Managing Editor

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

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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.

Leonardo eBook Series

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.

Researcher/ Alumnus

Ritwik Kaikini is an Immersive Experience Designer, Art-Science Researcher, Writer and Musician. He graduated in 2018 with an MA in Arts and Technology in 2018 from The University of Texas at Dallas specializing in Science Communication, Philosophy of Sound and Sonification. His project ‘Micro Lux Chants’ in the ArtSciLab, was awarded the Best Thesis Award at the ATEC department for the year 2018. He practices sound art and works on intersections of poetry, music, sound and language. He likes to create immersive experiences using projection mapping and spatial audio. He also teaches the guitar on weekends.
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 	<li><strong>SoundCloud:</strong> <a title="Original URL: https://soundcloud.com/openkaan. Click or tap if you trust this link." href="https://soundcloud.com/openkaan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="2">https://soundcloud.com/openkaan</a></li>
 	<li><strong>YouTube:</strong> <a title="Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/ritwikjk. Click or tap if you trust this link." href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ritwikjk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="3">https://www.youtube.com/user/ritwikjk</a></li>
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Ritwik Kaikini

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Micro Lux Chants is a multi-disciplinary art-science project where we seek to understand the life cycle of bioluminescent bacterium - Aliivibrio Fischeri through the medium of sound.

Meta-Life

The web companion of the Leonardo e-book Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts (MIT Press, 2014)

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<p style="text-align: center">Associate Professor of Instruction - Arts And Humanities</p>
<p style="text-align: center">University of Texas at Dallas</p>
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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.
<h3 id="preparation">Professional Preparation</h3>
<ul>
 	<li class="entry">Ph.D. - Arts and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas - 2016</li>
 	<li class="entry">M.S. - Music, University of California - 1978</li>
 	<li class="entry">M.A - Mathematics, University of California, San Diego - 1976</li>
 	<li class="entry">B.A. - Mathematics, University of California, San Diego - 1974</li>
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<h3 id="appointments">Appointments</h3>
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 	<li class="entry">Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer , <em>University of Texas at Dallas</em> [1998–2010]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Arts Coordinator and Senior Lecturer , <em>University of Texas at Dallas</em> [1995–1998]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Senior Lecturer in Music , <em>University of Texas at Dallas</em> [1994–Present]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Instructor , <em>University of California, San Diego</em> [1992–1994]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Instructor , <em>Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC</em> [1982–1983]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Instructor , <em>Menlo College, Menlo Park, California</em> [1979–1980]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Instructor , <em>University of San Diego, San Diego, California</em> [1978–1979]</li>
 	<li class="entry">Teaching assistant , <em>University of California, San Diego</em> [1974–1978]</li>
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Kathryn Evans

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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

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Curriculum Development in the Arts, Science, and Humanities

Projects

Foodar

Foodar

Constellation Mapper

Constellation Mapper

The ArtSciLab Crier

The ArtSciLab Crier

D.A.T.A

D.A.T.A

ExPuCu

ExPuCu

Past Projects

Griot Sayansi

Griot Sayansi

DPV.SI

DPV.SI

Esport Player Development

Esport Player Development

Data Stethoscope

Data Stethoscope

Besso

Besso

HERMES

HERMES

Creative Disturbance

Creative Disturbance

SEAD Exemplars

SEAD Exemplars

ARTECA

ARTECA

Leonardo eBook Series

Leonardo eBook Series

Micro Lux Chants

Micro Lux Chants

Meta Life Web Companion

Meta Life Web Companion

CDASH

CDASH