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art science is over -talk by roger malina for jack madden group
june 10 2025 ppt for madden on art science is over.pptx
- 1. Mountains on the Swerves Of Lives Current Research Directions Off-Center for Emergence Studies UTDallas •Roger F Malina •June 10 2025
- 2. Outline • My own career as a hybrid crossing between A/S/T • NASA space astrophysics • Aha moments • Other swerve: became a French Bureaucrat • Unexpected crossing of scientific borders • Became monomaniacal on art/science/technology: but is now the end of artscience? • Setting up observatory of emergent phenomena • Augmented Intellectual Capacity ( not AI) • End of Universities as we Know them, art science otherwise
- 3. Born in France, UK school, US Universities NASA astrophysicist MIT, UC Berkeley, UC London 40 years as Executive Editor of Leonardo at MIT Press Director of Astronomical Observatory in Marseille Set up Institut Mediterranean de Recherches Avancees- artscience residencies UT Dallas, Trying to figure what to work on next. Hence the Off Center for Emergence Studies
- 4. Jack madden asks • What is in wider community that Leonardo is a part of? • What were some seminal works of theory that helped scaffold the transition to a more research-based art approach? (D. Haraway, W.Benjamin, M.Mcluhan...) • How each siloed group; the astronomer, artist, or scholar work to break out of their bubble using that community? • How is art research different than science research and how is publishing in Leonardo different than a science journal? • What could the astronomy field do to support art research? • How should art-research measure success and address the critique of needing measurable outcomes?
- 5. Connection to space art SETI and astrobiology •Member of SETI since 1980s, METI with Doug Vakoch •Co founder of IAF ITACCUS cultural activities and utilization of space •Zero gravity flights with artists in USSR •Published space art taxonomy papers •Leonardo Space Arts Working Group (Paris) •Early Member Dark Sky Association • Aha moment with Arthur C Clarke: NASA claim= space is the next frontier=ISRO claim that space travel is necessary to live on balance on the earth
- 8. Early Ah Ahs • 8: Water Powered Model Rockets Von Karman Frank Malina • 12:Hand carved glass mirror for telescope • 16: IBM punched cards to carve wooden bowls at uk high school • 17: Summer, telescopes borne by balloons Audouin Dolphus • 19: Cambridge Electron Accelerator glue in eye swerve • 20: White Sands launch of x ray telescope • 28 Blue Rainbow EUV PhD rocket launch • 29 Father died, I took over Leonardo art/sci/tech Journal
- 9. FJM Rockets(JPL)> Kinetic Art> Leonardo
- 10. Other swerves • 2000 took sabbatical-France, became French bureaucrat • One institute looked at the universe from orbit • Other only from the ground –space/ground silo • Set up Institut Mediterranee de Recherches Avancee, artscience residencies ( Vesna, nano fire, physics of city) • Merged Institutes of Astrophysics, Ecology, Oceanography. economies of scale , share computers and technicians • But set up the first Ecological Observatory • Two hillsides with predicted and actual rainfall due to climate change
- 12. Next swerve • Forced to retire as a French civil servant at 65 • Tom Linehan of SIGGRAPH fame invited me to Texas • Art Technology and Emerging Communication UTDallas • Professor of Physics and of Arts Humanities Technology • Set up ArtScilab with design faculty Cassini Nazir • Signed contract with UTD until 2030 • In 2024 helped set up Off Center for Emergence Studies
- 14. Why connect art and science motivations then • CP Snow • Jacob Bronowski • Gyorgy Kepes • Frank Malina • Roy Ascott now • Bureaucrats trained in humanities and had no technoscientific expertise • science/art emerge from the same human faculty—the power of pattern finding (S.Zeki) • New Landscapes in Art & Science • If you have to plug it in it isn’t art • Artists are stupid, let the critics do the writing • “technoetics”: synthesise technology &consciousness studies.
- 15. Myth of the tree of knowledge fits bureaucratic structure cognitive evolution Tree of Knowledge Rhizomes of Knowledges
- 16. What is institutional art, science and technology • 1700s-1800: it was called natural philosophy • 1828 first natural science chair University of London • 1860 T.Huxley vs Bishop Wilberforce evolution vs. scripture • Post WWII: science helped with the war, fund it to win peace • 1980s techno science, STEM Dr. Judith A. Ramaley at NSF • “STEM to STEAM” was coined by Georgette Yakman with John Maeda (President of RISD, 2008–2013) • 2023 National Endowment for the Arts, NSF, and U.S. Department of Education Provided platforms for STEAM research, Joan Shigekegawa
- 17. Observations-hopes • The Narrative is Cyclical, Not Linear •Institutional Change Often Follows Cultural Crises WWII, today? • Women/Non-Western Voices Enter Late, Often Lead Transformation •Institutional Infrastructure Is Always Lagging Behind Imaginative Practice • We’re Watching the Birth of a New Epistemic Ecology : new e-Republic of Letters ? Cibervillages
- 18. Motivation changes with age and experience •20 year olds •40 year old •80 year olds • Apprentice and get a job • Publish/exhibit • Get a better job • Build a reputation • Become a manager • Figure things out • Not looking for a job • Or increased reputation
- 19. Silver Ingenuity • Demographic bump of middle-aged students at utdallas •Huge increase in international students •Have worked in industry come back to get a better job •But • Universities teach them as if they were 20 years old •Second Bump: •Huge increase of retired faculty • Who want to research study and publish
- 20. And now: • art sci tech is established let others work on it • trans-generational collsbotion enabled by e-demographics • Silver Ingenuity initiative using Reverse Mentoring • Lab as a ciber-village university ( a la Ascott Planetary Collegium) • Study things that are increasing, decreasing, wobbling or staying constant ( emergence studies using science of complex systems) • Right now working on • Senex • Fred the Heretic • Healing Canvass • Creative Disturbance
- 21. Fred the Heretic • Data base includes only everything Fred Turner has used over 83 years • Can only use words and metaphors he has used • Doing extensive comparative literature studies • The AI calls himself “APERIO’ • I asked him for suggested names • Aperio means “uncover”
- 22. Healing Canvass • Neuroscientist students; Shreyas Chandra et group • First Phase • Test the neuroscience of biophilia in our lab • By reorganizing the content of the lab every week • How does the biophillic painting and plants affect how well we work together • Second Phase • Develop AI assisted e-chess and e-cricket • Test biophyllic effect on
- 24. Invention of writing had pluses and minuses so does AI we need Augmented Intelligence Capacity AI caveat: Use if for fun but not for logic
- 25. End of Universities as we have known them Originally made sense • Access to classrooms • Access to books • Often cheap • Access to physical equipment/labs • Intellectual interactions • Hosting of conferences • State sponsorship • Diplomas 4 BSC, 2MA, 6phd years • Often unsiloed • Local embedding and updating • Tested raditional learning and No longer makes sense • No longer necessary • No longer necessary • Very expensive • Still necessary • On line and hybrid discussion groups • TedX on line • Financial model bankrupt • Lifelong learning, certificates • Over siloed • Pedagogical inertia • Little incorporation of brain/cognitive sciences
- 26. Manifesto 1. The Two Cultures Never Merged—They Mutated. • 2. Renaissance Myths Obscure Power: dont invoke Da VInci 3. Transgenerational Collaboration Is a Radical Medium. • 4. ArtScience Is Dead. Long Live Symbolic Infrastructure. • 5. The University as a Central Knowledge Organ Is Dying. • 6. Institutional Memory Has Become a Design Problem. • 7. Intellectual Ownership Is Now a Dynamic Ritual. • 8. SETI Are Not About Aliens—They’re About Us. • 9. STEAM Worked Best as a Trojan Horse. • 10. Witnessing a Return of the Republic of e-Letters ?
- 27. •What were some seminal works of theory that helped scaffold the transition to a more research-based art approach? (Donna Haraway, Walter Benjamin, Marshall Mcluhan, instructional art) •How each siloed group; the astronomer, artist, or scholar work to break out of their bubble using that community? •How is art research different than science research and how is publishing in Leonardo different than a science journal? •What could the astronomy field do to support art research? •How should art-research measure success and address the critique of needing measurable outcomes?
- 28. Thank you see you at no 17 in 2030