this is a presentation of lessons learned from my careers so far-it was originally presented to UTD Bass school students on sept 11 2023

1. Arts, Sciences, Humanities
Roger Frank Malina
Monday Aug 23 2021
Initial Seminar Session

2. Big Picture-Panoramic- Astronomer’s view
• ATCM 6325-501 Arts, Sciences, and Humanities 2023
• Examination of current and emerging topics, approaches, and
practices at the intersections of the arts, sciences, and humanities
• Aka Convergence, Hybridity, Nexus of Arts, Sciences of Humanities
• Participants in the course will advance new research questions and
inquiries at multiple areas of convergence.
• Will enhance their own graduate research by drawing on trans-
disciplinary methods-
• can be repeated for credit as topics evolve, or happy to work with you
in independent study.
• You will develop materials that will help you finish your degree better,
sooner

3. Enrolled: Go around the table- 1 min- so we know
how to pronounce your name, and recognize you
Short 5 minute presentation later
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4. A Disturbed Childhood
Frank Malina, Kinetic Artist
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Frank Malina, Research Engineer
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5. Marjorie Duckworth (Malina)
Mother, Army Captain, Textile Worker
BSc Sociology 1939, Accountant and
Math, HR at UNESCO
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6. Career in Science
• Physics/Astrophysics
– PI NASA EUVE Satellite @UC Berkeley
– Telescope Development/Data/Analysis/Mission
Operations
– Observational Cosmology Group Laboratoire
d”Astrophysique de Marseille
– Research Administration
• Director Observatoire de Marseille Provence
• Co Founder Institut Pytheas
– Observational Sciences
– Astronomy, Environmental Studies,
Oceanography, Ecology
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7. Career in Art and Humanities
• Founder two arts non profits
• Leonardo/Int Soc for Arts/Sci/Tech – S. F.
• Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Techno-
sciences, Paris
• Executive Editor Leonardo Publications MIT
Press
• Journals, Book Series, e-zines, egroups
• ArtSciLabs Research at UT Dallas
• Distinguished Chair of Art and Technology
• Professor of Physics
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8. Ok each of you 5 minutes or so or in any “
mode”
• Mode:
• ppt
• Pecha kucha
• Video recording
• Reading
• Performing
• Poetry
• Mathematics ?
• There is no best method to
present one’s work
• Many good ones
• Many bad ones
• And we often misfit the mode to
the audience
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9. Concept Transfer, Knowledge Transfer
• Embrained knowledge dependent on conceptual skills and
cognitive abilities. practical, high-level knowledge, where
objectives are met through perpetual recognition and revamping.
Tacit knowledge can be embrained, though it is mainly
subconscious.
• Embodied oriented, consists of contextual practices. More of a
social acquisition, as how individuals interact in, interpret
environment creates non-explicit type of knowledge.
• Encultured process of achieving shared understandings through
socialization and acculturation. Language/negotiation become the
discourse of this type of knowledge.

10. And ..but there are other taxonomies..no best one
• Embedded Tacit,resides within systematic routines. Relates to
relationships between roles, technologies, formal procedures,emergent
routines within a complex system. In order to initiate any specific line of
business knowledge transition helps a lot.
• Encoded Information conveyed in signs,symbols (books, manuals, data
bases) and decontextualized into codes of practice. Rather than a
specific type of knowledge, deals with transmission, storage and
interrogation of knowledge.
• Concept Transfer see Learning for Adaptive Language Understanding Su Zhu
and Kai Yu Education Commission for Intelligent Interaction and Cognitive. See
shared paper.
• Hmmm what would a taxonomy of memory be ? Same or different?

11. Eg concept : Ashes to Ashes
• The phrase 'ashes to ashes' expresses the notion that we come
from dust and we return to dust.
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• How does the concept “ashes to ashes’ in your own research
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gk1DcFz-Uc
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_to_Ashes
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12. To work with in transdisciplinary ways, its important to
identify shared ‘tools’ that we all know and like to use
• eg Box Folder- have used these in this seminar for several years and seems to
work, but doesn’t work in other settings, that’s OK
• There is no such thing as a ‘best tool’ , there are many good tools
• Each of us has your own box folder, you can access each others folders
• If you want to keep something private between you and I, do it. Create a private
folder that only you and I have access to. Happy to sign an NDA. I will provide an
example of violation of NDA
• Note- different disciplines have different concepts of Intellectual Property.
• A custom in one discipline may violate customs in another discipline. I will give
one example from my own PhD in the 70s.
• Can each of you provide an example in your own work ? If not that’s amazing.

13. “Reputation Management’
• How can we design this seminar so each of us is more likely to get the job we
want after we graduate.
• Each of our directions is different, or perhaps over-lapping.
• To get hired we need to get people’s attention
• This is done differently for every discipline, profession.
• I have opened a reputation management folder for each of you.
• Please upload before next week your latest Resume or Curriculum Vitae.
• If its available on line ( good idea), just upload the link ( yeah Linked In is
sometimes ok, not always)
• Let’s identify some things we could do this semester that might increase your
reputation/get the job(s) you want.
• Happy to work with you on a letter of recommendation from me

14. Reputation Management 101
• DESIGN the name you use in your professional activity.
• Change your name if it would help make sure you are not confused with other
people on line who use the same name as you.
• 20 years ago I changed by publishing name from R. Malina to R. F. Malina
• R. Malina is famous on line – he is a famous person in sports medicine.
• He is in Texas, too
• Biography: R.Malina
• Professor Emeritus, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education,
University of Texas at Austin Adjunct Research Professor, Department of
Kinesiology, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas
• If you get married and change your name be careful about name
confusion.
• If we might have an academic career, get a free ORCID no, like a Soc.Sec.No

15. Concept of “Deliverables”
• At the end of the semester I will evaluate, react, critique, respond to a
‘deliverable(s)’ you have created during the semester.
• This could a paper you plan to submit for publication before the end of the
semester.
• Or an idea diary, that explores ideas you had over the semester, and identify a
few you think are worth pursuing.
• Charlie Tsui, ATEC MA student, did a deliverable that was a video of him break-
dancing to data collected from sensors on plants.
• You can evolve/change the deliverable over the semester BUT please preserve
the ‘process documentation’ as a ‘deliverable’. Eg multiple drafts of a paper.
• I don’t feel the concept of ‘grades’ is useful for reputation management of
graduate students. If you feel you MUST get an A+ lets discuss early on.

16. Seminar Methodology
• Please attend every Monday evening, unless not possible. What matters is the
deliverable at the end of the semester. Weekly attendance is not required
• Our Lab does weekly O.A.S.E.S –feel free to attend-
• Our Art Science Experimental Seminars.
• I will add you to the ArtSciLab email list- unless you don’t want me too.
• I am available for ‘frequent’ one on one meetings
• Please set up your first one on one with me soon. If you don’t want any more, OK
• Some people find the 1:1 crucial, others not, that’s OK.
• Each of you upload and present a weekly ‘progress report’ which gives all of us an idea
of ‘what I did last week’ and ‘what I plan to do next week”- present 5 minute max
• If you agree I will include you in our lab’s weekly report system- we do data analytics …..
• Some people find this method sucks- don’t do it. Propose a different method to create
feedback loops beyond us. ( Cybernetics 101)

17. Aside
• Universities are behind the times, they give graduate degrees to
individuals not groups.
• Yet 90% of our professional work will not be done alone.
• If you want to collaborate with others on your seminar
deliverable, that’s fine with me. Just inform us,and cite the co-
authors in the deliverables.
• The awards I am the proudest of are ‘group awards’
• N.A.S.A Group Achievement Award for EUVE satellite
• The Ars Electronica Golden Nika Award to Leonardo

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19. 1. My Own Career Path
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20. There is no direct route in life……..
• Julian Gresser, Harvard Law Professor
• Pioneered ‘strategic alliances’ between US and Japanese companies.
• I try to apply ‘strategic alliance” methods between ‘disciplines’
• His book “Piloting Through Chaos’ the Explorer’s Mind, changed my
mind.
• There is no direct line in life, but we all need ‘integrity and a
“compass”
• His compass needles are: Professional, Personal, Physical, Philosophical
• I hate self help books but
• Ideas, Methods but also People and Places are part of ones ‘annotated
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21. ArtScilab @ ATEC University of Texas at Dallas
• Opened 2013
• We work on research that requires collaboration between artists,
scientists, engineers, humanities researchers
• Cultural Timeliness ( why now ?)
• Society Urgency ( justify cost of collaboration )
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22. Project Areas
• Multi-Modal Representation of Large Data
• Agile/Mobile Visualisation/Sonification/Audification /AR-VR….. CRISP ?
• New DATAs project ( data analytics team for the art sciences). Prof Judd Bradbury JSOM
• Artificial ‘Meta-Cognition’ we collect data on ourselves to improve our collective
behaviours and enhance desirable outcomes eg helping members of the lab find good
better jobs as soon as possible
• Experimental Publishing and Knowledge Curation (EXPUCU)
• MIT press: “Multi-Modal Publishing”, A2RU Groundworks publication platform
• ArtSciLab Carousel: using curatorial gaming to show work (art work, science work,
artscience work)
• STEM TO STEAM research:
• Eg Esports player development- how on line games help develop desirable and
less desirable brain functions,
• Arts Based Learning for Business with JSOM IIE 22

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24. 2. The Leonardo Organisations
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The Leonardo Organisations
• Journal Founded 1967 Paris
• For Scientists deeply engaged in the arts and
humanities
• For Artists Seeking to appropriate science and
technology for cultural purposes
• For scholars studying the interaction of the arts,
sciences and technology
• Champions writing by artists about their own
work.
• Peer review. Currently 4th in google scholar art
journal rankings
• VVesna, J. Gimzewski, Blue Morph

26. Leonardo Organisations :
47 years, 8000 authors , MIT Press
Arts & New Technologies………&Sciences…..
Leonardo Book Series, Journals, e-zines
• 1967 – 1995 the central issues were art and technology
• 1995- Art-Science as a burgeoning nexus
• Humanities, Social Sciences, Design “nubs”

27. Evolution of the Leonardo Knowledge Network
over 40 years
cf Leyeserdorf and Salah
• Maps on the basis of the Arts & Humanities Citation
Index: Leonardo and Art Journal
• (Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology 61(4) (2010)
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28. Enough for a Monday night….next time hybrid ?
• Set up 1:1 meeting
• Upload stuff to your box folder ( eg resume/CV)
• Before next Monday upload and make a short presentation on yourself and the
direction your graduate research is taking
• Preferred mode: record a 5 minute ppt presentation – upload it before the
seminar. We will play it and discuss.
• End of seminar ‘ritual” we are now hybrid human beings ( 50% on line, 50% in
physical world)
• Human ‘nature’ is evolving
• We need to design new digi-indigenous rituals and customs/costumes (wearing
masks is the easy part)
• Maybe each of us could design a short ritual to end a meeting with
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