roger malina leo50 with zwangshi 60th celebration , beijing

1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM LEONARDO TO ZHUANGSHI
Prof Roger F Malina
Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology, Professor of Physics
University of Texas at Dallas
ArtSciLab, School of Art Technology and Emerging Communications
And
Executive Editor Leonardo Publications, ISAST/OLATS and MIT Press

2. I come for wisdom from the Older Child to the
Younger Child !
60th Birthday (1958) 50th Birthday (1968)

4. And I come to Honor My Father and His Best Friend
钱学森 Qian Xuesen born 1911 Frank Malina born 1912

5. At Caltech, Von Karman, Malina, Tsien and colleagues
launched the first rocket into outer space and founded the
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

6. Malina “moved” to Paris, Quian moved to China
Founding group
UNESCO, International Academy of Astronautics and
Leonardo Journal, Pioneer Kinetic Artist Founded Chinese aerospace program

7. *
The “Leonardo” Organisations
International Society for Arts/Science/Technology
Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Technosciences
• Journal Founded 1968 Paris
• For Scientists, Engineers deeply
engaged in the arts/humanities
• For Artists appropriating
science and technology
• For scholars studying the
interaction of the arts, sciences
and technology
• Championed writing by artists
about their own work.
• VVesna, J. Gimzewski, Blue Morph

8. The Leonardo community of practice have helped
redesign the arts by integrating science and technology
• Integrating, appropriating and
redirecting emerging technologies
for cultural purposes
• Electonic, digital arts and music
• bio-arts, robotic art
• VR, AR…I…CRISPR…..
• Integrating, appropriating and
redirecting scientific research for
cultural purposes
• Data art, computer sciene/AI
• space art

9. Now the arts, design must help Redesign Science and
Engineering
• Redesign the scientific methods
• Sciences of complexity
• Computer simulations as
hypotheses
• New concepts of causality
• Epistemological Inversion due to
big data
• Instruments that can study our own
minds, implicit biases
• AI making discoveries independent
of human intervention
• The scientific method has always

10. Redesign the social embedding of science
• H. Nowotny, former president of the E.R. C. called for ‘socially robust
science
• Include artists and designers in all big data projects
• Redesigning the PhD
– PhD in Art and Design underway
– PhD to train ‘for research’ and “through research”
– Mismatch between long term research careers and PhD production
– Training teams not just individuals
• Funding citizen science, open science, professional amateurs
• Address the rising concerns about non-reproducible science and
fake data , predatory publishing, the tragedy of the internet

11. The Leonardo “Community of
Practice” Today
• 15,000 people
have published in
Leonardo
• On every continent
• Every media
• Most areas of
science,
engineering,
math,medicine