ethics of curiosity ppt presented to the graduate students of the art science and humanities seminar at utdallas on aug 31

1. STEAM-ASH Aug 31 2020

2. Big Picture
• Work on your deliverables for this semester.
• One or Many, Alone or Together
• Each students list of deliverable(s) is different-
that’s the idea.
• The semester projects are supposed to help
you do your MA/MFA/PHD quicker better using
material from the seminar as appropriate
• Grades are due Dec ?. I will review your folder
beginning a few days before the deadline. Tell
me when your folder is complete.

3. March 9 2020 EXPUCU

4. Next week: Start describing possible
deliverable(s) iterate each week
1. Draft title/subtitle (s)
2. 2-3 sentence summary
3. “Duration” of each deliverable ( x weeks)
4. What key disciplines will the micro-project
bring together.
5. Ethical/Moral/Legal issues that the
microproject/deliverable project might raise
6. What mode(s) for each ( text, ppt, video,
VR, game, performance, art, etc)
7. Answer questions that I haven’t asked .

5. Weekly Progress Reports
1. Each week update/re-date the list of micro-project
deliverables
2. These reports are process documentation and I will
include them in your deliverables.
3. If micro-project isn’t working “well”, stop, document ,
summarise what happened/came out of it ( 0 is ok)
deliver it.
4. Or pause and restart.
5. Each week you will have up to 5 minutes to present
what you worked on last week
6. I would like you to try different “modes” of presenting
your progress report.

6. If you don’t like these methods
• Invent your own
• There are no best methods in transdisciplinary
practice, many good ones
• Practice on yourself, try some new method
• Practice with us in the seminar
• The destination is what matters
• Not the journey ( unlike life itself ?)
• In this this case, I will review your deliverables
at the end of the semester, but also look at the
journey you took to get there to ‘give’ a grade

7. Experiment on Each Other
• I am trying to see if MSTEAMS channels for
subtopics of shared interest are helpful or not.
• Varying the format of the seminar.
• Suggestions ?
• How can we turn physical distancing to social
proximity ?
• Roy Ascott: Moist Media
• https://synthbioart.texashats.org/archive-
terminology/moist-media/

8. Discussion ? Questions ?
• lets have 2 progress reports now
• How do we decide each time the order of
speakers ?
• One person go ahead and talk on what you
did last week related to the seminar.
• Be aware of group dynamics factors (
personality, gender, ethnic, languate..etc)
• Stand up or sit down to present
• Ok someone- start speaking..5 min

9. Next speaker
• Up to 5 min
• Any mode of presentation ( ppt, song,
dance, text, speaker, …)

10. Short new Topic: Modes
• Modes of Presenting
• Modes of Observation
• Different disciplines can use different modes,
combination of different senses
• Combinations with augmented senses ( eg
microscope)
• Extended senses ( x ray photography)
New Senses ( Gravitational waves in space
time)

11. Power of Observation Framework™
Scanning
Giving anorientation
Attending
Focusing intentionally and
over time
Connecting
Processing information and
making new connections
Transforming
Engaging deeply and evoking a
personal response
Looking at the whole
Looking quickly not thoroughly
Taking quick inventory
Assessing place, object, or experience
Making no judgements
Looking closely and quietly
Staying in the moment and reflecting
Identification, description, and analysis of key elements
Discovering, selecting, and concentrating on a particular aspect
Focus on the work without making judgement
Investigating content and context to create new meaning
Connecting new & old; self & world Comparing/contrasting images,
ideas & meaning Discovering & synthesizing new relationships
Understanding points of views, personal biases, diverse
perspectives Interpreting the narrative and emotional content
Leads to more personal experiences that can be shared Creating, imagining, and
innovating new ideas and experiences Internalizing and reflecting on personal
responses
Applying insight and knowledge in new ways to engage a personal meaning
Responding with multiple senses, multiple interpretations, and possibilities Assimilating
experiences to create memories
created by Bonnie
Pitman

12. Pauline Oliveros; Deep Listening
• Listening to learn and absorb ( no judgements)
• Listen to focus on something new/interesting
• Listening to contradict
• Listening to agree ( cheers, clapping)
• Listening to connect
• Listening while doing something else
• etc. There are many different modes for each
sense. Brain connects them to make “sense”
• Every discipline has different modes of
observing ( astronomers vs oceanographers)

13. Questions , Discuss

14. What did you hear as you
looked at the photo
•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJP5
qR5Na0

15. Next singer ? Ok speaker then

16. Next

17. Ethics of Curiosity
As Applied to Transdisciplinarity
Roger F Malina
Does each discipline have its own ethics
Its own morals
Its own legal restrictions ?

18. Is there an Ethics of Curiosity
• Key Texts: Sundar Sarukkai
–Sarukkai Book: 2012 “What is
Science”
–Text : “Ethics of Curiosity”
• Free PDF on line

20. Next speaker
•

21. Next dancer
• .

22. Do artists and scientists have
shared ethical systems
• Do different cultures,
genders,… disciplines
share ethical, moral, legal
frameworks for doing,
making, publishing ??
• eg Plagiarism v Remix
culture
• IP: prior disclosure
• IRB
• Copyright, fair use
• space law –judge

24. Provocation
• Artists can experiment on people without an
IRB review
• When you document and publish work that
involves other people where is the boundary
between plagiarism and artists freedom
– archival publication methodologies

25. next
•

26. Neil White
• The visitor becomes a consensual
participant - an informed Self –Experimenter.
• The visitor is faced with a choice to
consume an artwork that contains the
ingredients of Methylene – with only the
clinical information.
• and to keep the artwork they are given as an
intact form, signed by the artist

27. Art Oriente Objet
injecting Marion Laval with horse blood
plasma.
• See MAKE MONEY NOT ART

28. Art Orienté Objet
31st May 2012, Paris, France

29. Ethical Training of Artists and
Scientists
• HCS 6399
• SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AND RESEARCH
ETHICS
• Resource: Professor Emily A. Tobey
•
ARE THERE ANY ETHICAL ISSUES
INVOLVED IN YOUR PROJECTS ?

30. + 1
• ,,,,,,if you did a deliverable with someone
else you can present together

31. next

32. your own microprojects
• A) What are the sources of your curiosity
– When will you stop looking/ working on a project
– What factors drive the direction your curiosity takes
you ?
– How do you express doubt
• B) What ethical, moral, legal issues are
involved in your project
– Publishing
– Professional Ethics
– Specific Issues ( rogue Leonardo site)

33. Curiosity and Ethics
• Curiosity: Desire to Know, Explore, Create
• Ethics is the branch of study dealing with what
is the proper course of action for humans.
• Human - Human
• New Situations from Virtual Humans and
Big Data Situations
– Human Machine
– Machine Human
– Machine Machine
– Human Machine Machine Human

34. And now You

35. Take a stand up break

36. so
• what are the differences between ethics,
morals and legality ?
• Does it matter if your project is un-ethical,
immoral or illegal
• To whom does it matter ?
• Etc
• I will now skip rapidly through the next
slides

37. Aristotle’s Ethics
Ethical theory as a field distinct from the
theoretical sciences.
• Methodology must match its subject
matter— good action
• Improve our lives, and therefore its
principal concern is the nature of human
well-being:
– Anthropocentric
– How does Deep Ecology affect this ?

38. Kantian Ethics
• Deontology (Kant)
Normative theories regarding which choices
are morally required, forbidden, or permitted
• vs Consequentialism
– choices are to be morally assessed solely by
the states of affairs they bring about.
• Categorical Imperative
– Universality
– Humans as end not means to an end
– Individuals behave as moral authority

39. Next speaker

48. The Nature of “evidence”
• What is proof
• What is evidence
• Professional rhetoric
• Visual Evidence
• Quantitative vs qualitative evidence

52. Intellectual Honesty
Integrity
• You don’t lie
– “Veritas duo sigma”
– Gran Sasso: neutrinos faster than speed of
light
• You don’t cheat
– My graduate school incident re idea theft
– Author attribution
– Self Plagiarism

53. Epistemic Communism
• the common ownership of scientific
discoveries, according to which scientists
give up intellectual property in exchange for
recognition and esteem.
• “open publishing” vs commercial publishing
• Open Data
• IP, Patents
• Commercial Research
• Classified Research
– LBL, EUVE

54. Organized Skepticism
• All ideas must be tested and are subject to
rigorous, structured community scrutiny.
• Repeatability
– Big science, most scientific results are no longer
replicated
• Climate Change Modeling
– Prediction vs retrodiction
• Reproducibility
– Metadata, calibration data, open data, citizen
science

55. Dis-Interestedness
• according to which scientists are
rewarded for acting in ways that
outwardly appear to be selfless
• Research Contracts vs Grants
– “tobacco’ industry, “facebook ?”
• Classified Research
• Military Research
– EUVE

56. Impersonality
• But authorship location matters
• Authorship language matters
• Reputation: location, group, people
• Emplorer/Employee relationship
• Social Network status

57. Universality
• according to which claims to truth are
evaluated in terms of universal or
impersonal criteria, and not on the
basis of authority, race, class, gender,
religion, age, or nationality;
• What is true in Singapore is true in Dallas

58. Next speaker

59. And now

64. hmm

65. No ?

72. Do the Same Ethical Rules Apply
to Scientists and Artists
• Do they share cultural and ethical values ?
• What happens when artists and scientists
collaborate
• Institutional Contexts
• Examples:
– Use of Human Subjects
– Genetic Modification
– Environmental Modification

73. Judge Marshall
• New Situations : Virtual Humans
• Autonomous Machines
• Big Data “cloud computing”
– Human Machine
• Remotely Operated Drones
– Machine Human
• Autonomous Drones
– Machine Machine
• Automatic Stock Trading
• ATM Machines

74. your own Project Topic
• A) What are the sources of your curiosity
– When will you stop looking/ working on a project
– What factors drive the direction your curiosity takes
you ?
– Are you driven by other factors than curiosity ?
Which ?
• B) What ethical issues are involved in your
thesis project
– Professional Ethics
– Specific Issues, past examples