roger malina presentation for the SCANZ leonardo 50th anniversary

2. Leonardo founding
network
• Frank Malina.. J Needham..J
Brownowski.. C P Snow Max
Bill..Buckminster Fuller..C H
Waddington..E
Gombrich..Robert
Maxwell...R Arnheim. G
Kepes
J.J. Gibson..Liliane Lijn..Roy
Ascott..Pauline Oliveros..Sonia
Sheridan..Jasia Reichardt
Gyorgy Kepes..Jonas
Salk…Takis.. R Arnheim, Frank
Oppenheimer, Herbert Franke

3. Their Context in 1950s
• A generation traumatized by WW II
• Dedicated to rebuilding Europe and
international cooperation in both sciences and
arts—UN..EU..NATO…..UNESCO
– As a force for global development and peace
• A belief that the best minds of artists and
scientists were needed ..woven together.. ( C P
Snow)
• Cultural optimism science and technology-
“science the endless frontier”

4. Leonardo 50th Birthday
• I Recommended closing Leonardo on our 50th
– Vision of the founders has been accomplished
• If you have to plug it in, it cannot be art
– Art forms enabled by digital and biological
technologies becoming dominant art forms
• Art is local not international
– Artists and scientists collaborate over the world
• Artists don’t use art theory
– Neuroscience, Cog- Science, Neuro-aesthetics
• Artists don’t write, Art Critics do
– Artists and designers can now publish as well
as create and perform their art

5. 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

6. But have we failed to implement their
vision
• “Science the Endless
Frontier” did not “win the
peace”
• “green revolution’ didn’t
solve world hunger and
development
• UN did not end war
• Climate Change is out of
control
– We have to redesign our
culture..

7. No Culture Has Redesigned Itself
There is no where to migrate to.

8. Western Science Itself Has Failed
• A call to artists,
designers and
humanists to co-
design science itself
• Both the Scientific
Method
• And the Social
Embedding of Science
• Replace Western
Science with Trans-
Cultural Science

9. Redesigning the social embedding of science
• Helga Nowotny, call for “socially
robust science”
•Hacking, Making, Co-Design Space
as loci of discovery, innovation
and invention. Alt Spaces, TAZs
• Open Data, Open Science
•Re invention of the ‘amateur’ (
Levy Leblon, Stiegler) ‘amatorat”
..the professional Amateur
• Trans-disciplinary and Trans-
social collaboration ……….
•Local Knowledge and Global
Knowledge

10. •Enabling new forms of
collaboration between Science,
Engineering, Medicine
• & Arts, Design and Humanities
Today
•“STEM TO STEAM” Integrating
the arts/design/humanities into
‘STEM”

11. Helen and Newton Harrison
Steina and Woody Vasulka

12. ,
•From the individual “genius”
•to hybrid ‘genius’ teams
• Re think the concept of the
“genius’
how to train for transdisciplinary
collaborations
•Bridging Cultures
•Over planetary distances

13. Change Our Metaphors
from the Tree of Knowledge to the Ecology of Knowledge

14. AND NOW
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•Lets get the our networks of
networks to work !

15. ARTECA.MIT.EDU
A New Leonardos Collaboration Platform
Leonardo gift exchange culture
IF YOU HAVE PUBLISHED IN LEONARDO, SERVED AS A
REVIEWER OR EDITORIAL BOARD GET FREE ACCESS

16. ARTECA a ‘GATED COMMONS”
To avoid the TRAGEDY OF THE
INTERNET

18. ARTECA WHERE THE HYBRIDS WILL BREED
and become Amphibians !

19. AND NOW
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• CO-DESIGN LEONARDO VIA OUR
DELPHI COLLABORATION
https://www.leonardo.info/project-
delphi

20. Contact Us
• CONTACT NINA CZEGLEDY
• or
• www.leonardo.info (english)
• www.olats.org (french)
• info@leonardo.info