Creative Disturbance

ArtSciLab Cybersecurity Policy Manual

Policy Overview ArtSciLab's cybersecurity policy manual outlines procedures for protecting lab technology and information assets. It details classifications for information and computer systems, specifying access levels and user responsibilities. The policy addresses various security threats, including insider threats, hackers, and vulnerabilities. It establishes acceptable use guidelines, penalties for violations, and procedures for handling security incidents. The document emphasizes user accountability and proactive security measures to maintain the lab's data integrity and system availability.

About the Episode This is a deep dive discussion of the paper, "Emerging Words that Matter: Data Analytics Creates Meaning", generated using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) (courtesy: https://notebooklm.google.com) This white paper explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to analyze text data, specifically in the context of the concept of "Emergence". NLP allows us to extract meaning, sentiment, and emotions from text, making it possible to understand how people define and discuss emergence further. The research uses word clouds, sentiment analysis, and emotion analysis to uncover patterns and trends, providing a deeper understanding of this complex concept. The expected findings include visual representations and insights into how emergence is understood and how these perceptions have changed over time. Eventually, this will provide us with emergent patterns from various domains such as healthcare, retail, social media etc. Emergent patterns help businesses predict upcoming trends so that they can prepare themselves.  About the Author Priyangka Roy is a Data Analyst and an MS Information Technology Management student at UT Dallas. 

About The Episode This is a discussion about the paper, "Harnessing Soccer Team Dynamics for ArtSciLab Excellence", generated using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) (courtesy: https://notebooklm.google.com). The white paper answers the question: What are the key parallels between soccer team dynamics and research lab operations, and how can those principles be applied to improve the ArtSciLab? This white paper argues that the principles of soccer team dynamics can be applied to improve the functioning of a multidisciplinary research lab, the ArtSciLab. The paper proposes that by adopting the qualities of successful soccer teams, such as teamwork, communication, and adaptability, the ArtSciLab can enhance its productivity, collaboration, and innovation. It outlines specific strategies to achieve this goal, including defining clear roles and responsibilities, implementing effective leadership styles, fostering a culture of continuous training and development, and measuring performance through key performance indicators.   About The Paper Author Collins Mwange is a software developer and an MS Cybersecurity student at UT Dallas who, besides coding and patching vulnerabilities, manages to find time to play semi-pro soccer. 

A discussion between Roger Malina and Thom Kubli

Swiss artist and composer Thom Kubli recounts a trek into the Amazon to record the environs in a conversation spanning the topics of sonic thought, shamanism and the split between nature and the technological intervention of humanity.  About our speaker:  Thom Kubli works as an artist and composer in Berlin. His practice is multidisciplinary, blending elements of composition, sculpture, and conceptual approaches. His installation pieces oscillate between spectacle and contemplation, exploring the social implications of physical space and virtual presence. Kubli often collaborates with scientific institutions like the MIT Media Lab or the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to devise new technologies and materials. His performances and installations have been shown internationally, amongst others at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, Ars Electronica, Linz, Transmediale, Berlin, Eyebeam, NYC, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, FILE, São Paulo, LABoral, Spain, and in numerous art galleries. His composition pieces and experimental radio plays have been widely broadcasted through public radio stations as WDR, DLRK, ORF, SRF, and others.  find out more about Thom at https://thomkubli.net/. 

Evan Acuna discusses new trends in the career landscape and how students can prepare themselves for their jobhunt with Jennifer Lynch, a consultant for the University of Texas at Dallas Career Center. 

Join Roger Malina and Oskar Olsson for a call with Ben Evans to discuss his work with virtual reality museum experiences and the positive aftermaths of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Join CEO of Neuro Rehab VR Veena Somareddy, Evan Acuna and Roger Malina for a discussion on her work merging healthcare and virtual reality in the field of physical rehabilitation.  About our guest:  Veena Somareddy is the CEO of Neuro Rehab VR, a VR healthcare start-up aimed at building virtual reality therapy exercises for rehabilitation. Her accolades include being recognized as a Top Innovator in North Texas, Fast Company's World Changing Ideas honoree, and featured in Forbes and Cosmopolitan. She is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant and one of the 10 start-ups chosen to participate in the first Amazon Healthcare Accelerator. Using her many years of research and development experience in VR and AR she is helping to connect technology and healthcare to enhance patient care and rehabilitation outcomes greatly.

The open-door policy of the lab sparks a conversation between medical student Jabez Abraham and Roger Malina on ethics and discipline.  About our guest: Jabez was originally born in India and moved to the US at a very young age. He is currently pursuing a degree that would allow him to work in the medical field. He loves to share ideas and discuss them with others.

Join the Creative Disturbance team for a Watering Hole, a weekly open-door meeting in the lab for discussion of a wide range of topics related to the arts and sciences.  Guest speakers include Carie S. Tucker King, Antonia Moran, Chris Lee, Eric Fulbright, Kody Neinast, Jennifer Lynch, Veena Somareddy, and Jabez Abraham. 

Oskar Olsson and Eric Fulbright further discuss Eric's interactive art piece Doors of Delusion, which revolves around the themes of grief and sensation.  Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson. 

Join ArtScilab artist in residence Eric Fulbright and astrophysicist Roger Malina for a conversation on Eric's new piece exploring grief and the senses.  Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson.

Join Creative Disturbance with UTD Director of Rhetoric Carie S. Tucker King and playwright George Morgan for a discussion on the evolution of insulin research, current events and the importance of a relationship between creativity and the sciences. 

Artist Olia Fedorova lives and is sheltering in Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv, 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. She shares stories about day to day life during wartime, reflects on how the meaning of her art is changing since the invasion and her views on Russian culture and imperialism.

Elena Subach and Viachelslav talk about the Russian invasion of their country and the impact of the war on their life and practice from the Western edge of Ukraine where they are volunteering to help refugees flee into neighboring Central European countries.

Aida Sulova (KGZ) talks with Janeil Engelstad about her recent exhibition "News From Central Asia," organized for The Jewelry Library in NYC and her practice building communities and planting seeds for social change in Kyrgyzstan and the US.  

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Steven began the session by tying it back to an earlier presentation of his Expanded Diagram Project. One of his aspirations of that still ongoing study is to transcend the overly constrained, largely western-based categories of contemporary art by illuminating specific kinds of creative processes that span a wide range of historical and contemporary world cultures and practices. From there he turned to yet another multi-media project called the Exurban Archipelago Project which focuses on the rapidly expanding networks of distribution/fulfillment centers populating the exurban fringes of so many metropolitan areas around the world. The final portion of the talk focused on his recent exhibitions and current studio activities including his Never the Same Space Twice series of paintings that he plans to contribute to the upcoming SMRN conference and exhibition in Vancouver.Steven began the session by tying it back to an earlier presentation of his Expanded Diagram Project. One of his aspirations of that still ongoing study is to transcend the overly constrained, largely western-based categories of contemporary art by illuminating specific kinds of creative processes that span a wide range of historical and contemporary world cultures and practices. From there he turned to yet another multi-media project called the Exurban Archipelago Project which focuses on the rapidly expanding networks of distribution/fulfillment centers populating the exurban fringes of so many metropolitan areas around the world. The final portion of the talk focused on his recent exhibitions and current studio activities including his Never the Same Space Twice series of paintings that he plans to contribute to the upcoming SMRN conference and exhibition in Vancouver. Carol presented aspects of several recent projects as well as what she is currently working on, related to the study and understanding of Islamic geometric patterns as intersections of art and mathematics. Her contribution to the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam on “Geometry in Art,” consists of sections on plane and solid geometry, geometric constructions and repeat patterns (periodic and quasiperiodic). She considers the use of an algorithmic aesthetic in two-dimensional space, which should be thought of as an innovation. She also addressed issues of solid geometry in three-dimensional space, and the use of projections from two- to three-dimensions. In contrast, her contribution on “Ornament” takes a more historiographic approach, arguing that the study of ornament in Islamic art requires an expanded definition of ornament than that of the Western paradigm in which ornament is ornamental. Both entries for EI3 express a narrative approach to geometry and concern cultural issues of identity and interpretation, as well as aesthetics. She lamented the recent removal of her comprehensive website on Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets (1996), which had been developed under the auspices of The Math Forum (first at Swarthmore College, then Drexel University and most recently the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics). And she sought advice, guidance, and encouragement from SMRN members as to what she might next address in charting a future course for the study of Islamic ornament.

A rising start in European Art, independent curator and art historian Róna Kopeczky talks with MAP's Janeil Engelstad about the importance of caregiving and how that is central to her curation, feminism in the former communist bloc countries, the expanding notion of the print and more.

How would enabling professionals with knowledge in coding transform medical practice in developing countries? Join us with Ayen Kuol and Stephen Lagu as we dive into the landscape of coding technology in practice and explore its relationship & possibilities with the people of South Sudan. We introduce the concept of the 'psychology of coding' , and some of the ways that the cultural gaps--which obstruct the propagation of new technology--can be bridged. At the core of this discussion is a vision for a unified and inclusive Africa.

Janeil Engelstad talks with Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of Land Art Generator about the social impact, politics and aesthetics of renewable energy and the role of art in providing solutions to climate change.

Janeil Engelstad talks with Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of Land Art Generator about the social impact, politics and aesthetics of renewable energy and the role of art in providing solutions to climate change.

Our guest today is Toni Jensen, the author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and indigenous women's lives which is out now from Ballantine Books. Carry was described as “an unsettling account that creeps into your bones” in the New York Times Book Review. She’s previously the author of book, From the Hilltop, a collection of linked stories published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press, as well as essays and stories in journals such as Orion, Catapult and Ecotone. Shannon Schaffer and Thomas Rocha from UT Dallas join the podcast, to speak with Toni Jensen about her work.

We discussed ideas around embodiment, re-embodiment, kimospheres, atmospheres, technology and issues related to the practice of Johannes Birringer as a choreographer, director and professor of performance technologies. His publications have taken up important issues surrounding the body and technologies, theatre, dance, and choreography. Birringer underlines the pivotal moment when he attended a Pina Bausch performance, as a young student, and how it affected and redirected his career.

Jordan Wirfs-Brock is making innovative sonifications for radio. She is working on a PhD in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research explores how voice interaction, sonification, and narrative support people as they learn to listen to data, producing more meaningful and engaging experiences with information. She has studied how people consume news across various devices and transition between offline and online behaviors.

Our guest on this podcast is Jacob Stegenga, the author of Care and Cure and Medical Nihilism. We discuss the effectiveness of medical interventions, the relationship between philosophers and practitioners, how to deal with complexity, the nature of sexual desire, and much more. In this episode:  How do doctors and other medical professionals respond to the argument for medical nihilism? (2:45) — Issues of publication bias and replication crisis: parallels between animal cognition research and medical research (7:00) — Are there examples of “gentle medicine” being used successfully in the health care system? (8:30) — How do the institutional motives and incentives for excessive intervention affect physicians’ behavior? (10:45) — How does an ordinary person know when, or when not, to trust the experts? (14:00) — Differentiating between simple and complex causes of disease (viruses & bacteria, vs. depression or schizophrenia; 17:45) — With complex conditions, could it ever be worth trying interventions that don’t seem to “make sense”? (21:00) — Current research on the philosophy of sexual desire: Is there a nature to sexual desire? What about social and cultural causes? (25:00) — Is sexual desire an individual or social phenomenon? (30:00) — Understanding the sexual desires of others through philosophy, literature and empirical science (34:15) — Current and future projects: formal logic in philosophy of science, and applications in society (37:30)

Michele Hanlon, Associate Dean for the Arts at UT Dallas, discusses how teaching and performance have moved online in spring 2020, highlighting the School of Arts & Humanities Virtual Events in the Arts. In this episode:  How to keep figure-drawing classes going under a shelter-in-place order (1:15) — Using Blackboard Collaborate to conduct a conditioning class in real time, as well as recording sessions for later (4:15) — Working remotely: from dance choreography to music ensembles (6:30) — Recent successful virtual events, including Mikhail Berestnev’s piano recital and a virtual tour of the Light Waves exhibition (10:30) — Advice for artists and collaborators adapting to the current situation (13:30) — Announcing the Faust radio play (14:30)

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities, director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. In this podcast:  The timing of the transition to online learning (1:00) — The importance of engagement, closeness, proximity in humanities education (2:45) — Adapting to the technology of Microsoft Teams, online classes (5:15) — How to connect globally, across other borders and barriers, the importance of diversity (6:45) — After four successful searches, new tenure-track faculty coming to the School of Arts and Humanities (9:00) — Finding opportunity at moments of crisis and change (10:00) — Counteracting the compartmentalized, segregated model of knowledge (11:00) — Students are looking for some way to make different models compatible with one another; to make connections among disciplines (11:45) — Why students from Management or Computer Science are attracted to the arts and humanities (12:30) — Coffee houses as spaces of knowledge: the physician sitting next to the creative writer in Vienna (14:00) — Newest developments at the Ackerman Center: Developing an online MA in Holocaust and Human Rights Education (16:15) — Current project on Central European Jewish travel, from the 1880s to the immediate postwar period, considering the concepts of the flaneur, as well as class, nationality and ethnicity (17:45) — Upcoming project on how the Holocaust evolved dynamically after 1941 (19:00)

Can Quantum Physics help us solve the problems of race and discrimination in our society? This provocation explores science culture and art through the medium of the Spoken Word. Hear the contemplations of a recovering Astronomer; learn of the superposition of exitons of injustice in discriminatory design; the questionings of a quantum lab observer; and the hidden consciousness in man-made systems.   A compilation of the voices of Roger Malina Kylee Hong  Arya Agrawal  Ayen Kuol

Get insight into the, fun, wonder full, explorative, walk in the rain kind of romantic - interdisciplinary class designed and taught by Nomi stone: Ways of Knowing Science and Poetry. Learn of the various processes and experiences that science and Poets have in fusing the arts and sciences.

Join Nomi Stone and Ayen Kuol in discussing the relationships between Knowledge and Power, Science and culture. Contemplate on why we as a society value what we value, and what is truth. Reflect on your poetic vision of the world around you.

Immerse yourself into the journey of a poet and scientist in discovering the joy of Poetry, Science and Poetic science. "What would it be like to be a field worker of the Natural World and the sciences?"  Nomi Stone, Anthropologist, Poet, designer, and teacher of the undergraduate course, Ways of Knowing: Science and Poetry, challenges the beliefs of a compartmentalized and labeled world.

Get entranced by the digital soundscape created by an entanglement of the sounds of elements, cultures, and data from carbon Nanotube Scanning Electron Images. Produced by Ian Clothier, this soundscape features the sounds: -A traditional New Zealand Putorino tane played by Darren Robert Terama Ward -Fire By Dynamicell -Carbon Nanotube SEM -Haley's comet -Comet Swan -Meteor showers. This piece is created as an artistic response to the collaborative study of carbon Nanotube entanglement. Listen to Ian Clothier explain his process of how to entangle carbon.

The very notion of a collaboration tends to get sidelined. Rarely are lessons given on 'how to collaborate'. Yet Collaborations, especially the interdisciplinary kind, remain one of the most challenging ways of working. Get insight into the collaborative process of an interdisciplinary study of Carbon Nanotubes Entanglement- with Ayen Kuol as the artist, Blake Bathman the Poet and Josef Velten the scientist.

Dive into a 3 part poetic landscape that both investigates and celebrates the growth and entanglement of carbon nanotubes. A result of the collaboration between Artist, Poets and scientist. Poems featured are : 'I remember'- By Blake Bathman, featuring video installation by Kylee Hong 'Entangled Dance'- By Ayen Kuol C is for Carbon - by Ayen Kuol

The very notion of a collaboration tends to set sidelined. Rarely are lessons given on 'how to collaborate'. Yet Collaborations, especially the interdisciplinary kind, remain one of the most challenging ways of working. Get insight into the collaborative process of an interdisciplinary study of Carbon Nanotubes Entanglement- with Ayen Kuol as the artist, Blake Bathman the Poet and Josef Velten the scientist.

Join Ayen Kuol and Josef Velten as they reflect on examples in human history, and ponder the question, “Is Culture a Technology?” Can culture be designed? This podcast is intended to incite deeper thinking on the subject.

Our guest on this podcast is Xiangdong Ji, project leader for the PandaX dark matter search collaboration in China's JinPing Deep-Underground Lab in Sichuan, China, and Distinguished University Professor of physics at the University of Maryland. We discuss the history of the search for dark matter, and the beauty and simplicity of physics.

Does modern Science have room to acknowledge and incorporate other disciplines and cultures in its progression and its methods? Join Josef Velten and Ayen Kuol as they discuss the concept of using Art as a method of scientific research.

Are we as scientists understanding the bigger picture of our roles as scientist in our modern world? Are we aware of the full spectrum of our power and implications our work has on the world? Join Josef Velten and Ayen Deng as they discuss their scientific experiences.

On this episode, we talk with Justin Shubow, President of the National Civic Art Society, about modernism and classicism, the profession of architecture and its role in civil society, public monuments in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and much more.  

On this episode, we talk with Justin Shubow, President of the National Civic Art Society, about modernism and classicism, the profession of architecture and its role in civil society, public monuments in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and much more.

Chris Arnade is a writer and photographer, and the author of the book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, which is published by Sentinel.  His work has also been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among many others.  Before that, he worked on Wall Street for 20 years as a trader, with Salomon Brothers and Citigroup, before that, he earned a PhD in Physics from Johns Hopkins, and before that, he grew up in the town of San Antonio, Florida.

Luciano Queiroz (@lucianolqueiroz) e João Silveira (@johngaucho) recebem o querido Gustavo Reinecken (@g_reinecken) do podcast Trabalho de Mesa para conversar sobre a primeira temporada do Papo ArteCiência e o que estamos planejando para segunda. Nosso objetivo é abordar assuntos relacionados a arte-ciência através de entrevistas com pesquisadores brasileiros nesse campo de estudo e entender o que é arte-ciência e como ela está inserida em nossas vidas. O Papo ArteCiência é uma parceira Dragões de Garagem, ArteCiencia Brasil e do espaço de curadoria de conteúdos relacionando arte, ciência e tecnologia do MIT Press e da revista Leonardo, o portal Arteca.

MAP's series of podcasts produced in conjunction with MAP2020: The Further We Roll, the More We Gain that critically examines the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment continues with Artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Aram talks about her projects in support of voting and protests, Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can't and Protest Lending Library and other related topics, such as who in the U.S. can vote and who cannot and why.