Roger Malina

DAVINCINEERING: ArtSciLab Steps forward into the Past

Roger F. Malina with Jason Brogden, Jeff Price, Ben Wu, Tak Tarbo and….. May 26 2024 At Jason Brogden’s instigation, a team in the UTDallas is working on reconstructing Leonardo Da Vinci’s workshop in our own location, physical and virtual. This is not an original idea/project, searching on line reveals numerous previous attempts. They will […]

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Announcing the ArtSciLab Initiative on E-sports to drive desirable cultural changes.

A collaboration between Kofi Latzoo and Roger F Malina May 24 2024 Roger Malina, The e-sports industries are emerging as key contributors to the emergence of improvement of cultures across the earth. Sports are one of oldest human professions and will continue to drive segments of the human population to address hopes and fears around

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Anecdotal Histories and Disremembering: Larry Polansky a friend and colleague

And one my  ‘best enemies’ ………………………….who just died. Search online for the name Larry Polansky and you will find semi-factual information beginning with Frog Peak Music. I began working with Larry and his wife Jody Diamond back in the 1980s. David Rosenboom was part of our gang. Leonardo Journal had been over focused on the

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Artificial Wisdom of the Mind: Read the Ending: AI will never be Wise ?

Roger F. Malina, May 19 2024 I just attended our first cybervillage meeting in Bogota Colombia ( https://dis-publishing.com/2024/04/15/ciber-villages/ ) The first meeting of the emerging cybervillage occurred a few days ago in Bogota Colombia. Two desirable outcomes were: Some of the ideas we discussed were documented years ago in: Cultures and Organizations: Software of the

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Friends of Friends Paradox in our Cybervillage’s: Don’t always trust the paid teachers

5/14/2024 Context I just returned from Colombia where. with my friends, we had organised a workshop for Canadians and Columbians together. We called in a Ciber-Village. We had a very auto-poetic time. “” included friends Tommy Ayala, Riccardo Da Farra and recent friend Tomas Londono and other friends of our friends. We are incentivised to

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Obituary of Tom Linehan

Colleagues Tom Linehan has recently died. https://news.utdallas.edu/faculty-staff/dr-tom-linehan-computer-animation-visionary-joins-utd/ He is the only reason our ArtSciLab exists today. I was due to retire at the University of Aix-Marseille 15 years ago. I had known Tom for decades, meeting at the SIGGRAPH meetings among others. He joined the Editorial Board of Leonardo Journal at MIT Press where I

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