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Friends of Tom Linehan: In conjunction with our exhibition in memory of Tom Linehan, and the people connected to him, we are pleased to announce TATE MODERN PRESENTS ELECTRIC DREAMS – ART AND TECHNOLOGY BEFORE THE INTERNET.

By Mark Westall • https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/electric-dreams Featured artistsRebecca Allen; Marina Apollonio; Manuel Barbadillo; Alberto Biasi; Vladimir Bona?i?; Davide Boriani; Martha Boto; Pol Bury; Harold Cohen; Analivia Cordeiro; Waldemar Cordeiro; Carlos Cruz-Diez; Charles Csuri; Computer Technique Group; Dadamaino; Atul Desai; Lucia Di Luciano; Ivan Dryer and Elsa Garmire; E.A.T.; Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss; Herbert W. Franke; […]

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Piero Scaruffi proposes: Forget AI Anxiety, Roger F. Malina proposes: Do Something New by Accident (DSNA)

Blog Reply by Roger F Malina July 16 2024 Perhaps we should focus on the ability of humans to enable and make sense ofserendipity, rather than on the vague notions of creativity and imagination. This blog expands on Piero Scaruffi’s proposition with a) the advocacy of learning CSS and b) training CSS or how to

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E-Surgence:  Reconnecting with People and Ideas that Matter Nahum as a Case Study: Enter the Black Hole (Canvas)

On Roger’s mind July 12, 2024 Colleagues I just started reconnecting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_(artist). He is also known Nahum Mantra and Nahum Romero Zamora. See the email exchange at the end of this blog. I just turned 74 years old and have discovered that I am e-connected with tens of thousands of friends and colleagues; this

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Fred Turner’s response to: Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy?

Roger F Malina July 3 2024 Published on this blog: Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy July 3 2024 I love the wild connections in the ants piece. But I think we need some sharper distinctions. E. O. Wilson, whom I knew, was a leading figure in the recognition of eusociality in

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Did you know Ants Exhibit Compassion, Empathy and Sympathy

Roger F Malina July 3 2024 Compassion: I am working with high school teacher Antonia Moran , https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/2024/04/04/compassion-as-medicine-literature-as-the-catalyst/ , and Johnathan Tsou https://profiles.utdallas.edu/jonathan.tsou . Antonia Moran is leading a funding proposal in our UTDallas ArtSciLab , https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/ , on Compassion Science. She is focusing on the role of literature and narratives. She will be applying

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CiberVillage here we KOM :

June 14, 2024, Roger F Malina Apophenia is a skill, but I have PAREIDOLIA. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pareidolia. I am obsessed with my friends about creating a cibervillage ( NOT a cyber village or a smart village or …).  Yes, our first village fair was in Bogota, Colombia: https://festivaldelaimagen.com/en/portfolio-item/ciber-villages-2/  We think, as do others, that large human groups

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A Hybrid Professional’s duty to Migrant Ancestors

Roger F. Malina, ArtSciLab, Bass School, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Upon reading “ A neuroscientist’s duty to Black Ancestors’ by Chandler Wright. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp0690 The concept of desirable migration is deeply embedded in my family history, and a trigger for my first career as a space astrophysicist. My father was Frank. J.

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a strange discovery: A poem in memory of Arthur Davidsen

As of June 17 2024 Blog by Roger F. Malina On the 14th of July 1974 My best friend the late Arthur Davidsen and I Spent a pointless night observing a strange phenomenon  On,  Or in, The sky. All night. Several nights. At the Lick Observatory Above Silicon valley Which had just been named in

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