Roger Malina
professor of ATECat university of texas at dallas
Roger Malina is a physicist, astronomer and Executive Editor of the Leonardo publications at MIT Press. With dual appointments as Professor of Arts and Technology and Professor of Physics at UT Dallas, his work focuses on connections among the natural sciences and arts, design and humanities.
Malina is the former Director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP) in Marseille and was a member of its observational cosmology group which collaborated on investigations regarding the nature of dark matter and dark energy. He has been a member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, IMERA), that contributes to trans-disciplinarity between the sciences and the arts and places emphasis on the human dimensions of the sciences.
With a specialty in space instrumentation, Malina was the principal investigator for the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite at the University of California, Berkeley. He also founded the Leonardo organizations in San Francisco and Paris, whose missions are to promote work that explores the intersection of the arts, sciences, and new technologies.
Malina received an Honorary Doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain, holds a BS in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Artists and Scientists in Times of War: A Renewed Call for Papers
What Is the Evidence that Art-Science-Technology Collaboration Is a Good Thing?
Introduction: The Aesthetic Status of Technological Art
Executive Summary of SEAD Exemplars: Evidence of the Value of Transdisciplinary Projects Report for the National Academies
Inventing Experience: Experiments in New Media at Interval Research
Network Theory: Art, Science and Technology in Cultural Context
Alt.Art-Sci: We Need New Ways of Linking Arts and Sciences
In Praise of Hybridity: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Frank J. Malina
La science n'est pas l'art by Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond. Editions Hermann, Paris, France, 2010. 119 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-27056-6945-4
What Is Science? by Sundar Sarukkai, National Book Trust, India, New Delhi, 2012. 225 pp. Paper. ISBN: 978-81-237-6367-5
Introduction: The Spirit and Power of Water: A Leonardo Virtual Africa Workshop
DataRemix: Designing the Datamade
Texts by Jean-Bernard Condat Retracted From Leonardo Because of Plagiarism
Une Archeologie des Media, Exhibition, Seconde Nature