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Today's Topics:
1. micro art science actions ( MASA) or a continuous conundrum,
conimbrum, quonundrum, conuncrum, and quadundrum (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
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continuous conundrum, conimbrum, quonundrum, conuncrum, and quadundrum
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yasminers
I would like to pick up on Salome Cuesta proposal for 'micro-actions' in our
art-science communities of practice, and Diamond Berverly's idea of
a 'continous conundrum ( see below)
After 30 years as executive editor of leonardo, for the first time i am
now deeply engaged as a practitioner in art science collaborations. I
like to joke that astrophysics was so easy ! We all agreed on the
success criteria
and used the same concepts, methods and terminology. Plus we were very
well funded.
Thanks to Guillermo Munoz and colleagues at the University of
Valencia i received a PhD in Art
so I am now an artscience 'postdoc' with a phd in astrophysics and a
phd in art !
As James Leach pointed out in his Leonardo article (Extending
Contexts, Making Possibilities:
An Introduction to Evaluating the ProjectsJames Leach
https://cnrs.academia.edu/JamesLeach )
many many art science collaborations 'fail' in achieving their
original objectives. In our artscilab ( https://artscilab.atec.io/
)we have been arguing that there is a very big step between
inter/multi disciplinary collaborations and 'trans' disciplinary
collaborations which bridge very very different disciplines with very
very different personal and collective success criteria, and very very
different often
contractictory methods, concepts , terminologies- these are in Diamond
Berverly's term 'conundral;- see merriam webster
"The exact origin of conundrum isn't known with certainty. What is
known is that the word has been in use since the early 1600s, and that
it had various spellings, such as conimbrum, quonundrum,conuncrum, and
quadundrum, before the current spelling was finally established
sometime in the mid-17th century. One theory of origin suggests that
the word was coined as a parody of Latin by students at Oxford
University, where it appears to have enjoyed particular popularity in
its "word play" or "pun" sense. While the prevalent sense in this
century is that of the seemingly unanswerable question or problem,
frequently applied to heady dilemmas involving ethics, sociology, or
economics, the word is sometimes so loosely applied to anything
enigmatic as to be synonymous with puzzle or mystery."
One of the strategies we have been trying is "micro-projects" in
cuesta's terminology- we define them as
short duration ( weeks), projects which require no money or cash, only
gift exchange of time
and access to facilities, expertise etc ( the gift exchange vocabulary
comes from James Leach)
in the art sci lab we are approached continuously by 'stem'
professionals who want to collaborate.
Often they have antiquated ideas of what making art involves or
results in. Often they view
art as less primary in the 'tree of knowledge" ( ie in a branch not in
the trunk). Often they have
very different methods , concepts, terminology( we are trying to
develop transdisciplinary apprenticeships as part
of the approach). If a micro-project doesnt succeed, its likely that a
significant project wont in
our experience
I am delighted that a student research in our artscilab , Diamond
Beverly, has proposed:
"how do we go about including diverse voices and fostering
heterogeneous approaches instead unconsciously
excluding people from the conversation and thus creating a continuous
conundrum."
maybe the younger members of yasmin should weigh in, just as
from diamon berverly:I was very intrigued with your post last week
when you emphasized
educational spaces and work shop methodologies. I would like to know
how you define micro-actions. I also find such maker spaces and
hackathons a good step into the future of collaborative educational
space. A question that persists however is how these spaces find their
audience? And by this I mean how do we go about including diverse
voices and fostering heterogeneous approaches instead unconsciously
excluding people from the conversation and thus creating a continuous
conundrum.
so all latin students on yasmin go at it :
" One theory of origin of 'conundrum" suggests that the word was
coined as a parody of Latin by
students at Oxford University, where it appears to have enjoyed
particular popularity in its "word play"
or "pun" sense. While the prevalent sense in this century is that of
the seemingly unanswerable question
or problem, frequently applied to heady dilemmas involving ethics,
sociology, or economics, the word is sometimes so loosely applied to
anything enigmatic as to be synonymous with puzzle or mystery.
or maybe living in a continuous conundrum is a desirable state ?
certainly it is a state
that drives our artscience work
and HAPPY THANKSGIVING in the USA- though i always have misgiving about
giving thanks to our colonial ancestors who decimated the indian
populations !! there must be someone else to thank in our cultures !
Roger is almost in chicago 510-853-2007
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