Week 2: Math + Art

Math + Art

I knew that math and art were closely related prior to consuming this week’s content. However, I was only considering the connection in a traditional since. Keeping things in mind such as the importance of proportions and the value of symmetry to make something look pleasing to the eye. As well as in a tool perspective, different ratios of mixing colors, or different paper thickness. I was only thinking of instances that math can be useful to art.

 

    After engaging with the lectures and especially "The Institute of Figuring" I have learned that art can also help the development of math and science. I was able to read "The Crochet Coral Reef" which speaks of how art exhibits help scientists look at things in more creative and unique ways.

 

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I also enjoyed the Nathan Selikoff article where an orchestral performance articulates the transition through the four dimensions. Again, this is an instance where art is aiding math, the concepts may not be explained in a purely explicate way, but if you already have a basic knowledge of the concepts the piece allows for a new way for it to be expressed and considered.

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I want to choose this performance as my art piece to consider, specifically because of what they decided to do when tasked to represent the fourth dimension. I like that they decided to focus on volume and become terribly busy. They knew that it would be exceedingly difficult to try and convey a fourth dimension which is already hard to imagine regularly. so instead decided to double down on expressing the fact that by nature the fourth dimension is hard to picture.

https://youtu.be/N_d8pMxm8Ns

Sources:

2012 – Concert of the Future, with composer Keith Lay and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. Full Sail University, Orlando, FL.

Four Dimensions - Real-time Audio-visual Performance. (2014, September 05). Retrieved April 10, 2021, from https://nathanselikoff.com/works/four-dimensions

Dance, A. (2021, February 11). Engaging in a creative pursuit can stimulate bold ideas, sharpen your focus and foster patience and perseverance in your research. ART GRAFT: PUTTING AN ‘A’ INTO ‘STEMM’, 590, 351-353.

Weisstein, Eric W. "Mandelbrot Set." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MandelbrotSet.html

Abbott, E. A. (2015). Part 1: Sections 1-5. In Flatland: A romance of many dimensions ; with illustrations by the author, A Square. London: Forgotten Books.