Kaz Maslanka to Show Again at LACDA

I am happy to be part of another show at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

I will be showing "What is the Radius of Your Compassion"

What Is The Radius Of Your Compassion by Kaz Maslanka

This piece uses the formula for calculating the volume of a sphere. 

For the metaphor, I am mapping the concept of compassion into the radius of the equation.

Kaz Maslanka at LACDA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

I am happy to be a part of the show at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. I will be showing "Newton's Third Law In Karmic Warfare"

Meet Kazmier Maslanka - Mathematical Visual Poet

I am honored to have SDVoyager Interview me and publish it here: CLICK HERE

Variation by Larry Lesser

Oceanside Museum Of Art Accepts Newton's Third Law In Karmic Warfare Into The Upcoming Auction

I am very honored to have my mathematical visual poem, "Newton's Third Law in Karmic Warfare" accepted into the Oceanside Museum of Art's auction. This event will be saturday, April 7th, 6:00-9:30 pm. General Admission $50, VIP $125

If you are interested in understanding more about this piece, I published a paper that will give you the tools to access it. You can download it here by clicking here.

Kaz Maslanka Electronic Music 1979-1988

I would like to thank Joel Sanderson for his work in archiving the work on this blogpost.

Here is an archive of some of my electronic music from 1979-1983


During the day that I met John Cage, a video was taken to document the event at the University of Kansas in Lawrence Kansas (Home of William S. Burroughs) In this video at seconds 28 to 38 you can see me reading statements from Cages work. It is hard for me to express how hard I connected to John Cage in that period of my life. His "Indeterminacy" record (1959) was a profound influence on my thinking. In this video you can see Cage and Burroughs chatting.

Here is a link to that video

Here is a 1988 recording of me and 3 of my friends doing an electronic improve at Kirby's Beer Store.
"An evening of experimental music performed by a temporary gathering of musicians at Kirby's Beerstore in Wichita, Kansas. It features Kevin Smith (keyboards), Kaz Maslanka (keyboards), Brian Curtis (keyboards) and John Eberly (saxophone)

Here is the link

Autobiography

Every aesthetic production is autobiographical in the sense that one exposes a piece of one’s soul with every expression.  

Kaz Maslanka

Gender Identity by Larry Lesser

Congenital Wisdom on view at the Joint Mathematics Conference in San Diego

I have been a bit apathetic in keeping everyone up to the latest shows. Last August "Congenital Wisdom" was show at the Bridges show at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. It is a mathematical visual poem which incorporates a mathematical paradigm poem. The paradigm that I am using is Newtons equation for the law of gravity. In a paradigm poem we map concepts into the existing equation to create conceptual metaphors across the cognitive domains.

The piece points to the idea that the legendary events involving two different apples were both creative events. One being Newton's apple that he saw falling out of the tree and the other being the apple from the knowledge of good and evil. In the poem you will see that the force of creativity is acting on both apples. You will notice that the distance between the apples is described by mapping concepts across a five dimensional Pythagorean Theorem.

More importantly to note is that this piece is on view at the Joint Mathematics conference in San Diego California right now. It will be up until this Saturday. 

Cantor's Ternary Palindrome by Larry Lesser

Forebear Square by Lawrence Lesser

Visual Poetry by Larry Lesser

MEANings by Larry Lesser

Mathematics Professor Lawrence Lesser, Ph.D. provides us with a couple of mathematical visual poems:

These were part of a paper:
Lesser, L.M.(2011) "Making Statistics Memorable: New Mnemonics and Motivations," in Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings, Section on Statistical Education, 1118- 1124.

Click here for the paper          http://www.statlit.org/pdf/2011Lesser-JSM.pdf

Maholy Nagy 1922

Culture

Aesthetic expressions are the literally the boundaries of culture.

Kaz Maslanka at Crafton Hills College

I was honored to be a part of the Parallels:Medicine+Art show at Crafton Hills College. On March 28th, I gave a lecture on mathematical visual poetry as well as having a couple of pieces in the show. Here are a few photos from the event.

Here are the two pieces that were displayed in the show. "Newtons Third Law In Karmic Warfare" 

and "Singularity at Vulture Peak"

The Life of a Mistake

Mistakes when repeated by others become culture.