Quote From Samuel Johnson

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

Delineations Between The Aesthetics Of Math And Art

This page is dedicated to collecting ideas that describe the differences in the aesthetics of math and art.*


I would like to invite discourse into the construction of these ideas. Everyone is invited to comment. Making these delineations is not an easy task and I feel the statements may evolve. I will address any comments to these statements.

I feel it is very important to understand the differences in the disciplines of art and math so that we can join them in the most creative, clear and meaningful ways.


Delineation #1:
Mathematical truths are discovered Artistic truths are mediated.

.
Delineation#2:
Mathematicians generally agree on what is mathematically correct. Artists generally have no idea what is artistically correct.

.

Delineation#3
Math illuminates the supportive skeletal structure of thought whereas Art illuminates the metaphoric wind, which blows through that structure.

.

Delineation#4
Science reveals the body of GGod and Art reveals GGod's mind -- or is it the converse?

.
Delineation#5
Pure Mathematics has no expression for poetic metaphor however; it does provide us a structure that can be used for it.

.

Delineation#6

In general, the mathematician is not interested in finding truths through nonsense as opposed to the artist who is.

.

Delineation#7

The goal of art is to go beyond language. Mathematics is a language to describe what is beyond us.

.

Delineation#8.
Artists have an insouciant tendency to get lost in their imagination Mathematicians have an attentive tendency to map their imagination

.

Delineation #9
A mathematical theory seems to come in a flash of intuition before the final product is rigorously constructed. An artistic theory seems to come much after the artwork that has been constructed in a flash of intuition.

Delineation #10

Mathematical creations are not unique in the sense that they could be discovered by anyone.
Artistic creations are uniquely invented by individuals.

Delineation #11
Mathematics, among other things, is a language.
Art, among other things, uses language.
.

Delineation#12
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. —Paul Dirac
.

Delineation #13
Art is the expression of culture.
Pure mathematics is independent of culture therefore, cultureless.



Some of these were published earlier in Bridges proceedings 2002 “Sentences on the Aesthetics of Mathematics and Art” page 256

Unlikely 2.0

Dog Dream

This is my first Korean artwork
Dog Dream = Irrationality / Importance

The poem is in the form of an orthogonal space poem


Check out the lastest Unlikely Stories. My latest two pieces are among some wonderful new art/poetry work.

Temptation At The Asymptote

I have a new piece titled “Temptation” (below)

As you look at the graph of Y=1/x (above) you will notice the values become extremely large as you approach the asymptote where the value of x equals zero. At x = zero the y value becomes infinite (at the asymptote).

We have the same situation when we approach temptation. It gets stronger and stronger as we get closer to the object of our temptation and when you touch your temptation you lose the game. In other words the shorter the distance to your object of temptation the closer you get to the asymptote.

The form of the poem is an orthogonal space poem

Temptation 2006 Kaz Maslanka

Bridges Reminder

Flaky Pie

This image came from the following link: Flaky Pie

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Here is my Christmas fractal I constructed for you.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

Lothar Schmitz

Lothar Schmitz’ sculptures reconfigure and question corporate landscape elements using man-made materials. His topiary-like treatment of landscape alludes to the accelerating pace of ecological change and genetic mutation. He draws experience from both his art and physics background. Schmitz is a past Los Angeles Cultural Affairs COLA Individual Artist Grant recipient and a physicist.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTRARY TO THE LAWS OF NATURE
Los Angeles based artists stretch those laws and present some of their own.Mitchell Friedman, Manfred Menz, Lothar Schmitz, Carrie Ungerman and Melinda Smith Altshuler address social, environmental and psychological circumstance in the landscape. Exhibition Dates: December 21, 2006 - January 27, 2007Artist’s Reception: Thursday, December 21, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Sarah Lee Artworks & Projects
2525 Michigan Avenue (Bergamot Station), T1, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Media Contact: Melinda Smith Altshuler, 310 367.5246, msasees@yahoo.com
Gallery: 310 829.4938 E-mail, saralee4@verizon.net
Website: http://www.sarahleeartworks.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10:30 am- 5:30 pmPlease direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above);

Celebrate The Tenth Annual Bridges Conference

Celebrate the Tenth Annual Bridges Conference

BRIDGES DONOSTIA

Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture

***************************************
**** http://www.bridgesmathart.org ****
***************************************

Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
School of Architecture, The University of the Basque Country
San Sebastian (Donostia), Spain

July 24-27, 2007

The conference consists of a 4-day combination of Bridges Conference
activities (July 24, 26, and 27) and an excursion day to Bilbao (July
25). Please visit the Announcement page at the conference website for
a complete announcement.

THE CONFERENCE

The Bridges Conferences, running annually since 1998, bring together
practicing mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians,
writers, computer scientists, sculptors, dancers, weavers, model
builders in a lively atmosphere of exchange and mutual encouragement.

Important components of these conferences, in addition to formal
presentations, include hands-on workshops, gallery displays of visual
art, working sessions with artists who are crossing the
mathematics-arts boundaries, and musical/theatrical events in the
evening.

CALL FOR PAPERS

You are invited to submit either a short (two pages) or long (at most
eight pages) paper that presents new work within the scope of the
Bridges conference. Papers must be submitted as Microsoft Word or PDF
to papers@bridgesmathart.org. The deadline for paper submission is
Febrary 1, 2007. This deadline is firm! If electronic submission is
impossible, please contact Reza Sarhangi to make other arrangements.
Authors will be notified of acceptance on March 25, 2007, and final
papers will be due on April 23.

WORKSHOPS

There will be several teacher workshops for K-12 teachers and educators
at the 2007 Bridges Conference. If you are interested in making a
presentation in one of these workshops you need to submit either a
short (two page) or long (eight page) paper; The deadlines for
submissions of preliminary and final versions are the same as for the
contributed papers.

VISUAL ART EXHIBIT

At the conference, there will be an exhibition room for 2D and 3D
mathematical art, ranging from computer graphics to quilts to
geometrical sculptures. This art exhibit will be curated by Robert
Fathauer. All submitted artwork will undergo a refereeing process.
There is a limit of five submissions per artist. Images of accepted
artworks will also be published on the conference CD.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

There is a registration fee of US $180 that includes a copy of the
Proceedings. Extra proceedings will be available during the conference
with a price of US $50. There is a special discounted rate for
students, artists whose expenses are not otherwise supported, and K-12
teachers. Please visit the Registration page at the conference
website.

ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITIES

Participants have a choice of staying in the campus facilities
(comparable to a three star hotel and within walking distance of the
conference site) or staying in a nearby hotels (a list of hotels is
provided in the Accommodations section of the Bridges website).

MAILING LIST

You have received this message because you are subscribed to a mailing
list for Bridges-related announcements. If you would like to manage
your subscription, please visit the mailing list web page at
https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/bridges.

Anyone interested in joining the list may send email to
bridges-join@lists.uwaterloo.ca.

OTHER INQUIRIES

For any other information not available on the web page please
contact: Reza Sarhangi, Department of Mathematics, Towson University,
8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, (410) 704-4922. rsarhangi@towson.edu.

Alligator Cubed

Climax 4 by Mirela Roznoveanu

Presently, Dan Waber has some interesting math-poetry related images on his Blog that I would like to draw to attention. There is an interesting series of works by Mirela Roznoveanu that I would like to note, have verbogeometric properties. Although the pieces are not explicitly mathematical (they do not show equations) they do show graphic ideas in space implicitly related to a Cartesian coordinate system.

Because they are so abstract they can have numerous contexts applied to them pointing to meanings just as numerous. The resultant aesthetic experience is a vector sum of all the contexts applied. Of course this is my personal take on this and I will certainly give you room to express your own viewpoint.

Alligator Cubed by Jeff Crouche

The other piece I want to point out is Jeff Crouche’s “Alligators cubed” This is a perfect example of visual mathematical poem. (a nice one at that)

and thanks to Marko Niemi for keeping me on my toes

Applications For Verbogeometry

Shown above is a three-dimensional verbogeometric polyhedral

Applications for Verbogeometry

Neal Goldman, a mathematician has come up with a single verbogeometric polytope to analyze huge amounts of data. Business week online has recently published an article talking about Goldman’s polytope and you can access this article here. I was proposing someone write a polytope poem in my blog entry on August 14, 2006. Goldman’s polytope is not a poem but it can be viewed as a hyper-dimensional verbogeometric structure.

I would like to present an excerpt from the article to arouse your curiosity:

How do you convert written words into math? Goldman says it takes a combination of algebra and geometry. Imagine an object floating in space that has an edge for every known scrap of information. It's called a polytope and it has near-infinite dimensions, almost impossible to conjure up in our earthbound minds. It contains every topic written about in the press. And every article that Inform processes becomes a single line within it. Each line has a series of relationships. A single article on Bordeaux wine, for example, turns up in the polytope near France, agriculture, wine, even alcoholism. In each case, Inform's algorithm calculates the relevance of one article to the next by measuring the angle between the two lines.

Here is the link to the original article from business week online

Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

I would like to spotlight a new Journal on Mathematics and Art. Edited by Professor Gary R. Greenfield from the University of Richmond in Virginia … I will keep you posted when the first issue comes out.

Upcoming Show in Chicago

For over twenty-five years, PHSColograms, the integration of photography,holography, sculpture, and computer graphics, have created a post-canvas three-dimensional medium that has expanded the visual imagery of the work of a variety of scientists, mathematicians, engineers, architects, and artists.





Paradox. The vessel is a metaphor of our human existence, the body symbolized as a box or bowl is the vessel for the soul. The paradox between the need to belong and the need for individuality; attraction and repulsion; the inside and the outside; materiel expansion and contraction.

Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology
35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616

Exhibition hours: Monday - Thursday: 12 - 6 pm, Friday: 12 - 5 pm
Saturday: 8:30 am - 5 pm, Sunday: 2 - 6 pm

Bridges London Conference Proceedings

I just received my Bridges 2006 Conference Proceedings today! It is full of wonderful papers for which some of them I plan to review. I recommend you going down to your local bookstore and ordering it! ISBN 0-9665201-7-3

Happy Halloween!

New Design For My Main Website

I have redesigned my main website with an attempt to make the navigation easier. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Multiple Universe Show Opening Today

“Multiple Universes” show opening today 2 pm to 5 pm … If you are in southern California come join the fun. Above is the map to the show

Allen L Roland -- EQUATION FOR LOVE AND WORLD PEACE2

I would like to thank the young lady by the name of Tifinie who sent me the link to a ‘myspace.com’ account which had a copy the following essay posted. I am always interested in anyone expressing mathematical poetry. Here is a link to the original source of her information.

The following essay is by Allen L Roland a psychotherapist and political activist who can be found at allenroland.com. Dr. Roland’s essay is a perfect example of mathematical poetry in his metaphorical use illuminating his philosophy. I went to his website and found much of his spiritual and socio-political views to be similar to mine although he is much more aggressive than I.

His poem reminds me of a poem I had done a poem using this same equation. I haven’t published it on my blog because I haven’t made an electronic version of it yet. Maybe this will motivate me to post it later just to contrast this poem and show how the same equation can be used for many vastly different metaphors.

--Kaz

E=mc² / A NEW MATHEMATICAL EQUATION FOR LOVE AND WORLD PEACE

Since we now know that the particles of light ( photons )
are subject to another force ~ and I would argue that that force is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness ( The Unified Field ) which exists beyond time and space and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite ~ it's time to add another dimension to Einstein's famous equation ~
E=mc².

E=mc² in Einsteinian terms means that the energy contained in matter is equal to its mass multiplied by the velocity of light squared.

Unfortunately, man, in his limited consciousness, has used this equation to create nuclear bombs and the means to completely destroy mankind.

But we now have growing scientific evidence that light is not the one constant of the Universe and may very well be a condition of state within a greater constant.

David Adam, science correspondent for the Guardian, in an April 11th article entitled Why Einstein may have got it wrong , reports some startling findings as physicists gather in England to celebrate Einstein's work;

"Astronomers will tell experts gathering at Warwick University to celebrate the anniversary of the great man's "miracle year" that the speed of light - Einstein's unchanging yardstick that underpins his special theory of relativity - might be slowing down. Michael Murphy, of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, said: "We are claiming something extraordinary here. The findings suggest there is a more fundamental theory of the way that light and matter interact; and that special relativity, at its foundation, is actually wrong."

The Bose/ Einstein Condensate established that photons, and now even atoms have a tendency to unite and dance in perfect unison.
Einstein was in a quandry about this phenomenon so he dismissed this obvious attraction of photons as not only spooky but evidently a " tendency to want to travel together " ~ and Einstein later died never realizing he had found his elusive Unified Field.

For, as I have written before, it was Einstein's consciousness that kept him from grasping that he had indeed discovered the Universal primal urge to unite that exists from atoms to human beings ~ and that even galaxies are subject to its universal pull.

As such, this psychic field of love and urge to unite deepest within us cannot be observed through the most powerful electron microscope nor through the lens of the largest telescope, for it is an energy which must be surrendered to and experienced before it can be perceived through the consciousness of the observer.

So now, let us breath fire into Einstein's most famous mathematical equation E=mc² and apply it to a Unified field of love and soul consciousness which could lead us instead to our ultimate fulfillment as human beings;

E = Love ~ The ultimate totalization of human energy ( The Unified Field )

M = Man, the most complex and conscious form of matter that we know.

c²= Consciousness squared.

Thus, the energy of conscious unconditional love, which is deepest within all living matter, is equal to man times his consciousness squared.

British physicist, Steven Hawking, regarded by many as today's successor to Einstein, wrote that there ought to be something special and simple about a theory of everything .

And what could be more special and simple than love.

Finally, at this critical moment for mankind ~ it is imperative that we now recognize that love, not light, is the one constant of the Universe.

ONLY LOVE HEALS

Allen L Roland

The Energy To Break My Heart

Unfortunately to see it you must click here


This poem uses the physics equation for energy E = Fd Energy is also called work "W"

Energy (or work) is the force applied to an object multiplied by distance that object travels
If we pull force out of the context of the sentence above and look at what defines force we will find that Newton’s second law states Force is equal to the mass of an object multiplied by the acceleration the object is experiencing. Now if we look at acceleration we find that acceleration is the change in velocity per the change in time. In our energy equation we are multiplying the F times the distance the object is traveling. The way we calculate distances is with the distance formula. The poem above uses the distance formula in a nine dimensional space where every verbogeometrical axis is described in the poem underneath the radical.

Optical Illusion Contest

Here is something unrelated to mathematical poetry but interesting none the less. I received this information from my vision science list today. These are the results from the best optical illusion contest of 2006 --- If you are an interested vision scientist, they are now calling for submission to the 2007 contest.

Check out the winners of 2006 here
Go to this page then click on TOP 10 finalists