Thursday, December 01, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Connie Tettenborn's New Website
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:13 PM 1 comments
Labels: Connie Tettenborn
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Catalog Page For The Rhythm Of Structure
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:00 PM 3 comments
Labels: John Sims, Rhythm of Structure
Saturday, October 22, 2011
The Celebrity
The piece is titled "The Celebrity"
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 1:21 AM 0 comments
Labels: Celebrity, Polyaesthetics
Friday, September 30, 2011
Don't Think About This
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 1:54 AM 0 comments
Labels: Buddhism, proportional poems, Seon, similar triangles poems, Zen
Monday, August 22, 2011
The New Culture
This is a most significant time in human history where cultural identity is rapidly moving from geographic locations to physically disparate cadres bound by beliefs and passions.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 10:31 PM 0 comments
Labels: Culture, Polyaesthetics
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Polyaesthetic Mapping
This may be one of the most important things that I have ever done - This is the culmination of ten years of thinking about the aesthetics of math/science and art. I have been working on this project to show how one can map any aesthetic experience into a clear concise system.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:44 PM 2 comments
Labels: Polyaesthetic mapping, Polyaesthetics, science and art
Art + Science at the Escondido Municipal Art Gallery
ART + SCIENCE @ Escondido Municipal Art Gallery
August 9 thru Sept. 30, 2011 Join us at the intersection of Art and Science. This two month exhibition allows the collection of data as well as encouraging conversation about the technologies we use everyday. This exhibition is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the County of San Diego, Pam Slater-Price 3rd Dist. Supervisor
If you are in the area please come to the opening Reception: Sat. Sept. 10, 5:30 - 8:30pm
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:31 PM 1 comments
Labels: Bronowski Art and Science Forum, Escondido Municipal Art Gallery
Bridges Coimbra Portugal
The Bridges conference on mathematical connections in art music and science just finished in Coimbra Portugal. (July 2011) I am happy to been a part of the show where my piece singularity was displayed. There was a lot of beautiful work there and you can see the show at this link.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 9:11 PM 0 comments
Labels: Bridges, proportional poems, similar triangle poems, singularity
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Kaz at SCRIPT
Here is some of my work at SCRIPT Literature's last frontiers.™
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 5:35 PM 0 comments
Labels: script
Monday, May 30, 2011
Mathematical Prose
Quote:
"Another way we might think about potential literature is via an analogy with potential and kinetic energy. If potential energy is stored in an object, then we might say that potential literature is embedded within a language. In the first case, the field of gravity would determine an object’s potential energy; in the case of literature, the field of memory would determine a work’s potentiality. Pushing the analogy further, we can compare the conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy to the conversion of potential literature into real texts. In physics, that conversion is expressed through motion, in literature it is expressed through two related ludic activities, both of them realized at the level of the letter: the crafts of writing and reading with volition."
The quote speaks primarily of Oulipo however I think it can be said of many forms of experimental writing. While I am happy that Ouilpo has so much interest, I am a bit envious due to be believing that there could be a lot more experimentation with "Substitution in Mathematical Poetry" as well. While both are forms of experimental writing the approach language very differently even though I see both being rooted in formal science.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 9:06 PM 8 comments
Labels: collaborative substitution poem, John Sims, Mathematical substitution, Ouilpo
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
LitWorld In Celebration Of Poetry Month 2011
LitWorld invites you to add your voice to the Global Poem for Change at http://litworld.org/poem in celebration of Poetry Month 2011. Help our words soar around the world! Writer Naomi Shihab Nye has started off the poem with the first line: I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere. What comes next?
I contributed see below
Here is my contribution to the poem:
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:21 AM 2 comments
Labels: LitWorld, National Poetry Month, orthogonal space poem
Friday, April 22, 2011
14 Holidays Every Math Major Must Know
14 Holidays Every Math Major Must Know -click here
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:57 PM 0 comments
Labels: math jokes
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The difference between Art and Science
Many of you know how I have been working on describing the differences between art and math - In the last few months it has become more and more solidified in my mind what the difference is - They have many things in common but it is the following statement that underscores their main difference.
When it comes to art one must know something of its culture to "get inside it" I purpose that when artists claim that art is universal they are really pointing at a scientific facet that is embedded in the cultural expression. Art history is full of examples of cultural expressions of pointing at social science archetypes.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 10:39 PM 5 comments
Labels: Math and Art, math art moment
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Truth in Art
Truth in art is not accepted on aesthetics grounds but accepted on psychological and philosophical grounds. Yet, that is not to say that the aesthetics of truth is not beautiful.
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 11:04 PM 1 comments
Labels: Truth
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
David Zwirner presents Proofs and Refutations
Although I am surprised that Benar Venet was left out of this show; there is a new show at David Zwirner in NYC addressing math and art - check out the link here
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 12:22 AM 0 comments
Labels: David Zwirner, Math and Art
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Top 50 Blogs Award
I am happy to report that this Blog just received a new award as one of the top 50 blogs from Online Academic Educators THANKS!
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 1:25 AM 2 comments
Labels: Top 50 Academic Educators
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Tao Of Campbell
Here is a polyaesthetic proportional poem titled "The Tao Of Campbell"
To understand how proportional poems work click here
Dreams are to personal myths as myth is to cultural dream.
Here is a detail of the image:
Posted by Kaz Maslanka at 10:08 PM 3 comments
Labels: Joseph Campbell, proportional poems, similar triangles poems