Here are some shots of the opening at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. July 13, 2019
Show curator Jesse Russell Brooks and his daughter Maggie
Show curator Jesse Russell Brooks and Oceanside Museum of Art curator Vallo Riberto
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art director Rex Bruce and Maria Turner
Writer/Gallery owner Mat Gleason and Artist Tiffany Trenda
Artist Tiffany Trenda
A visual poem by Bill Barminski
Artwork by Daniel Leighton
Daniel and Steve Leighton
Photographer Karen Turner
Artist Victor Acevedo
Artist/Gallery owner Toru Nakatani
I was honored to give a lecture to provide tools to help understand the mathematical visual poems presented in the show. The lecture is in two 30 minute segments in which the first video gives some general tools about the mechanics of metaphor and how it functions in mathematical visual poetry. The video culminates in how those tools work to access the piece, "Newton's Third Law In Karmic Warfare". Please use the web version of this blog to see the videos Click on web version below
The second video presents the last part of the lecture providing the tools to access the piece titled, "Congenital Wisdom"
I am really excited and honored to be a part of the second annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium - The symposium takes place in Los Angeles, New York City, and Moscow. Most of the Symposium will be centered around film, yet, there will also be a Visual Poetry show at the Los Angeles Center for digital art. I Have two pieces of my work in that show: "Newton Second Law in Karmic Warfare" and "Congenital Wisdom"
In addition, I will be giving a lecture and workshop on Mathematical Visual Poetry at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (Downtown Los Angeles). The purpose is to provide tools to access mathematical visual poetry and methods to construct it - I will supply times for this soon. The opening for the upcoming show is July 13th so come on out if you are in Los Angeles.I will be sharing this event with some extremely talented people for which some will be presenting lectures at "The Little Theatre" in Santa Monica. So there will be a lot to experience.Check out what is happening here at this link
I will be showing: Newton's Third Law in "Karmic Warfare" and "Congenital Wisdom"
I am happy to have Golden Fear showing in the group show @ The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art.
Golden Fear is a mathematical Visual Poem that incorporates the continued fraction describing the Golden Ratio. Furthermore, it metaphorically maps the concept of fear into the unit measure (Replaces 1 with Fear)
The following is a script of a chat Between Victor and Kaz had about this image:
Victor said:
One of my students added:
So two corollaries: 1) man equals his wife 2) man over his wife (or the other way around) equals one.
Kaz said:
These are great discussions. What happens when man divided by woman equals a variable? What would that variable be called? Please take that to your students - I would love to hear their response.
Victor said:
We agree on an equality level
Kaz said:
Man over his wife would equal one only if the value of the man is the same as the value of the woman - that works fine as a math poem, however, I think it is more interesting to leave it open. What happens when the value of the woman is more than the value of the man?
Or what happens when the value of the man is greater than the value of the woman? I would like to say that I like the poster you present here - your equation is a translation of the first statement - but a math translation for the second statement is also interesting: "Woman x man = The value of the marriage"
Victor said:
After sleeping on these questions, I like my first take on this the best.
I am truly honored to have the American Mathematical Society ask to use one of my mathematical poems for their 2020 Calendar. I was assigned April 23rd
I am pleased to be a part of "Prism" a new show in Osaka Japan @ The Contemporary Art Gallery Zone. I will be showing a piece titled "10,000 Dharmas Return ..." A special thank you and shout out to the Venerable Hyon Gak Sunim who helped in retitling this piece. Also happy to have my Los Angeles buddy Brian Tucker in the show with me.
Not to forget a big thank you to Toru Nakatani for curating the show.
Below is "10,000 Dharmas Return"
Below is a show poster from the Prism show @ The Contemporary Art Gallery in Osaka
Afghanistan has a horrible history of not only bands of marauders trying to control this land but, empires trying to control it as well. The piece was inspired by an Afghanistan general who said that his country is the graveyard of empires. Even today it is in political turmoil with militants trying to seize control of this vast mountainous area. This is a proportional poem that addresses the imperial struggles of control and the futility of such a quest.
In the vernacular, the poem can be read many ways including the following: "The value of Afghanistan is to the value of Hope as the value of The Graveyard is to the value of an Empire. Or the Value of Afghanistan is to the value of a graveyard as the value of hope is to the value of an Empire.
Kaz Maslanka Lecture and workshop on Mathematical Visual Poetry August 3, 1:00PM @ The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
