The “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest
A Ph.D. thesis in any science can be overwhelmingly esoteric and technical. This makes for ripe material for interpretive dance. The “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest awards cash prizes for the best videos of people’s dances representing their Ph.D. thesis research.
Read MoreThe Artist is a Mathematician
Carla Farsi is a mathematician AND artist, and her career seems to be a constant dialogue and dialectic between the two, rather than a simple collaboration. She points out the deep similarities between art and mathematics from the point of view of the practitioner: “Something that is logical, that makes a mathematical theorem, also makes some kind of a visual statement about structure and...
Read MoreHistory of Computers and Art
Bell Labs in the early 1960s was where art and computer science were colliding enthusiastically. A. Michael Noll was pursuing 2D and 3D graphics; he and Edward E. Zajac, Frank Sinden, and Kenneth C. Knowlton were pioneering computer animation; Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce were using early computers to create music. In 1965 Noll along with two other pioneers within the field of early...
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