Graduate School Public Lectures
Playing with Art and Science: Origami, Glass and Mathematics
Tues. Nov. 15, 2016 7:30 p.m.
Kane Hall 120, UW Campus
Martin Demaine
Artist-in-Residence, MIT
Erik Demaine
Professor of Computer Science, MIT
Due to the high level of interest in this sold-out event, empty seats will be released to standby guests at exactly 7:15 p.m. Please give yourself plenty of time to get to Kane Hall and find a seat.
Acclaimed father-son duo Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine use sculpture to visualize and understand unsolved problems in science, and their scientific abilities to inspire new art forms. Learn more about their artistic forays in origami sculptures, and the real world applications of curved creases.
Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine are a father-son math-art team. Martin started the first private hot glass studio in Canada and has been called the father of Canadian glass. Since 2005, Martin Demaine has been an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erik is also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a professor in computer science. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. In these capacities, Martin and Erik work together in paper, glass and other material. They use their exploration in sculpture to help visualize and understand unsolved problems in science, and their scientific abilities to inspire new art forms. Their artistic work includes curved origami sculptures in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian. Their scientific work includes over 60 published joint papers, including several about combining mathematics and art. They recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) for exploring folding of other materials such as hot glass.
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