AIELLO WORKSHOP: June 5-10, Studio Aiello, 3563 Walnut St., Denver
Workshop Mentors: George Hart, Helaman Ferguson, and Charles Wooldridge.

SCIENTIFIC/ARTISTIC ORGANIZERS
Michele Emmer, Anthony Phillips,
Carla Farsi, Kristi Graham, James
Johnson, Andrew May

DIGITAL ART EXHIBIT ORGANIZER
Anna Ursyn

THE 2005 SPECIAL YEAR
The "2005 CU Special Year in Art and Mathematics"
main sponsors were the Department of
Art and Art History, Mathematics, and the UMC Gallery of
the University of Colorado at Boulder. The
Special Year focused on the exploration of the relationship
between art and mathematics with an accent on the visual arts.
The Special Year enriched the experience of art and mathematics for
students and the community by presenting those subjects in a new, exciting
way that created new meaning. It helped build a University-Town
partnership where everybody benefited greatly from the planned
activities.

THE CONFERENCE
The conference "Art and Math= X," held June 2-5, 2005, at the University of
Colorado in Boulder encompassed a broad range of fields as they relate to
art, mathematics and/or computer technology, including the exploration
of the following themes: visualization and computer generated art,
pattern and symmetry, geometry in quilting and artistic handicrafts,
mathematics of knots and other 3-D objects. Conference participants
shared information and discussed common interests, allowing new ideas
and partnerships to emerge that can enrich interdisciplinary research and
education.

THE PEOPLE
The program for the conference was comprised of a combination of invited
and contributed presentations.

Key-note invited presenters included:
Bill Casselman, Helaman Ferguson, Miller
Puckette, Michele Emmer, Anthony Phillips, Dismas Rotta
and Charles Wooldridge, Carlo Sequin, Celestino Soddu, Richard Taylor, and
Anna Ursyn.


BILL CASSELMAN. Mathematician, University of
British Columbia. He does research on
representation theory and automorphic forms
(principally Langlands' conjectures).
In recent years he has also taken up teaching and using
computer graphics in applications to mathematical exposition.
He is currently Graphics Editor of the NOTICES
of the American Mathematical Society, and
a founding member of the advisory committee of the mathematics Arxiv.
His book `Mathematical Illustrations,'
a practical manual on how to use PostScript in producing
mathematical graphics, is published by Cambridge University Press.

MICHELE EMMER. Mathematician, University of Rome, Italy. Author of the
books 'The Visual Mind I and II.' among several other publications.
World-renown Escher expert. Also the director of many
beautiful mathematical 'teaching movies' and of the world-distributed
'The Fantastic World of Escher.'

HELAMAN FERGUSON. Mathematician and Sculptor. "Ferguson... fully
possesses and has cultivated his ability to express his mathematical
conceptions as sculpture. He has discovered the common ground of
mathematics and art upon which he has placed his own creativity. --Richard
Waller, Director of the Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond,
Virginia. Books: Gold Ink and Ozzie Award winning book by Claire Ferguson,
HELAMAN FERGUSON: Mathematics in Stone and Bronze, Meridian Creative
Group, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1994;

ANTHONY PHILLIPS. Mathematician, State University of New York at Stony
Brook. His research focuses on Geometry and Topology and their
applications to Mathematical Physics. Author of "The topology of Roman
mosaic mazes, Leonardo 23 (1992) 321-329," and of "Meander mazes on
polysphericons, in The Visual Mind II (Michele Emmer, ed.)."

MILLER PUCKETTE. Musician, University of California, San Diego.
Miller Puckette obtained a Ph. D. in Mathematics from Harvard (1986).
Puckette was a member of MIT's Media Lab from its inception until 1987,
and then a researcher at IRCAM (l'Institut de Recherche et de Coordination
Musique/Acoustique). There he wrote the Max program for MacIntosh
computers. The IRCAM real-time development team has since re-implemented
and extended this software under the name jMax.
Puckette is now Associate Director of the Center for Research in Computing
and the Arts (CRCA). He is currently working on a new real-time software
system for live musical and multimedia performances called Pure Data ("Pd"),
in collaboration with many other artists/researchers/programmers
worldwide. Since 1997 Puckette has also been part of the Global Visual Music project
with Mark Danks, Rand Steiger, and Vibeke Sorensen, which has been
generously supported by a grant from the Intel Research Council.

DISMAS ROTTA and CHARLES WOOLDRIDGE. Artists. Partaking of this conference
is symbolic to each of our art endeavors. It models the idea that a confluence is not a destination but more the
alchemy of time that produces many types of dialogues. Concepts
surrounding relationships created by plains, lines, colors, edges and
values that become a visual doorway to greater questions about where and
how all mediums confluence. These types of dialogues are not limited to
any one form or medium of expression but they must exist as a product of
a cusp or an intersection of divergent thoughts, a product from the
center of life.

CARLO SEQUIN.  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/
Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley.
He has been working on geometrical design problems and on CAD tools for the last 30 years.
While at Bell Labs in the 1970's he workded on the development of CCD image sensors.
At Berkeley in the 1980's he worked on the first RISC chips and on layout tools for integrated circuits.
Later he played a crucial role in the design of Soda Hall, the new home of the CS division.
In the 1990's he started to collaborate with sculptors of abstract geometrical forms
and introduced CAD tools into this application domain. Since 1997 he has been an active
participant as well as a co-organizer of several art-math conferences, often illustrating
his talks with many models made on rapid prototyping machines.

CELESTINO SODDU  http://www.generativeart.com
He is a professor of Architectural Design, Environmental Design and
Technology at Politecnico di Milano University. He is the founder and
director of the Generative Design Lab which explores
design of  natural and artificial environments. He used his generative
software in designing the evolution of some town environments. He designed
original software also in the field of representation, and in the field of
3D creative interpretation of 2D artwork. In 2002  he was funded from the
European Community for enlarging the activity of his Generative Design Lab
with other Generative Design Labs in Europe (Kassel and Eindhoven) and in
China (Shanghai and Tianjin) He has presented his design researches and
projects in International Conferences, Exhibitions,  and  workshops in
Italy and throughout the world.

RICHARD TAYLOR. Physicist, U. of Oregon. Author of the Scientific American
article 'Order in Pollock's Chaos.' Richard Taylor's
investigation of fractal dimension in the visual arts was also
featured in an ABC documentary
(Australia) that will be shown at the conference.

ANNA URSYN. Visual Arts, University of Northern Colorado. Painter and
Digital Artist. Products of the integration of art, technology, sciences
and cognitive sciences. Her artwork have been a part of the SIGGRAPH Art
Shows over 10 times.


ADDITIONAL EVENTS
In addition to our fantastic speakers, we held the following
conference events

The Reception (June 1, 2005)
Bring your art work with you to the conference opening reception!
Mingle with the crowd on June 1 while feasting on cheese, crackers, and
drinks.

The Excursion (June 3, 2005)
There was an excursion scheduled on the afternoon of Friday June 3
to visit some local art exhibits, Denver's First Friday
exciting art scene, and some local tourist attractions.
Dine in Denver on your own!

The Musical Event and the Conference Dinner (June 4, 2005)
Andrew May presented a Boulder Public Library
June 4 Concert in the later afternoon. He is the creator of the innovative
music series "Pendulum" and the title of his concert
is "Mathematics Made Music." (Open to the general public)
Also featured the exciting opening reception of the "WomenManArtMath"
Naropa Lincoln Gallery Show, 2130 Arapahoe Ave.
The conference dinner followed.

June 5 (afternoon) Aiello workshop started up with a barbecue.
In addition we scheduled the Opening Reception for the Boulder Public Library
Quilt Show!

 OTHER EXHIBITS
 (additional details on our Special Year Activity page)
 Boulder Public Library Quilt Exhibit
 Core New Art Space Exhibit
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