6th to 9th July 2020
Maths Meets Arts
at the Leicester Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Leicester
A four-day festival of talks, activities and workshops sharing recent and ongoing collaborations between artists and mathematicians.
Schedule
6th July Maths & Games
7:30 - 7:45
Introduction
Paul Monks, Head of the College of Science and Engineering
Henrietta O'Connor, Head of the College of Social Science, Arts & Humanities
7:45 - 8:15
Tilting
Mateus Domingos, Hipolito Treffinger
Selected readings introducing the Tilting project, and a demonstration of a board game based on principles used within representation theory.
You can view the full Tilting story and essay at https://www.mateusdomingos.com/tilting/tilting.html.
8:15 - 8:35
Maths Garden
Jenny Hibberd, Katrin Leschke
A walk-through of our virtual garden space. The team will discuss their roles, process, challenges in the creation and future adventures.
You can download the Maths Garden (windows only) or play a scaled down web version (chrome, firefox) at https://mathsmeetsart.itch.io/maths-garden.
8:35 - 8:45
Q&A
Tilting x Maths Garden
In conversation with Tilting & Maths Garden teams.
7th July Maths & Music
1:15-1:30
Maths & Music: Chapter Zero
Alberto Paganini, Lee Allatson, Wayne Rossman, Jenny Hibberd, Andrew Johnston
In conversation with our evening's artists.
7:30-7:35
Introduction
7:35-8:00
Sounds of Soap Films
Lee Allatson, Wayne Rossman, Alberto Paganini
Discussion/presentation about surfaces, vibrations & sound (with videos & numerical simulations).
8:00-8:10
Q&A
Lee Allatson, Wayne Rossman, Alberto Paganini
Q&A with audience. Post questions via Twitch chat.
8:10-8:25
Sounds of Surface
Jenny Hibberd, Andrew Johnston
Intro and video of immersive installation with live comments and subsequent talk.
8:25-8:30
Q&A
Jenny Hibberd, Andrew Johnston
Q&A with audience. Post questions via Twitch chat.
8th July Maths & Dance
1:15-1:30
The Arts of the Finite Topology Conjecture
Chloe Aligianni
Film screening with live introduction.
Watch the film on Youtube here.
An article on our Maths Meets Arts project in the LMS newsletter. You can learn more details about the Finite Topology Conjecture there!
7:30-8:30
f:Countless Deformations - an open rehearsal
Chloe Aligianni, Lee Allatson, Balandino Di Donato, Dr Katrin Leschke
Join us for a maths based performance bringing together dance, music & motion sensing digital technology. A birds eye view into an open virtual rehearsal & the opportunity to interact with the artists.
9th July Maths & Creativity
1:15-1:30
Maths & Creativity: a teaser
Maths & Creativity Lunchtime session ticket
7:30-7:35
Introduction
7:35-9:35
A series of short talks from mathematicians with arts intermezzos
7:35- 8:00 Matthias Weber: Wrapped Packages: The Power of Hidden Symmetries
infinite items: catenoid
8:05- 8:30 Joseph Cho: Shape generation via discrete p-holomorphic functions.
infinite items: Costa
8:35- 9:00 Gudrun Szewieczek: Proofs without words?!
infinite items: conjecture
9:10- 9:35 Tim Hoffmann: tba
Short films: Infinite Items
Lee Allatson
An excerpt from Lee's 2019 Infinity Core presentation, 'Infinite items' provides brief intermezzos to meditate on the boundless nature of artistic and scientific possibility.
9:35-10:00
Q&A
Chloe Aligianni, Lee Allatson, Joseph Cho, Mateus Domingos, Andrew Johnston, Jenny Hibberd, Tim Hoffmann, Gudrun Szewieczek, Wayne Rossman, Matthias Weber
Q&A with audience, mathematicians and artists. Post questions via Twitch chat or Facebook event.
Participating Mathematicians & Artists
Chloe Aligianni
Chloe Aligianni is a Greek choreographer, artist and facilitator with an interest in creating outside conventional spaces and contexts as well as cross disciplinary collaboration. She is a Chisenhale Dance Space artist and supported by the studio Wayne McGregor FreeSpaceProgramme. Her work is funded by public and private organisations.
Lee Allatson
Lee Allatson is a musician based in Leicester, UK. His practice involves composition and improvisation using acoustic instruments, found or designed objects, electronics and field recordings. Projects and commissions have included solo and ensemble performances, as well as live and recorded responses to dance, film and static objects.
Balandino Di Donato
Balandino Di Donato is a digital artist, researcher and lecturer in Creative Computing at the University of Leicester. During his PhD at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (BCU), he explored the design of embodied interactions with audiovisual processes during music performance. His current research focuses on Digital Arts and Interaction Design.
Mateus Domingos is an artist and writer working in Leicester, UK. His work has included games, 3d printing, fictional alphabets, maps and filmmaking. His work explores narrative, place, text and language. He also runs a meetup for Leicester-based artists called FTP, and regular workshops for children at Phoenix.
Jenny Hibberd
Poet by surprise Jenny “hibword” Hibberd is a lateral thinker, artist, designer and musician who freelances for charities and organisations across the midlands. Her work spans immersive installation art, performance, graphic design and outreach workshop delivery engaging diverse vulnerable groups with lyric writing, music, arts and crafts.
Photo credit: Matt Coles
Katrin Leschke
Katrin is a reader in Differential Geometry at the University of Leicester. Her interests are in the theory of surfaces which are given by variational problems. In her work she uses computer experiments to gain insights into shapes.
Although not an artist, she still enjoys literature, theatre, movies and music.
Andrew Johnston
Andrew Johnston is a practicing digital artist working and performing in Leicester. He has a undergrad degree in Music Technology and a postgrad in Digital Art. His work uses audio-visual technology coupled with sensors and Arduino boards to realise realtime, interactive installations and standalone work.
A lecturer in mathematics at the University of Leicester, Alberto develops numerical algorithms and software for numerical simulation of natural phenomena. In this Maths meets Arts project he collaborates with Lee Boyd Allatson and Wayne Rossman to develop an artistic and mathematical perspective on the sound of surfaces
Wayne Rossman
Wayne Rossman is a mathematics professor at Kobe University in Japan, specializing in the differential geometry of surfaces.
He enjoys playing music as a hobby, and is always interested in the connections between mathematics and music.
Hipolito Treffinger
Hipolito Treffinger is a postdoc working in abstract algebra and representation theory. He is convinced that anyone is able to enjoy the beauty of mathematics and joined this team to explore this from an artistic perspective.