Special Interest Group of the MAA on Mathematics and the
Arts
Buzjani’s Rusty Compass Pentagon Reza Sarhangi and Robert
Fathauer JMM 2008
Σ · ArtsNEWSLETTER
MAY 2018 Issue 3
EVENTS
Mathématiques & Art - ESMAMarch 12-23, 2018 Paris,
France
M.C. Escher +April 13-June 9, 2018 DIFFERENTTRAINS Gallery
Decatur, Georgia
The Intersetion of Art + MathApril 26 - June 2, 2018 Schack
ArtCenter Everett, Washington
Leonardo 50 en México - ISASTApril 19, 2018 Universidad
AutnomaMetropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico
Show your Work: Art and MathJune 14, 2017-May 20, 2018 San
JoseMuseum of Art San Jose, California
BRIDGES STOCKHOLM 2018July 25-29, 2018 Tekniska MuseetStockholm,
Sweden
MAA MathFest 2018Aug 1-4, 2018 Denver, Colorado
IMAGINARY Conference 2018Dec 5-8, 2018 Montevideo, Uruguay
MOMATH EventsNational Museum of MathematicsManhattan, New
York
Symmetry Festival 2019 - Interna-tional Symmetry AssociationJuly
24-28, 2019 Center for Art andMedia Karlsruhe, Germany
Message from the Officers
Our aim with the Newsletter is to pro-vide another conduit for
communicationwith our members. We’re always look-ing for help
running SIGMAA-ARTS, inparticular organizing talks at
meetings,overseeing the finances, and organizing alogo contest. No
experience is necessary,just a willingness to try something new.If
you are interested, please contact DougDunham at
[email protected]
NEWS
Report from JMM 2018
Gooseberry/FibonacciSpiral - Frank Farris
Dodecahedral 11-HoleTorus - David Honda
Excentrica -Ekaterina Lukasheva
The Joint Math Meetings this year were held at the SanDiego
Convention center. With geometric figures built intoits
architecture and a view of the water, it was a beautifulplace for
SIGMAA-ARTS annual art exhibit and math & artstalks. The
sessions, under the heading Arts and Mathemat-ics: The Interface,
were offered on Wednesday, Friday, andSaturday. Doug Norton did a
particularly excellent job ofscheduling talks with common themes,
which helped speak-ers and attendees start conversations about
shared interests.The first day had ideas from non-euclidean
geometry, music,quilting, and education. The second day saw dance,
patternsin different cultures, fun and hands-on 3d printing
excursions,origami and iterative art. The last day had new
investigationsin textile arts and complex ideas using technology.
While thefood in the convention center was unfortunately both bad
andexpensive, a wide variety of restaurants were available
withinwalking distance for fun lunch meetings and nights out.
Theannual Knitting Circle was a great meeting of minds andhands
where people brought the projects they were work-ing on and had a
relaxing, enjoyable, and thought-provokingevening together.
The art exhibit was full of great conversations this year.Many
artists stood by their work and explained their ideas,techniques,
and new directions for the future. I think thishelped more people
understand the mathematical depth ofthis beautiful exhibit. We had
several first-timers exhibitingat this show, which was great to
see, including a winner of oneof the art exhibition awards David
Honda, who made a mas-sive, blue, dodecahedral torus with origami
to win the Besttextile, sculpture, or other medium category. The
award forBest photograph, painting, or print went to Frank Farris
forhis elegant designs using a Fibonacci spiral and
gooseberries,and “Excentrica” by Ekaterina Lukasheva received the
Hon-orable Mention for an expertly executed origami tessellation.We
saw the math-art community come together at this con-ference to
make a great show, with artists helping one anotherfix stuff that
was damaged in the mail, mini-lessons and demonstrations,
spontaneoussculptures being built nearby, and discussions between
new and old friends.
In the near future, SIGMAA-ARTS is hoping to make a banner to
hang up at theart exhibit so more people will know the hard work
that we put in to make the artexhibit happen. During the
SIGMAA-ARTS meeting, there was talk of making thelogo contest
happen this year and a call for new blood to help keep
SIGMAA-ARTSgoing. Keep an eye out for announcements for these
opportunities.
This conference had rivers of people walking through hallways
banked by tablesto sit and chat, we could see the influence of the
arts growing with math-art topicsin the Mathemati-Con Events, and
with more people knitting, wearing mathematicalpatterns and
objects, and attending SIGMAA-ARTS talks . Thanks for all of
yourexcellent contributions, and we’re all looking forward to what
you come up with next!
SIGMAA-Arts Website: http://sigmaa.maa.org/arts/ Email list:
[email protected]
Newsletter designed by Teresa Downard
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
New poetry collectionOde to Numbers (AntrimHouse, 2017) by
SarahGlaz (University of Con-necticut)
David Reimann (Albion College) led a fun build-ing activity
during the JMM near the art exhi-bition.
Sarah Marie’s classic holiday ap-ple pie, crust design inspired
byLauren Ko (December 2017).
Rosanna Iembo, mathematician,poet and Sigmaa-Art member hasgot
the Honorable Mention of thewell-deserving citizens by the
Mu-nicipality of Crotone (Italy), thecity of Pythagoras.
Collatz Parity Sequences, orLightning in the Hailstone Num-bers
(Matthew Cliatt, Google)
Undergrad research on Markovchains in jazz music; Dr. ChadMangum
of Niagara University.
Frank Farris in the math art show of theMAA Golden Section at
CSU, East Bay,coordinated by Shirley Yap and VinceMatsko
Compass-and-straightedge constructionof medieval Islamic design,
PrestonNichols, Shawnee St. Univ.
Rhombus Non-Symmetric Pen-rose Tile Quilt. Donna A.
Dietz2015
A physical model of ahelicoid in hyperbolicspace, by Roice
Nelson,www.roice3.org.
60 dodecahedra madefrom cardboard repre-senting all 60
differ-ent rotational symme-tries of the dodecahe-dron (smallest
nontriv-ial finite simple group).Christoph Poeppe
Conference attendees peruse the art ex-hibit at the IN-IL-MI
Trisection Meeting,Valparaiso U.
Temari Permu-ation Ball. De-bra K. Borkovitz,Wheelock
College,Boston, MA. http://debraborkovitz.com
The Cayley table of a random op-eration on [-1,1]. John W.
Snow,The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Everyone in math 106 of fall 2017 designed andmade final Math
and Art project, see the articleBringing math concepts to life
through quiltingSimei Tong, UWEC
”Euclidean Geometry” by R An-derson, student, for an
indepen-dent study with D Hydorn atUMW. A new textbook draft
Mathemat-
ics in Artistic Design: Bringingprojects to life by Bingen,
Cash-man, Hanson, & Tong.
S I G M A A - A R T S
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz/Ode_to_Numbers/index.htmlhttp://www.math.uconn.edu/~glazhttp://www.math.uconn.edu/~glazwww.rosannaiembo.itmailto:
[email protected]:
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