Secrets of Creation (Urbanomic / Redactions) - Softcover

Mackay, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957529511 ISBN 13: 9780957529519

Publisher: Urbanomic Media Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

An artist and a mathematician debate, find common ground, and jointly create an assemblage that is neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model. A week-long residency project brought together artist Conrad Shawcross and mathematician Matthew Watkins to reflect on the ways in which artists use (or misuse) scientific and mathematical concepts. Secrets of Creation documents this fascinating meeting of worlds, presenting both the week's discussions and debates, and the project upon which Shawcross and Watkins subsequently embarked. Navigating a route that tacked between formalism and natural language, experts and laymen, quantity and quality, poetics and mechanics, Shawcross and Watkins gradually forged a shared discourse in which the concerns of the artist and those of the mathematician could find a common ground. The project ended with their joint creation of an assemblage that was neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model.

About this title

About the Author

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Urbanomic Media Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0957529511
• ISBN 13: 9780957529519
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80