[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Michele Emmer book signing party - MSRI, Berkeley, CA

[Leonardo/ISAST]

LEONARDO/ISAST AND THE MIT PRESS ANNOUNCE 
A book signing party to celebrate the release of: 
The Visual Mind II, edited by Michele Emmer

Join Michele Emmer and Leonardo/ISAST
6 June 2005, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 2850 Telegraph Avenue, 6th
floor Berkeley, CA 94705, U.S.A.
(For directions, see http://www.msri.org/tempsite/tempdirections)

The Visual Mind II
The MIT Press
A Leonardo Book
ISBN: 0-262-05076-5
712 pp., 400 illus

Mathematical forms rendered visually can give aesthetic pleasure; certain
works of art --Max Bill's Moebius band sculpture, for example -- can seem to
be mathematics made visible. This collection of essays by artists and
mathematicians continues the discussion of the connections between art and
mathematics begun in the widely read first volume of The Visual Mind in
1993.

Mathematicians throughout history have created shapes, forms, and
relationships, and some of these can be expressed visually. Computer
technology allows us to visualize mathematical forms and relationships in
new detail using, among other techniques, 3D modeling and animation. The
Visual Mind proposes to compare the visual ideas of artists and
mathematicians -- not to collect abstract thoughts on a general theme, but
to allow one point of view to encounter another. The contributors, who
include art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson and filmmaker Peter
Greenaway, examine mathematics and aesthetics; geometry and art; mathematics
and art; geometry, computer graphics, and art; and visualization and cinema.
They discuss such topics as aesthetics for computers, the Guggenheim Museum
in Bilbao, cubism and relativity in twentieth-century art, the aesthetic
value of optimal geometry, and mathematics and cinema.

See http://lbs.mit.edu for more information about The Visual Mind II and
about the other books in the Leonardo Book Series.

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all Leonardo Book Series titles and also receive a number of other
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