[Maths-Education] Maths-Art Seminar at LKL, 12 January: 'Mathematics, and the Concrete and Neoconcrete Artistic movements in Brazil' by Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri

[Phillip Kent]

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MATHEMATICS, AND THE CONCRETE AND NEOCONCRETE ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS IN BRAZIL
An LKL Maths-Art seminar 
by Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri
Thursday 12th January 2012, 6.00 - 7.30pm
London Knowledge Lab, WC1N 3QS

This talk will focus on some relations between the philosophical concept
of mathematics developed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders
Peirce (1839-1914), as applied to the Arts, and the approach to Art
practice taken by the Concrete and Neoconcrete artists in São Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro during the 1950s-70s.

The work of several artists from this period will be introduced, such as
the poetry of Augusto and Haroldo de Campos and Décio Pignatari –
pioneers of Peircian studies in Brazil –, the Computer Art of Waldemar
Cordeiro and Giorgio Moscatti, from São Paulo, and Lygia Clark, Lygia
Pape** and Hélio Oiticica, from Rio de Janeiro, with a focus on their
participative Art.
(**An exhibition of this artist's work is currently showing at the 
Serpentine Gallery in London.)

FABRIZIO AUGUSTO POLTRONIERI is a Brazilian artist and mathematician.
His PhD thesis at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo was
titled “An analysis of the role of chance in computer art: Reflections
on the relationship between aesthetic and informational systems of
communication”. Currently, Poltronieri is undertaking research in a
postdoctoral fellowship at the Royal College of Art, with funding from
CAPES in Brazil.


TIME: 6.00 to 7.30pm
PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS
[Travel information & maps at: http://bit.ly/LKL-MathsArt-venue ]

NEXT SEMINAR: 9 February, speaker TBA.

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appreciated for planning purposes.

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Dr Phillip Kent, London Knowledge Lab
p.kent at ioe.ac.uk   phillip.kent at gmail.com 
www.phillipkent.net    m: 07950 952034
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Dr Phillip Kent, London, UK
mathematics  education  technology  research
phillip.kent at gmail.com  mobile: 07950 952034
www.phillipkent.net
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"Man's rush to the n'th floor is a neck-and-neck race 
 between plumbing and abstraction" - Rem Koolhaas