UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, April 2003

Week 7

A: Midterm

Covers the math of weeks 1-5

B: Sue and Karl

How do patterns emerge and disappear from seeming disorder and how do artists and scientists explore these processes ? Suzan Friedland will discuss how ideas developed in collaboration with her husband, physicist Karl Young, have facilitated the exploration of dynamic patterns in her art. She will describe how working with linen, procion dyes, textile paints, sumi ink, adobe, and acrylics have allowed her to capture emerging surface patterns. As a prelude to the talk Karl will set the tone with a piece on the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), currently one of his primary means of exploring the emergence of pattern.

Suzan Friedland has won multiple awards and international recognition as a mixed media artist.

Karl Young is a physicist currently doing research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and is a long time student of the shakuhachi.