concrete poem / snowball emoji

Snowball is usually a poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer...

snowball emoji poem - objects

snowball emoji poem - food

snowball emoji poem - animals

En Vient aux Maths

This animated portrait of Henri Poincare is on show, March until July, at the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, as part of an Oupeinpo exhibition.
The animation has an underlying structure of a Petersen Graph, which is one of my current interests. Other works exhibited are similarly, differently, mathematical.
The vernissage featured readings by members of the Oulipo. Other events are expected, but not yet confirmed.

crossings

This is only about 3 seconds, so keep pressing play. It shows a cruciform mobius strip. Two intersecting mobius strips. This one orientates itself by having a hole in the base, so I'm not sure how useful it is in the study of topology; without the hole, maybe it has some interest. I have tried to ask a mathematician, but I don't necessarily have le mots juste. The crossing over of languages, the mathematician's and the accidental amateur's is an enjoyable exploration. Having a tangible object helps.

This mobius tells the story of Achilles and the tortoise. The tortoise slips through the hole and defeats Achilles.

el Greco in motion, work in progress

A painting in motion; a work in progress.

Based on this work by Berlin University professors on Digonfree arrangement minimising the number of triangles in Pseudocircles

Please excuse the poor transitions, a smooth version will be made. Soon.

marilyn vs the graph isomorphism problem

10 of Marilyn's features have been animated according to the 10 points of a Petersen Graph.

The Graph Isomorphism problem asks whether two graphs are the same graph in disguise when there is a one-to-one correspondence between their nodes... (read the full version of my paraphrasing here). I have applied the same question parameters of the Graph Isomorphism problem to an artwork and animated the 10 elements of Marilyn's face - is this Marilyn the same Marilyn in disguise?


Animation also available in blue...

24 April 2018, if you're in Berlin...

Mathematics and Art. Where Constraints Meet25. April - 30. July 2018

24. April 2018, 15:00 - 17:00

• Artist talk @ Institut français Berlin, with the members of the Oupeinpo
• Maison de France, Kurfurstendamm 211, 10719 Berlin

24. April 2018, 18:00 - 21:00

• Reception @ TU Mathematics Library
•  Welcome talk by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Stannat, Executive Director of the Institute of Mathematics, TU Berlin and Dr. Ulrike Hillemann-Delaney, Director of International Affairs, TU Berlin 
• Introduction to the Oupeinpo by Brian R. Smith
• Technische Universität Berlin Mathematische Fachbibliothek, st. des 17 Juni 136

calendar view of the concurrent words project, 2018

The collection is ongoing. 

Words - seen and hear at the same time.

whenever this happens, I write the word (s) as a diary entry. Each day's entry becomes a google image search. And these are the results for January and February 2018. 

have I told you bout this before? emoji translation of memento mori paintings

I have accidentally deleted the text for this post. So the blog title, alludes to an explanation. There was an explanation. But I deleted it. Doesn't really need a description though does it?

oupeinpo - transgressions

if you're in Paris...

 

An exhibition of new Oupeinpo work, produced in collaboration - 13 June at l'Autre Livre bookshop in Paris.

Prints and publication are available to purchase, details how:

collaborative working - trees

  

I have been asked to write a piece for inclusion in a book about trees and language - a visual interpretation of language. Numerous ideas have branched out from the initial request, some of which are shown here, but as the book is pre-publication, I will leave out most details. 

Do I get bonus points for puns?

 

rorschach pattern making

This started with print outs of two Rorschach tests, collaged together and made into a repeat pattern. And has inspired a new project on Instagram

 

henri poincare

MEME

"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."

“If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.”

A font made from a portrait of Henri Poincare. This process, like the Umberto Eco version is ongoing, in fact work in progress

                                                                                                          

vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia

Lust conquered shame; audacity, fear; madness, reason




Vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia. (Cicero, Pro Cluentio, VI.15)

In rhetoric, zeugma (i/ˈzuːɡmə/ or /ˈzjuːɡmə/; from the Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα, zeûgma, lit. "a yoking together"[1]) and syllepsis (/sɪˈlɛpsɪs/; from the Ancient Greek σύλληψις, sullēpsis, lit. "a taking together"[2]) are figures of speech in which one single phrase or word joins different parts of a sentence.[3]

eco font

A font made from a portrait of Umberto Eco. This process is ongoing, in fact work in progress

femme au mirroir

In the same way* as I made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, this is Femme au Mirroir. 

* Recreate a Picasso painting using only the items I have at home (which can include my own self)

To then add another layer of process, I used Deepart to combine two image styles and input my photo collage with the Picasso painting with the two following results:

les demoiselles

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

You know what has happened here; probably don't need to say anything more, I'll just leave it there.

To then add another layer of process, I used Deepart to combine two image styles and input my photo collage with the Picasso painting with the two following results:

work in progress

Updates for the bio page

There's exhibition news (featuring the above images), music video news, and getting publications into national collection's news, and... nope, you'll just have to go to the news / bio page

google image (poem, maybe)

Another month of images, the project continues. This is October and these are the secondary words, ie. the google search descriptions of the images:

Happy October Shanna Hatfield

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For all the gas you buy in a given year, chances are good you won't be allowed to claim a credit on your tax return for the federal fuel taxes you paid.
Super hero boy thank you notecard
Keep calm because FUCK YOU that’s why
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OM3 font try out

Writing is drawing for me. I can not write. I draw words. This is a font I have made using my go-to drawing constraint OM3

Example text