Folie à deux | Folie adieu

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Helen Frank (Oupeinpo) 2024

Complément et substitution : emprisonnés dans un tableau

Image1: l’ensemble universel. (Si A = les tableaux). 

Image 2: A’ , ou le complément de A. (Si les portraits sont un sous-ensemble de A). 

Image 3: une substitution des têtes des porteurs par les têtes du portrait du rangée. 

Image 4: un substitution ultérieure - deux têtes des porteurs reviennent à la place des portraits qu’ils portent.

Complement and substitution: imprisoned in a painting

Image1: the universal set. (If A = paintings).

Image 2: A’ , or the complement of A. (If the portraits are a subset of A). 

Image 3: a substitution of the heads of the picture bearers with the heads of the portraits, relative to their row.

Image 4: a further substitution - two heads of the picture bearers return in place of the portraits they carry.

Compléments sous contraintes / complements under constraints - an Ou-x-po collective exhibition

 

explanation to follow

The left hand of St. Jerome

 

privileges part two

 

Illustration of Compliment in set theory 

There have been a series of conferences between the various OuXpO groups on the notion of set theory, compliment, and intersection. The question arose on how to illustrate the notion of compliment, so here is my take. 

Compliment is everything other than the thing. Or as Wikipedia states: The compliment of a set A, are the elements not in A

The notation as stated alongside of the images: 

A\B is everything that is not A

B\A is everything that is not B

quasi constraint

Alfred Jarry

For fun, I have been making drawings that appear to have been made according to a constraint, alas no. The foremost consideration here, is of the aesthetic and the method is without the expected mathematical rigour. Simply cut and rearrange, however it does pay tribute to an OuPeinPo constraint, namely the Taquinoïde (or as we know it in England, the shuffle puzzle) by Jacques Carleman.

the privileges of being an amateur

 

The privileges of being an amateur means that I can appropriate mathematical systems, notions, etc for my own purpose. But it is more than that of course. Here, I decided to test the four colour theorem against poetry, which resulted in this visual exploration. 

More of this sort of work is on the graph theory page. 

Upcoming exhibition with the OuPeinPo

Draft flyer for the upcoming OuPeinPo exhibition. It was held in London in October, and will be travelling to Paris for a second showing in April. The dates are still to be finalised, but the vernissage is on April 6th. Santé!

 

Finally updated my news & bio page

 What was I doing for two years?

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:

telling in full, lancaster

I am delighted to announce that I will be exhibiting a book work in Telling in Full, at Lancaster University. I write as if my piece is a major feature, however it is very small and the content is minimalist, the headline act of Telling in Full is PJ Harvey and Paul Mudoon. Just to be a tiny part of this line up is very exciting for me, a long time fan of PJH.