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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Mathematics film-festival in October in Berkeley
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:01:06 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85516333
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Date: Not supplied
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All through October, Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute is
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hosting Cinemath, a mathematics film festival:
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Permutations and Configurations: A Calculated Cinema
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In this avant-garde subset of Cinemath, we explore films that have been
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constructed using mathematical concepts both simple and complex- geometric
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permutations, musical frameworks, even topography are among the strategies
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that have been employed to compose and sequence film frames. Filmmakers
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such as Oskar Fischinger and Walther Ruttmann created some of the earliest
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avant-garde films by multiplying, dividing, and otherwise transforming
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abstract images- including spirals, rectangles, and circles to produce
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dynamic rhythms and harmonies. Today such visual music and motion graphics
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are the currency of digital graphics. Anthony McCall's film performances
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such as Line Describing a Cone create 3-D geometric shapes into which the
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viewer can literally step. We also explore films by pioneers of
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machine-generated and computer-produced animation (Norman McLaren, James
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and John Whitney, Stan Vanderbeek) as well as works by contemporary
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animators who use the computer to either generate or pattern images (Larry
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Cuba, Paul Glabicki, James Otis). Peter Kubelka, Taka Iimura, and Standish
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Lawder use the frame as the unit with which they create editing patterns,
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while Kurt Kren and Paul Sharits reckon on arithmetic systems to variously
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calculate compositional or editing patterns. Bette Gordon, Hollis Frampton,
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and Bruce Elder figure in algorithms, group theory, and set theory to
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graphically enliven the frame or to structure their films. While no
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mathematical knowledge is required to enjoy these films, we count on you to
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try to calculate the mathematical systems employed!
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Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Jef[3]!_)
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[1] http://www.msri.org/20thanniversary/cinemath.html
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/Adiw2xL5kw8ug
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[3] http://www.acme.com
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