Form in art, toys and games

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Workshop theme

This workshop’s theme is more open in its scope. Mathematicians and scientists working on the physical aspects of art, on the art-making processes, and on the physics of toys— whether those made for entertainment or designed from the start to serve pedagogical purposes—are working individually, “on the side,” or in small groups disconnected from one another. One of the purposes of this workshop, therefore, is to establish links between researchers pursuing such diversions and perhaps begin forming a community. The theme of this workshop encompasses both the emergence of form in art, including the mathematical and physical aspects of artistic processes and techniques, and the properties and role of form in finished artworks. These issues are at the interface between science and art and the goal is to shed light on the artists’ techniques and their implications for the artworks and, potentially, for art history and art appreciation. A somewhat separate but related theme concerns the dynamics of “artful” toys and devices.

Timetable

Tuesday 28th November 2017
09:00 to 09:20	Registration	No Room Required
09:20 to 09:30	Welcome from David Abrahams (INI Director)	No Room Required
09:30 to 10:10	Michael Berry University of Bristol Magic mirrors and magic windows	Room 1
10:10 to 10:50	Denis Weaire Trinity College Dublin Artful foams: in memoriam Cyril Stanley Smith	Room 1
10:50 to 11:10	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:10 to 11:50	Aubrey Jaffer Digilant Physics and mathematics of marbling	Room 1
11:50 to 12:30	Allan McRobie University of Cambridge Catastrophe theory and art	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:10	Roberto Zenit Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Hydrodynamic instabilties and modern artistic painting	Room 1
14:10 to 14:50	Andrzej Herczynski Boston College Paul Klee notebooks: form and mathematics	Room 1
14:50 to 15:15	Jane Wang Cornell University Music of falling paper	Room 1
15:15 to 15:30	Jane Wang Cornell University Music of falling paper – performance in the foyer	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:40	Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge Paper mosaics: an exploration of tiling’s through origami	Room 1
16:40 to 17:20	Tomohiro Tachi University of Tokyo Computational Origami Design	Room 1
17:20 to 18:20	Welcome Wine Reception at INI	No Room Required

Wednesday 29th November 2017
09:00 to 09:40	Jean-Marc Chomaz CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Art & Science, the big trail	Room 1
09:40 to 10:20	Mimi Koehl University of California, Berkeley Art in aid of science	Room 1
10:20 to 11:00	Stephen Morris University of Toronto Art, outreach, and pattern formation	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:10	Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge Mathematical approaches for virtual art restoration	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 13:45	Mella Shaw Artists’ Session: In pursuit of tipping point	Room 1
13:45 to 14:00	Mark Francis None / Other Artists' Session: Mark Francis	Room 1
14:00 to 14:15	Emma Rodgers Artists' Session: Emma Rodgers	Room 1
14:15 to 14:30	Henry Jabbour Artists' Session: The Human Form - In Search of the Universal	Room 1
14:30 to 14:45	Nedyalka Panova Artists' Session: On the Border of Consciousness	Room 1
14:45 to 15:00	Manoel Veiga Artists' Session: How science inspired my work	Room 1
15:00 to 15:15	Ulyana Gumeniuk-Parker Artists' Session: Perception of form. Lessons form art history	Room 1
15:15 to 15:30	Melissa Murray Artists' Session: Material and Metaphor	Room 1
15:30 to 15:45	Paul Friedlander Artists' Session: Serendipity & the wave	Room 1
15:45 to 17:00	Exhibition opening and viewing (wine reception)	No Room Required

Thursday 30th November 2017
09:30 to 10:10	Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge The beaver ball: a chaotic rolling robot	Room 1
10:10 to 10:50	Daniel Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology “Fun”-damental physics: robophysical models for General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics	Room 1
10:50 to 11:10	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:10 to 11:50	Alain Goriely University of Oxford Playing with magnetic chains: from self-buckling to self-assembly	Room 1
11:50 to 12:30	Pierre Degond Imperial College London Collective dynamics of bristlebots	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:10	Yuli D Chashechkin Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences Self-propelled wedge	Room 1
14:10 to 14:50	Patrick Weidman University of Colorado On the terminal motion of sliding/spinning discs	Room 1
14:50 to 15:30	L Mahadevan Harvard University Geometry and probability in perception and action	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:30	Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay An Introduction to the Mechanics of the Lasso	Room 1
16:30 to 17:10	Raymond Penner Vancouver Island University Physics of Sports	Room 1
17:10 to 17:50	Christophe Clanet École Polytechnique Forms in Olympic Games	Room 1
19:30 to 22:00	Formal Dinner at Murray Edwards College	No Room Required

Friday 1st December 2017
09:30 to 17:00	Outreach Day: Form & Deformation in Art, Toys, and Games	Room 1

Organisers

Andrzej Herczynski Boston College
Roberto Zenit Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Speakers

Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge
Michael Berry
Yuli D Chashechkin Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Jean-Marc Chomaz CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Christophe Clanet École Polytechnique
Pierre Degond Imperial College London
Mark Francis None / Other
Paul Friedlander
Daniel Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
Alain Goriely University of Oxford
Ulyana Gumeniuk-Parker
Andrzej Herczynski Boston College
Henry Jabbour
Aubrey Jaffer Digilant
Mimi Koehl University of California, Berkeley
L Mahadevan Harvard University
Allan McRobie University of Cambridge
Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge
Stephen Morris University of Toronto
Melissa Murray
Nedyalka Panova
Raymond Penner Vancouver Island University
Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
Emma Rodgers
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge
Mella Shaw
Tomohiro Tachi University of Tokyo
Manoel Veiga
Jane Wang Cornell University
Denis Weaire Trinity College Dublin
Patrick Weidman University of Colorado
Roberto Zenit Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

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Participants

Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge
Martine Ben Amar CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris; Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Michael Berry University of Bristol
Arezki Boudaoud ENS - Lyon
Martins Bruveris Brunel University
Christopher Budd University of Bath
Mike Cates University of Cambridge
Yuli D Chashechkin Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Jean-Marc Chomaz CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Christophe Clanet École Polytechnique
Yves Couder Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes; Université Paris 7 - Denis-Diderot
Pierre Degond Imperial College London
Christophe Eloy École centrale de Marseille; Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre
Mark Francis None / Other
Paul Friedlander
Daniel Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Alain Goriely University of Oxford
Ulyana Gumeniuk-Parker
Andrzej Herczynski Boston College
Darryl Holm Imperial College London
Henry Jabbour
Aubrey Jaffer Digilant
Mimi Koehl University of California, Berkeley
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
Maciej Lisicki University of Cambridge
L Mahadevan Harvard University
Stephen Marsland Victoria University of Wellington
Allan McRobie University of Cambridge
Sara Merino-Aceituno Imperial College London
Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge
Stephen Morris University of Toronto
Melissa Murray
Nedyalka Panova
Raymond Penner Vancouver Island University
Jacques Prost Institut Curie; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
Emma Rodgers
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge
Mella Shaw
Tomohiro Tachi University of Tokyo
Tadashi Tokieda University of Cambridge
Manoel Veiga
Jane Wang Cornell University
Denis Weaire Trinity College Dublin
Patrick Weidman University of Colorado
Roberto Zenit Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)