Yeonsu Sue Kim

Jeffery Lam

Carmelia Chiang

Alexandra Singer-Bieder

Inhaesio Zha, cellular automata, cultural evolutionary systems

“Cellular Automata” and its capability for generating a vast range of non-uniform patterns and tessellation based on discrete numerical code.

Peter Pearce, Playground experiments with Saddle Surface Geometry

“The saddle figure must be generated from an existing network of lines. It is a problem of partitioning some fundamental volumetric region or set of regions with saddle faces to form a space filling figure or a set of space filling figures. We shall refer to this fundamental spatial region [or set of regions] as the interstitial domain of the network. The interstitial domain is formed by spanning with a minimal surface the group of polygonal circuits that a nonintersecting set will combine to from closed polyhedra.”

Peter Pearce, describing Saddle Surface Geometry

David Fred, “Lucy and Dolly” different color photograms of soap bubbles

Fried creates large gaseous vesicles in a totally darkened room using infrared goggles. At the decisive moment before they fall, he photograms them onto grainless color sheet-film by triggering a colored point-light source above. He captures the shadows of these fleeting objects to make an image on a photosensitive support using only light and the light sensitive material. No camera or lens is used. What we see in his enlarged C-prints are the latent shadows and spectral aberrations of these transparent forms caused by the membrane’s curved surface. The object itself becomes the lens, subtly bending the light and altering its own image. In varying chromatic tones, David Fried depicts the fundamental economy of interdependent –networked systems in both nature and social behavior by staying completely outside the realm of biology.