Título: Soap bubbles in art, math and architecture
Conferencista: Michele Emmer
28 de noviembre de 2023
10:00 horas CDMX
Resumen:
Soap bubbles may seem only children’s games, but actually, they have very clear applications in physics, mathematics and architecture among others. Stemming from art, where, in the sixteenth century they were depicted by many major artists, they have sparked the interest of scientists and mathematicians. In particular the works of Joseph Plateau and the form and laws of soap bubbles and soap films he discovered are the starting points of the modern theory of Minimal Surfaces and the Calculus of Variations.
The advent of computer graphics opened new possibilities for the study of the geometry of soap bubbles that were completely unthinkable only a few years ago. The presentation ends with the large exhibition “Soap Bubbles: The Forms and Utopia Between Vanitas, Art and Science” organized in Perugia, Palazzo dei Priori, March 16/June, 9, 2019, with works among others of Goltzius, Netscher, Bailly, Chardin, Beckman, Man Ray.
Semblanza de Michele Emmer
Michel Emmer ha trabajado en superficies mínimas y en el cálculo de variaciones, en las relaciones entre matemáticas y cultura, realizando películas y exposiciones. Realizó 18 películas de la serie “Arte y Matemáticas”, incluyendo la película sobre Escher. Últimas exposiciones “Pompas de jabón” Galería Nacional de Umbría, 2019; “Mimmo Paladino, “Mathematica”, Venecia 2019. Ideó y realizó la Conferencia “Matemáticas y cultura” en Venecia a lo largo de 22 años, editor de las series de Springer “Mathematics and Culture” y “The Visual Mind”, MIT Press (24 volúmenes). Escribió durante 25 años para L'Unita', Alfabeta2. Algunos libros: “Pompas de jabón entre arte y matemática” (premio literario Viareggio 2010), “Flatlandia”, con DVD, música de E. Morricone, “Racconto matematico” 2019, Bollati Boringhieri, “Imagine Math 8”, Springer 2022. Personas, del Cáucaso al cine italiano”, Gangemi, 2022. M. Emmer "ALLENDE, CHILE", Amor del libro, DD 3253/A, 30123 Venecia (2023), https://www.strisciarossa.it/