The common history of mathematics and art can be traced back to the fourth century BC, when Greek sculptors described the ideal proportions of humans. Elevated in the meantime to the divine, as in the treatise De divina proportione by the mathematician Luca Pacioli, illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, mathematics continues to influence the visual arts in modern times, for example in the abstraction of Piet Mondrian or the movement of Concrete Art; in Digital Art, the two disciplines are even more closely interwoven through the computer.
The symposium organized by Milena Damrau and Martin Skrodzki takes up this connection and gives various researchers and artists the opportunity to present new insights. Presentations are accepted on all genres of art, as well as music, that analyze in detail mathematical elements in works of art and elucidate their meaning. The presentations, given in English, are grouped under topics such as »Puzzles and Animals«, »Symmetry«, and »Music and Rendering«. It is planned to present the results of the symposium to the public in educational institutions as well as in other projects in the future.
Some sessions will take place in the morning, others in the afternoon, so that a broad audience can participate. Registrations are still being accepted up to and including Sunday.
