IFF director Margaret Wertheim will be visiting the University of Houston as a guest artist and lecturer in the School of Art. On Thursday January 30, 6:30 pm, Wertheim will present a public lecture about the Crochet Coral Reef project and its intersection of art, science, mathematics, environmentalism and community engagement. Ms Wertheim will also conduct a workshop for students and faculty about hyperbolic space in which participants explore this enigmatic geometry and its relationship to nature by making paper models.
Events hosted by the University of Houston’s Katherine G. McGovern College of Arts, School of Art, organized by Professor Anna Mayer.
Events Place & Time:
January 30, 2020. Dudley Recital Hall – Fine Arts 132.
5:30pm Reception, 6:30pm Lecture
University of Houston events webpage.
Students construct a paper model of hyperbolic space in Margaret Wertheim’s “Making Space” class at the Hayward Gallery’s “Wide Open School” (2014).
Margaret Wertheim lecture @ University of Houston, School of Art, 01/30/2020.
“Pod World – Hyperbolic,” by Christine and Margaret Wertheim at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Photo courtesy the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times” by Francesco Galli.