Margaret Wertheim in the” Fohr Satellite Reef”- at the Museum Kunste der Westkuste, Fohr Germany, 2012.
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is making a community based Satellite Reef.
On Thursday September 17, 2020, Margaret Wertheim will launch the latest addition to the ever-evolving archipelago of Satellite Reefs with an artists’ talk about this global community-art-happening in the context of the overall Crochet Coral Reef project.
Following up, on Tuesday September 22, Wertheim will lead a workshop about crochet-coral making and the mathematics of hyperbolic geometry underlying Crochet Reef forms. From the crenelated surfaces of living coral organisms to the structure of the cosmos, nature abounds in non-Euclidean formations. Weaving a thread via domestic female craft from sea slugs to spacetime, Wertheim will explore resonances of geometry in nature and ask “What does it mean to know mathematics?”
Lecture Date: 09/17/2020 5:30pm CDT
Workshop Date: 09/22/2020 2:30pm CDT
Both events will be held live on Zoom.
The Urbana-Champaign Satellite Reef is hosted by the Department of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Satellite Reef co-ordinators: Guen Montgomery and Jennifer Bergmark.
To participate in the Urbana-Champaign Satellite Reef and to submit crochet corals, see here.