| On Feb
5 2005, the Institute For Figuring hosted an event with Cabinet magazine
at the Kitchen performance space in New York. Before a packed crowd
of artists, knitting enthusiasts, and a Nobel Prize winning scientist,
mathematicians David Henderson and Daina Taimina elucidated the nature
of hyperbolic space and demonstrated the power of hook and yarn to
illuminate the properties of this enigmatic geometry. During the proceedings
audience members constructed their own paper models, culminating in
a huge black and white hyperbolic soccer ball model. An unexpected
wonder capped off the afternoon when audience member Trevor Oakes,
a recent graduate from Cooper Union, revealed his own astonishing
model made from intricately woven pipe cleaners. |
