Textiles Studies
Intersectionality in mathematics and the arts: honouring the memory of Reza Sarhangi (1952-2016)
Date of this Version
2018
Document Type
Article
Citation
Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (2018), Volume 12, 2018 - Issue 2-3: Honouring the Memory of Reza Sarhangi (1952-2016), Pages 59-64.
doi: 10.1080/17513472.2018.1469369
Abstract
Reza Sarhangi (1952–2016), as a mathematician, educator, and artist, had a profound impact on many interdisciplinary approaches to the study and teaching of mathematics and the arts. His vision and enthusiasm embraced and energized an international community of individuals engaged in explorations of intersections of art and mathematics. His legacy lives on despite his unexpected and premature death. He is best known for the success of his visionary endeavours surrounding the establishment of the Bridges Conference (Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science), which has been transformative in the fields of math and art. With the great breadth of his interdisciplinary interests, coupled with his love of engaging people and ideas, he founded Bridges on a model developed by Nat Friedman, professor of mathematics at the State University of New York-Albany, for art–math conferences (1992–1998). Since its founding in 1998, Bridges has met annually, attracting an ever larger cadre of artists, mathematicians, teachers, computer scientists, and the occasional art historian. Bridges began when Reza was teaching at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, and it moved with him when he moved to Towson University near Baltimore, Maryland. Subsequently, Bridges expanded globally with academic collaborations that Reza negotiated with colleagues and their institutions in Granada, Spain (2003), Banff, Alberta, Canada (2005), London, United Kingdom (2006), Donostia, Spain (2007), Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (2008), Banff, Alberta, Canada (2009; ), Pécs, Hungary (2010), Coimbra, Portugal (2011), Enschede, The Netherlands (2013), Seoul, South Korea (2014), Baltimore, Maryland, USA (2015), Jyväskylä, Finland (2016), and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (2017), which marked the 20th Bridges Conference. Papers, published in annual proceedings, are archived and available online
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