Event #1 - Infinity Structures

In this exhibition, we see art made through the use of math and technology to make an art piece that would describe the possible look of a multidimensional room. As we know, people live in a three dimensional world and we could only perceive a three dimensional without the use of computers so to attempt to create a room that emulates a room with more dimensions is not an easy task.

The artist and I

The artist’s name is Robert Gero and he used mathematics and computers to create the schematics of how the room would look and then through the use of styrofoam, he constructed his room. He would rotate, shrink, and position wire versions of the room and use those different pieces to overlap the actual room.

You can see the video overlapping the structure

Gero was able to impose more dimensions in the room with a few different tools. He would have a projector to screen another form of the wire intersections that would rotate as well as played sounds in the background that I can’t really describe. These features I liked a lot because it breaks our understanding of what these higher dimensions could contain. One thing that stood out to me were the pillows that were placed around the sculpture in which he explained were to make the room seem familiar by using props from the museum.

The seemingly out of place pillow has an importance of creating familiarity

Similar to the Flatlanders in Flatlands (mentioned in unit 2), we are inherently unable to understand greater dimensions that what we experience with our own lives, but unlike them, we are encouraged to figure out the mystery of these higher dimensions. There can be so many different interpretations of higher dimensions so it’s great to see one viewpoint as it will only spark more ideas and stir questions in others as well. The art piece was definitely able to create a conversation between its audience, mostly with the artist himself, so I believe that this is what makes it a compelling piece of artwork. I enjoyed this exhibition and it would be interesting to explore other’s view of a world in higher dimensions and the artwork they would create with that vision in mind.