Clark Richert's Blog
"Art-Science is in the very beginning stages... there is so much potential for a major paradigm shift." - Victoria Vesna, director of the Art/Sci Center, UCLA
My proposal involves postulating and defining a new type of space - a hypothetical space I call "Zonal Space". While the idea of "Zonal (Z) Space" is new for me, the work I have been doing for the last 30 years has led me to it; and to believe that it is necessary to develop it's axioms in a coherent visual form. This hypothetical new space is conceived of as a work of art, but defining it will hopefully shed some light on the nature of reality.
I propose to depict the axioms of "Z-Space" in a series of "Virtual" and "actual" visual models: 2-D images, sculptures, 3-D computer models, and computer animations to be exhibited interactively online (on a web site) and in galleries. A guiding principle will be to "keep it simple" and intuitively understandable. Given the cross-disciplinary nature of my inquiry, I will draw from a range of disciplines.
The project will involve research into contemporary spatial theories and their historical antecedents: higher dimensional theories such as String Theory and "M" Theory; Euclidian "flat" Space (where the shortest distance between two points is a straight line); and Einsteinian "curved" Space (where space is shaped by the presence of matter). I will also consider Buckminster Fuller's taut structured space and sculptor Kenneth Snelson's spatial structures. Also, of particular relevance is the higher dimensional zonahedral work of mathematician H.S.M Coxeter who conducted extensive research on zonahedra (structures built of sets of parallel lines called "zones" and postulated that the 2- and 3-dimensional forms we experience are shadows from higher dimensional space.
My proposal involves postulating and defining a new type of space - a hypothetical space I call "Zonal Space". While the idea of "Zonal (Z) Space" is new for me, the work I have been doing for the last 30 years has led me to it; and to believe that it is necessary to develop it's axioms in a coherent visual form. This hypothetical new space is conceived of as a work of art, but defining it will hopefully shed some light on the nature of reality.
I propose to depict the axioms of "Z-Space" in a series of "Virtual" and "actual" visual models: 2-D images, sculptures, 3-D computer models, and computer animations to be exhibited interactively online (on a web site) and in galleries. A guiding principle will be to "keep it simple" and intuitively understandable. Given the cross-disciplinary nature of my inquiry, I will draw from a range of disciplines.
The project will involve research into contemporary spatial theories and their historical antecedents: higher dimensional theories such as String Theory and "M" Theory; Euclidian "flat" Space (where the shortest distance between two points is a straight line); and Einsteinian "curved" Space (where space is shaped by the presence of matter). I will also consider Buckminster Fuller's taut structured space and sculptor Kenneth Snelson's spatial structures. Also, of particular relevance is the higher dimensional zonahedral work of mathematician H.S.M Coxeter who conducted extensive research on zonahedra (structures built of sets of parallel lines called "zones" and postulated that the 2- and 3-dimensional forms we experience are shadows from higher dimensional space.
