I want to go outside of the box for this week’s profile of an artist who works with crochet. Margaret and Christine Wertheim are the minds behind the Institute for Figuring’s Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project, an eco-friendly math-smart crochet project that has inspired many crafters around the world. The project was originally intended to communicate about science and technology but was more broadly accepted by the art world than the science world. The intention of the Wertheim’s work goes beyond just consumption as art but it definitely emphasizes beauty and has strong links to the art world. Das Riff Projekt speziell ist eine große Kunst-Projekt und eine, die will ich nicht zu versäumen, markieren in diesem Blog.
Mehr über Crocheters Margaret und Christine Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim ist ein Kulturhistoriker und Wissenschaft Autor, der das Institut für Herauszufinden gebildet (IFF) in 2003. Ihre Zwillingsschwester Christine Wertheim ist eine kulturelle Studien Professor am California Institute of the Arts. Gemeinsam starteten sie und kuratieren die Hyperbolische Crochet Coral Reef-Projekt, welche in beiden Kunstgalerien und Wissenschaft Museen der ganzen Welt ausgestellt, beginnend mit dem Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 2007. Dieses Projekt half ihnen, die erste jemals Theo Westenberg Grants for Women of Excellence erhalten Sie von Die Autry Museum. Die Schwestern stammen aus Queensland, Australien, sondern jetzt in Los Angeles leben. They learned to crochet from their mother.
Institute for Figuring
The IFF is an organization that works to educate the public about the aesthetic and poetic beauty of science and math. This includes the beauty in nature (like the hyperbolic geometry in a sea slug) as well as the beauty in manmade creations (such as Islamic mosaic tiling patterns). They educate using letters, exhibitions and publications, including several exhibits featuring hyperbolic crochet work. The organization was founded by Margaret Wertheim because she was discovering so many different artistic things in science (such as hyperbolic crochet) but major science magazines weren’t interested in them because they were considered more art or craft than science. She wanted to share these project as well as make science more accessible to non-scientists.
Hyperbolische Crochet Coral Reef-Projekt
Crochet Coral Reef
Perhaps the most well-known endeavor of the IFF is the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project, which is described as ”a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world”. Basically it is a replication of The Great Barrier Reef that has been done in crochet.
The reef project started out as a joking suggestion by Christine Wertheim. It was taken seriously by Margaret and ultimately became a huge and inspiring art project. The two sisters really balanced their different styles out in this project, mit Margaret Schaffung von mehr mathematisch korrekt strukturierte Stücke und Christine Hinzufügen einer mehr spielerischen Erkundung häkeln.
Es ist wichtig zu beachten, dass das Riff selbst von vielen wurde gefertigt, viele Hände. Tatsächlich, es gilt als möglicherweise die weltweit größte Community Kunstprojekt. Von der Website:
“Das Häkeln Reef ist eine einzigartige Verschmelzung von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Mathematik, Handwerk und der Praxis der Gemeinschaft, die auch die größte Gemeinde Kunstprojekt in der Welt sein kann.”
Tatsächlich, gab es viele Sub-Riffe, die jetzt erstellt wurden und in Ergänzung der ursprünglichen Great Barrier Reef. Eine Erweiterung dieses Projektes, dass Ich mag die Toxic Reef, welche beinhaltet plarn (Plastiktüte Garn) in das Design, zusätzliche Bewusstsein über die spezifischen Gefahren für die Umwelt von Plastikmüll erhöhen. Another satellite project that I’m interested in is the one created by women in Indiana State Prison. Es gibt viele Gefängnis häkeln projects and I think this one, which adds the components of math and science and art together, is a great one!
It is also important to note that the Wertheim sisters launched this project using the hyperbolic crochet “discovered”in 1997 by Daina Taimina. Taimina realized that using a simple algorithm when crocheting could create mathematically pure figures that could help explain the complexities of geometry in a highly visual format. The Wertheim sisters elevated this to a beautiful artistic level with their reef project. One of the ways in which they expanded upon Taimina’s work was by using different types of yarn – furry yarn, boucles, usw.. – to create strikingly different effects. This is what made the pieces look alive, like sea creatures. Another way that they expanded on Taimina’s work was that they didn’t just increase the same number of stitches each round but alternated their increases to create different organic shapes.
Interesting fact: Taimina originally tried to use knitting to shoe mathematical principals but it didn’t work because it quickly led to too many loops on the needle. Crochet worked!
Understanding the Art of the Crochet Coral Reef
Detail from The Toxic Reef satellite project
Most crochet art has two distinct components to it. Erste, it is visually striking. Natürlich, beauty is in the eye of the beholder so you and I may disagree about what makes beautiful crochet art but there’s clearly a visual component to crochet art. Zweite, there is typically a message or intention behind the art work. Beispielsweise, many crochet artists use this craft to explore issues of womanhood, gender identity and relationships because it has traditionally been a domestic art (and not one that’s always been taken seriously as an art form).
The work of Margaret and Christine Wertheim explores these themes. It takes the “inländischen” or feminine craft of crochet and uses it to explore and explain complex mathematics, typically considered a “männlich” subject. Margaret Wertheim has written a book that addresses this issue: A Field Guide to Hyperbolic Space: Eine Erforschung der Intersection of Higher Geometrie und Feminine Handwerk
Die Crochet Coral Reef-Projekt ist auch die Kunst mit einer Botschaft. Es wird verwendet, um das Bewusstsein für die ökologischen Probleme, denen dieses Planeten zu erhöhen, speziell, wie die globale Erwärmung und Umweltverschmutzung verursacht große Verwüstungen an die Wunder der Natur, das ist das Great Barrier Reef. Es ist grün art.
Ein Spaß damit verbundenen Tatsache, an diesem Projekt ist, dass mehrere der häkeln Riff Objekte wurden in den Sätzen von einer Socke Puppenspiel genannt Quoi dass Christine Wertheim schrieb und inszenierte in vorgestellten 2008. Das ist das Hinzufügen einer Schicht von Kunst zu einem anderen – Ich liebe es!
Understanding the Math in Hyperbolic Crochet
I think one of the coolest things about the hyperbolic crochet that has been created, used and written about by these women is the fact that you don’t have to understand math to create with it but it can be used to explain math if you’re interested in that. Hyperbolic crochet uses simple algorithms to create shapes. For someone who is crocheting, this can be translated to something as simple as working in the round and always working two stitches into each stitch of the previous round, thus creating a mathematically pure and visually striking piece of crochet that looks like something that could be found in nature. Jedoch, Sie können es mit einem Mathematiker Auge zu erkunden, um ein besseres Gefühl für das, was möglicherweise vorher nur gewesen theoretischen Mathematik für Sie. Ich weiß, dass ich persönlich nicht gut in Geometrie Klassen überhaupt, weil mein Gehirn einfach nicht berechnen wollte auf diese Weise aber die Arbeit mit hyperbolischer Häkeltechniken hilft, einige davon nur Sinn in meinem Gehirn.
Hier ist eine snipped von Informationen aus dem Korallenriff Website, die Ihnen ein Gefühl von dem, was ich meine:
“Erste Schritte auf dem eigenen hyperbolischen Modelle Anfang ist leicht. Die grundlegende Erkenntnis ist zu verstehen, dass diese Formen von der einfachen Prozess der Erhöhung der Anzahl der Stiche in jeder Zeile führen. The more often you increase stitches the faster the model will grow and the more crenellated the finished form will become. Models can begin with a simple line, resulting in a hyperbolic plane; or from a single point with the crochet spiraling around to gradually fan out like a cone, resulting in what is known as apseudosphere. You may also begin from a circle, which will produce tubular, bell shaped, or trumpeted configurations.”
Another Wertheim Art Piece: Inlandia
Crochet Cactus Garden
The sisters were involved in another similar art project in 2008 which explored the life of LA’s Inland Empire. Their Crochet Cactus Garden was a key feature of this project. The women curated the project, which was a collaborative project featuring the crochet work of nearly one dozen contributors.
Another IFF Crochet Exhibit: The Quick and the Dead
Another crochet project that was put together by the IFF but not curated by the sisters was a piece in the 2009 exhibit called The Quick and the Dead, which was curated by Peter Eleey. Diese “small and delicate installation of hyperbolic crochet pieces … takes a fresh look at the history of conceptual art over the past century … (and asks) what is alive and dead within the legacy of conceptual art.”
Margaret and Christine Wertheim Around the Web
Explore the work of these great women who I would definitely call artists!
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