II.2 SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

emphasis: the modeling relation, mathematical description

tapes:

• Mechanical Universe excerpts SIG 20, 25

print references:

• Life Itself, Rosen on formal models
• Street Math for Artists, Ohio State U. Dept of Art Education course notes

concepts

• formalism, formal system
• geometry, topology
• structure
• scale
• coordinate systems, dimensionality
• functions, equations, dependent and independent variables
• empirical system, physical system
• dynamics
• laws, constraints
• system elements and properties, system parameters
• system equations
• modeling
• simulation
• measurement, sampling, approximation, numerical representation, numerical data
• mapping and transformation

experimental film:

• Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper, Rimmer, systematic transformation of a single image by filmmaker with math background