ISAMA 2002
THIRD INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE ARTS, MATHEMATICS AND ARCHITECTURE ***
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, July 22 - 26, 2002

 
Following the success of the first Conference ISAMA99 at the University of The Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain and ISAMA2000 at The University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA, we invite you in 2002 to attend our third Conference in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, the capital of the Black Forest.

The Conference will take place in the University of Education at Freiburg in cooperation with the University at Albany - N.Y.,USA.
The languages of the conference will be English and German (with translations).

Main speakers are:
Prof. Javier Barallo, Universität des Baskenlandes S. Sebastian, Spanien "Mathematical Experiments on Gothic Structures" (24.7)
Prof. Nathaniel Friedman, University of Albany, USA "Hyperseeing and Hypersculptures" (23.7)
Prof. Eugen Gomringer, Inst. für Konkrete Poesie und Konkrete Kunst, Rehau "Mathematik und Kultur" (22.7)
Prof. Dietmar Guderian, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg "Mathematik in der Kunst der Gegenwart" (26.7)
Charles Perry, Boston, USA "Mathematical Intuitional Sculpture" (25.7)
Prof. Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Universität Dortmund "METAEDER - Stein der Weisen für Architektur und Nanostruktur" (23.7)

The programme for the conference includes  plenary adresses with invited speakers, paper sessions with componists, musicians, artists, scientists of the arts,
archtitects, teachers and mathematicians from Europe and abroad, workshops and  forums. Musical performances, a small exhibition of modern art and a special installation for the ISAMA2002 (by G. Baschek) will accompany the conference.

There will be scientific-cultural visits to the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (with exhibition "Iconoclash") in Karlsruhe, to the  Vitra - Museum in Weil (Guided visites to  the buildings created by  Ando und Zahid) and to the Museum Beyeler (architecture by R.Piano and exhibition  "Monet")

Sub - themes of the meeting will be:
- Mathematics and contemporary art
- Mathematics and culture in the past and presence
- Links between modern architecture and mathematics
- Architecture, arts and mathematics in the future school


The conference fee is 225 Euros (students 100 EUROs).
It will include
  - all excursions
  - all common events as
    reception of the city Freiburg,
    social dinner
    reception at the vernissage of the art exhibition
    coffee and some snacks at the coffee breaks
    printed little programm book with short communications of
    all lectures
    (eventuelly the transfers between hotel and ISAMA2002,
    discussion not finished)
    a.o.

The opening ceremony (free and public) will take place on

Monday, July  22nd at 10 a.m. combined  with the presentation of Prof. Eugen Gomringer:

"Mathematics and Culture".

For further informations please contact:
Prof. Dietmar Guderian
Institute of Mathematics, Informatics and their Didactics at he
University of Education Freiburg
Kunzenweg 21
79117 Freiburg

Tel. + 1702613007
       +761 682 0 or +761 682 349
Fax +761 682 525
e-mail: isama2002@ph-freiburg.de
http://www.ph-freiburg.de/ISAMA2002
*** Informations about the International Society of Arts, Mathematics and Architecture ISAMA
       are to be found under:   www.isama.org

Nathaniel Friedman      Dietmar Guderian


Freiburg im Breisgau, July 1st 2001         Prof. D. Guderian