Art · Science · Technology
Pages SPIRA SUURA has found and keeps returning to while making work — the mathematics and natural forms behind it, techniques and tools, artists and exhibitions, and the practicalities of showing and selling.
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01 — Find something new
A Linz, Austria–based institution exploring art, technology and society. It comprises a festival, the Prix Ars Electronica competition, a museum (the Center) and the Futurelab R&D unit.
An artist who turns mathematical forms into sculpture through metal 3D printing. Known for pieces based on minimal surfaces and polyhedra, as well as laser-etched glass crystals of molecules and proteins.
Articles on computer graphics, mathematics, shaders and fractals. Its explanations of signed distance functions and raymarching are standard references for anyone drawing shapes with equations.
The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, publisher of Leonardo, the journal founded by Frank Malina in 1968. It is a long-standing home for research and criticism at the intersection of art and science.
02 — Go deeper
Browse the hierarchy along four axes: mathematics, natural forms and patterns, technology and techniques, and showing and selling.
The mathematics of shape, number and structure that work can be built on.
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The hidden order in plants, crystals, light and the heavens.
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Code, machines and data techniques that can be brought into practice.
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The practicalities of producing, showing and selling work.
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03 — Follow the links
Number of entries listed under both fields. Select a number to see them.
| Mathematics | Natural Forms & Patterns | Technology & Techniques | Showing & Selling | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 27 | 7 | 14 | 0 |
| Natural Forms & Patterns | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Technology & Techniques | 14 | 6 | 31 | 0 |
| Showing & Selling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Entries listed under more than one main field act as bridges between domains.
A mathematics channel that explains linear algebra, calculus, number theory, neural networks and more through animation. Its way of building understanding through moving diagrams is a model for turning mathematics into film.
The site of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's project for turning astronomical research into images. It offers Mitaka, free software for travelling from Earth out to the large-scale structure of the universe, along with simulation-based films and VR works — reference material for visualising celestial motion and orbits.
The site of a Japanese artist known for the "Star Cage". It presents bamboo sculptures, benches, an origami turbine and other works based on Fibonacci numbers and quasicrystal geometry, along with papers and Fibonacci-based music. The site design is old-fashioned, but it is still being updated.
A personal site collecting algorithm experiments and visual toys. Fractals, reaction–diffusion, chaos, the n-body problem, boids, the travelling salesman problem, Voronoi diagrams and more can be set in motion and explored in the browser.