Comments on: Biweekly links for 12/05/2008 http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/biweekly-links-for-12052008/ Mon, 07 May 2012 21:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John Sidles http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/biweekly-links-for-12052008/comment-page-1/#comment-16139 John Sidles Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:03:07 +0000 http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=508#comment-16139 Hi Charlene! I too thought that Bathsheba Grossman's link was immensely cool -- the technology, the business model, and the art all were fascinating ... subversive too, like all good art, mathematics, and science. Ms. Grossman's work is satisfyingly transgressive on all three channels at once! She is a real-world character straight out of Austin Grossman's hilariously transgressive comic novel <i>Soon I Will Be Invincible</i> (a sample of Grossman's prose: "There has to be a little bit of crime in any theory, or it's not truly good science. Because you have to break the rules to get anything real done.") So, kudos to Ms. Grossman for recognizing the artistic, mathematical, and scientific potentiality of this technology ... and for the fact that there is "a little bit of crime" in her art. As the rural Iowa phrase goes "I would give a nickel" to watch the wicking of the hot liquid bronze into one of Ms. Grossman's sculptures ... to watch that wicking would be as wonderful as the sculpture itself. Hi Charlene!

I too thought that Bathsheba Grossman’s link was immensely cool — the technology, the business model, and the art all were fascinating … subversive too, like all good art, mathematics, and science.

Ms. Grossman’s work is satisfyingly transgressive on all three channels at once! She is a real-world character straight out of Austin Grossman’s hilariously transgressive comic novel Soon I Will Be Invincible (a sample of Grossman’s prose: “There has to be a little bit of crime in any theory, or it’s not truly good science. Because you have to break the rules to get anything real done.”)

So, kudos to Ms. Grossman for recognizing the artistic, mathematical, and scientific potentiality of this technology … and for the fact that there is “a little bit of crime” in her art.

As the rural Iowa phrase goes “I would give a nickel” to watch the wicking of the hot liquid bronze into one of Ms. Grossman’s sculptures … to watch that wicking would be as wonderful as the sculpture itself.

]]> By: Michael Nielsen http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/biweekly-links-for-12052008/comment-page-1/#comment-16136 Michael Nielsen Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:02:22 +0000 http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=508#comment-16136 Charlene, that definitely sounds like Dave :-) I guess Bathsheba Grossman can still make money off of scale, making a percentage for each copy she makes. She seems to have done quite well for herself, anyways. Charlene, that definitely sounds like Dave :-) I guess Bathsheba Grossman can still make money off of scale, making a percentage for each copy she makes. She seems to have done quite well for herself, anyways.

]]> By: Bee http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/biweekly-links-for-12052008/comment-page-1/#comment-16132 Bee Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:29:18 +0000 http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=508#comment-16132 Thanks for the link :-) Thanks for the link :-)

]]> By: Charlene Ahn http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/biweekly-links-for-12052008/comment-page-1/#comment-16126 Charlene Ahn Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:13:18 +0000 http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=508#comment-16126 Bathsheba Grossman is very cool not just because her work is so awesome (which it is) but also because she has a very different approach to sculpture than most artists: she believes in making her work cheap and accessible so that ordinary people (not just super-large-rich institutions) can own it. I really, really approve of this philosophy. When Dave got me our first sculpture (a Nexus), when we were engaged, he teased me by telling me my present had A_4 symmetry. When pressed for another hint, Dave told me it was printed... I was VERY confused. Bathsheba Grossman is very cool not just because her work is so awesome (which it is) but also because she has a very different approach to sculpture than most artists: she believes in making her work cheap and accessible so that ordinary people (not just super-large-rich institutions) can own it. I really, really approve of this philosophy.

When Dave got me our first sculpture (a Nexus), when we were engaged, he teased me by telling me my present had A_4 symmetry. When pressed for another hint, Dave told me it was printed… I was VERY confused.

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