I recently paid a visit to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London to see Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a long-time friend with whom I have a mutual connection: we both worked closely with the late James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist who, in 1971, implemented "The World Question Center" as a work of conceptual art.
The walls of Obrist's office were covered with single pages of size A4 paper on which artists, writers, scientists had responded to his question: "What Is Your Formula?" Among the pieces were formulas by quantum physicist David Deutsch, artist and musician Brian Eno, architect Rem Koolhaas, and fractal mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
Some interesting formulas
- DANNY KAHNEMAN Psychologist, Princeton; Recipient, 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences <http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Kahneman.html>
- MARVIN MINSKY Computer Scientist; 1st Generation Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, MIT; Author, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind <http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Minsky.html>
- PAUL BLOOM Psychologist, Yale University; Author, Descartes' Baby <http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Bloom.html>
- RICHARD DAWKINS Evolutionary Biologist, Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science, Oxford University; Author, The God Delusion <http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/Dawkins.html>
A lot of formulas use symbols that I did not understand :-/
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