Extra Credit Event 5: Robert Gero Exhibit

Event 5 Robert Gero Exhibit

Robert Gero is an artist working with using mathematics in his art. His exhibit, called Infinity Structures: Paradoxical Spaces, involves the creation of a structure that has a stable exterior and an infinitely expanding interior. This seems contradictory and impossible, since how could a structure have internal dimensions that exceed its external dimensions? 

The exhibit spans the entire room

It would seem like it would explode. Dr. Gero's work tackles this problem where the structures have quantitative additions in space and at the same time  move and express a qualitative change. The result is an interweaving structure made of styrofoam beams interweaving throughout the entire room and rotating lights that simulate the beams' movement.   There is a background soundrack that appears to change in sound intensity as one moves throughout the room and encounters a change in artwork. Since we talked about mathematics in creating perspectives in paintings and drawings, the Styrofoam structures combined with the sense of change in the audiovisual perception  brought in a new way of defining perspective with three dimensional sculptures. 

Dr. Gero talking about his exhibit

Dr. Gero is also a philosopher, so he does a good job of bringing about questioning the traditional. This exhibit also reminded me of how black holes in space form, when a star collapses  on itself, its mass remains the same but the density increases. However, this example is not as paradoxical as Dr. Gero's exhibit of expanding interiors yet constant exterior. I recommend it, but the only problem with this exhibit was that there were too many students from other classes and this made it hard to move about to take pictures. 

Me with the artwork and Dr. Gero to the right and background of the photo