Pixels and Pencils
Nina Samuel Contributes to Workshop about Computer Visualizations in the Sciences in Paris
Adrien Douady, John Hubbard, Fractal Matings, 1982.
The images of chaos and fractal geometry are probably the best-known mathematical symbols of the rise of computer visualization in the sciences. While these popular pictorial inventions of the mid-1980s and 1990s had a rather low epistemic potential and no direct relation to the operations of the thinking mind, the situation was quite different in the years before their popularization. In her talk on May 2nd at the workshop »Writing the History of Computer Visualizations in the Sciences« at Paris, MoA researcher Nina Samuel will discuss the relationship between abstract reasoning and visual imagination in complex dynamics and fractal geometry from 1960–1980.
The workshop »Writing the History of Computer Visualizations in the Sciences. Production, uses, circulation (1940-1990)« takes place from 2-3 May 2024, and is organized by Edgar Lejeune. For the complete program with all speakers' bios and abstracts please see the website of Le Centre Alexandre-Koyré at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris: https://cak.ehess.fr/evenement/writing-history-computer-visualizations-sciences.
The event is hybrid, to receive the Zoom link, please contact edgar.lejeune [at] ehess.fr.