ITVOIDS.COM SFVFS™/MIND THE MAP DISCOVERING THE THRESHOLD OF MATHS AND ART

When my father died he left numerous "useful" things,  which I used to tease him about, because unless you found uses for these things, it was hoarding. But when I found a pile of maps amongst his belongings I was compelled to use them creatively. So alongside 54 fellow artists connected to me via Leake Street under Waterloo Station, we began creating 108 collaborations.

What I didn't expect was what the mapping process revealed. The act of locating — of asking where does this sit? rather than what is the answer? — turned out to have implications far beyond the tunnel walls of Leake Street or the map surfaces. The same question that organised our collaborative art began to organise something stranger: a framework for understanding how the hardest problems in mathematics are expressed.

Not solved. Located.

This exhibition shows the journey that enabled me to explore both frontiers. The physical works made by 54 artists. And the mathematical programme that grew from the same root — the same instinct my father had, to find where things belong.

For those of you who may be academically minded and are interested in the mathematical process and implications of this experience you can read the papers here at Zenodo along with the html code for the SFVFS™ Positional Classifier v6 (link below) which you can input into the LLM you are using and use for free. Any feedback is really welcome. 

All entries on Zenodo are Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International.

The art side of this exhibition will be launched on 31st March. 

MARC CRAIG

Image “BEING GUIDED” by BEINGCREATIVE and MARC CRAIG 37” x 39” Mixed Media on OS Map