Tony Robbin's Lectures

Lectures	Tony Robbin has lectured widely on art, architecture, and mathematics. In addition to appearances at universities in the US and Europe, and peer review papers presented in professional conferences for art historians, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists, Robbin has appeared several times on national television programs, including Life by the Numbers, a PBS series. Currently there are four lectures that he can offer your school or organization. Art and the 4th Dimension From fourfield: Computers, Art & the 4th Dimension, Robbin's 1992 book, comes a discussion of such topics as: What is the 4th dimension? Can one see it? What is the history of artists using dimensional geometry in their work? How do computers help us to see the fourth dimension? And, what contributions has Robbin made in his own artwork? Quasicrystals Robbin, the patent holder for the application of quasicrystal geometry to architecture and the author of extensive computer programs for generating Quasicrystals, discusses: What are Quasicrystals? How are they generated? What to they look like? How can they be used to make a particularly contemporary art or architecture? And what do they tell us about reality? Engineering a New Architecture From Engineering a New Architecture, his 1996 book published by Yale University Press, Robbin's well-illustrated slide lecture shows that we are entering a period in which engineering is the unrecognized avant-garde in architectural design, a period in which new materials, and structural systems create new aesthetic principles. Four Dimensional Projections in Art and Reality From his chapter in The Visual Mind II, MIT Press, published in 2005, Robbin presents a newer understanding of three dimensional manifestations of four-dimensional reality as projections rather than as slices. He illustrates the idea with examples from his own work and the algorithms of quasicrystals, and shows the relevance of this idea to physics such as Twistor theory. This lecture has been presented to the Physics Colloquium at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, to the mathematics department at Canicius College, to the Beckman Institute in Urbana/Champlain, and to the Society for Literature and Science. For availability and lecture fees, please contact Tony Robbin at TonyRobbin@att.net

Lectures

Tony Robbin has lectured widely on art, architecture, and mathematics.

In addition to appearances at universities in the US and Europe, and peer review papers presented in professional conferences for art historians, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists, Robbin has appeared several times on national television programs, including Life by the Numbers, a PBS series. Currently there are four lectures that he can offer your school or organization.

Art and the 4th Dimension
From fourfield: Computers, Art & the 4th Dimension, Robbin's 1992 book, comes a discussion of such topics as: What is the 4th dimension? Can one see it? What is the history of artists using dimensional geometry in their work? How do computers help us to see the fourth dimension? And, what contributions has Robbin made in his own artwork?

Quasicrystals
Robbin, the patent holder for the application of quasicrystal geometry to architecture and the author of extensive computer programs for generating Quasicrystals, discusses: What are Quasicrystals? How are they generated? What to they look like? How can they be used to make a particularly contemporary art or architecture? And what do they tell us about reality?

Engineering a New Architecture
From Engineering a New Architecture, his 1996 book published by Yale University Press, Robbin's well-illustrated slide lecture shows that we are entering a period in which engineering is the unrecognized avant-garde in architectural design, a period in which new materials, and structural systems create new aesthetic principles.

Four Dimensional Projections in Art and Reality
From his chapter in The Visual Mind II, MIT Press, published in 2005, Robbin presents a newer understanding of three dimensional manifestations of four-dimensional reality as projections rather than as slices. He illustrates the idea with examples from his own work and the algorithms of quasicrystals, and shows the relevance of this idea to physics such as Twistor theory. This lecture has been presented to the Physics Colloquium at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, to the mathematics department at Canicius College, to the Beckman Institute in Urbana/Champlain, and to the Society for Literature and Science.

For availability and lecture fees, please contact Tony Robbin at TonyRobbin@att.net