Ormsby将与波特兰艺术家Meech Boakye和PICA艺术总监Kristan Kennedy一起创作一个跨学科的神秘项目。
贝内特·坎贝尔·弗格森
2025年7月3日
Mathematics professor 凯尔Ormsby acknowledges that a certain amount of mystery surrounds his upcoming collaboration supported through 开区间, part of the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division.
“I’m not sure how awesome a story it is: ‘Reed professor intends to do art,’” Ormsby says. Yet that very nebulousness is what makes 开区间 enticing: It has selected 15 interdisciplinary trios to collaborate on…well, anything.
开区间 为科学家、艺术家和生产合作伙伴提供7个月的威博体育探索支持。 “The uniting force is a real openness to collaboration and exploration,” Ormsby says. “The thing that’s bringing us together isn’t our disciplinary backgrounds, but rather an enthusiasm for exploring new ideas and seeing what that refractive process results in.”
开区间为15个三人组挑选了一大批有远见的人。 参与者来自不同的领域，如天体物理学、生物学、神经科学、表演、雕塑和声音艺术。 Ormsby将与波特兰艺术家Meech Boakye和PICA艺术总监Kristan Kennedy合作。
“I think from an outsider perspective, it can seem like a strange partnership,” he says. “But the creative and exploratory stuff that happens when I’m developing a new mathematics project [requires] vulnerability and collaboration. My technical expertise, paired with that openness, can meet [Boakye and Kennedy’s] artistic vision and expertise.”
The collective vision of Ormsby, Boakye, and Kennedy could manifest in myriad ways, since 开区间 hasn’t dictated strict requirements for the trio’s project. In fact, they haven’t dictated that the team has to create a project at all.
“I don’t anticipate that we’ll do nothing, [but] there’s no line in the contract that says you got to have a thing,” Ormsby says. “We’re all certainly interested in seeing what emerges.”
会发生什么？ 三人组每个成员的背景都呈现出诱人的可能性。 Ormsby研究同伦理论和代数几何； Boakye专注于生物材料研究和数字花园； and Kennedy’s stewardship of PICA’s mind-bending oeuvre suggests boundless possibilities.
“Kristan is thinking about how to record some conversations or have some kind of process piece that describes how things emerge over time,” Ormsby says. “But then we’ll also be working with PICA to exhibit…whatever it is we end up doing.”
这三人最近搬到了纽约北部，在一个静心的地方交换想法，但艺术（和数学）爱好者们将不得不等待，看看他们的思想融合会产生什么样的创造性成果。 Not to worry: “Reed professor intends to do art” is nothing if not a promising prospect.