38-411 The Science and Mathematics of Art
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This interdisciplinary course will provide a view of the application of mathematical and scientific knowledge in the creation, analysis, conservation, restoration and preservation of art work. The course will combine science and art history lectures with field work to Museums and Art Galleries. Students from diverse science and mathematics backgrounds will be exposed to the methods, demands, and aims of other technical and nontechnical disciplines. They will be challenged to consider and communicate how their own discipline relates to and enables the development of art and to identify synergetic relationships between different areas of human endeavor. Students will collaboratively design and carry out final projects which combine research and creative work these projects will be designed such that they can be used in local Museums for public outreach. A series of researchers and artists who work at the boundary between science and art will give guest lectures.
Prerequisites: 03-115 or 03-124 or 03-343 or 09-122 or 09-221 or 33-104 or 21-270 or 21-292 or 21-369 or 33-100 or 21-257
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