Islamic Symmetries
other 2016 full proposal 
I was asked to create an exhibit proposal for a course on art curating at UCSB. I chose to center my project aroung a topic that has interested me for some time due to its interdisciplinary nature: Islamic tiles and modern quasi-crystals. This exhibit bridges the gap between science, engineering and art. These fields of study have entered the popular landscape as vastly dissimilar, but this is simply not true. During the Italian Renaissance in the quattrocento, art and science were studied in conjunction, one enforced the other. As both fields became fragmented and more specialized, the crossover decreased. However there are moments of interdisciplinarity among the fields which present a fascinating view of humanity. The inherent human physiological attraction to symmetry and pattern neatly bridges the gap between seemingly disparate fields of study.
full proposal I was asked to create an exhibit proposal for a course on art curating at UCSB. I chose to center my project aroung a topic that has interested me for some time due to its interdisciplinary nature: Islamic tiles and modern quasi-crystals. This exhibit bridges the gap between science, engineering and art. These fields of study have entered the popular landscape as vastly dissimilar, but this is simply not true. During the Italian Renaissance in the quattrocento, art and science were studied in conjunction, one enforced the other. As both fields became fragmented and more specialized, the crossover decreased. However there are moments of interdisciplinarity among the fields which present a fascinating view of humanity. The inherent human physiological attraction to symmetry and pattern neatly bridges the gap between seemingly disparate fields of study.
I was asked to create an exhibit proposal for a course on art curating at UCSB. I chose to center my project aroung a topic that has interested me for some time due to its interdisciplinary nature: Islamic tiles and modern quasi-crystals. This exhibit bridges the gap between science, engineering and art. These fields of study have entered the popular landscape as vastly dissimilar, but this is simply not true. During the Italian Renaissance in the quattrocento, art and science were studied in conjunction, one enforced the other. As both fields became fragmented and more specialized, the crossover decreased. However there are moments of interdisciplinarity among the fields which present a fascinating view of humanity. The inherent human physiological attraction to symmetry and pattern neatly bridges the gap between seemingly disparate fields of study.