Claire Feeley, Tadgh Hickey, Tom Crowley: A Mathematician’s Apology

Title:

A Mathematician’s Apology

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Performers:



• Claire Feeley
• Tadgh Hickey
• Tom Crowley

Symposium:

• ISEA2009: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Venue(s):

• Waterfront Hall , Belfast , Ireland

Artist Statement:

Performance

G. H. Hardy penned A Mathematician’s Apology in the twilight of his academic career. It was at a time when the worldview fostered throughout modernism was suffering widespread critique and Hardy’s apology stands, in many ways, is a eulogy to the failing doctrine of the Enlightenment that dominated Western thought in science and aesthetics at the turn of the last century.

Category:

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