Maths-Art micro residency – Minimal-Surfaces – Artists’ views July-Sept 2019

Artists are invited to send in expressions of interest for an Art-Science pilot project with Dr Katrin Leschke, within the Mathematics Department at the University of Leicester, UK. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust through the Public Engagement Scheme of the Institutional Strategic
Support Fund and the Leverhulme Trust.

In September 2016 Dr Leschke was awarded a Leverhulme Trust funded international research grant to set up a collaboration with 5 institutions, University of Leicester, UK; University of Granada, Spain, University College Cork, Ireland, Technical University Munich, Germany and University of Tsukuba, Japan.

The research network “Minimal surfaces: integrable systems and visualisation” works on open problems on minimal surfaces. Physically, minimal surfaces arise for example when withdrawing a wire loop from soapy water. Artists are asked to respond to the research that this network is undertaking in the field of minimal surfaces and their visualisation.

The Leverhulme Trust and the Wellcome Trust funding is supporting this new opportunity for up to two artists to spend time exploring creative and collaborative practice within the context of current
mathematical research