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Can we feel mathematics as

synesthetic experiences in
their visual abstractions? Is
there anything metaphysical
within art based on computer
code? Guang Zhu romanticizes
mathematical equations. To
her, they seem to live through
stories and places. She works
with mathematical formulas
and computational code to
visualize parametric equations. Studying those moving
visualizations, she explores the
research aspect of parametric
equations in relation to their
geometry and history.
Zhu lives in Brooklyn, New
York. She grew up in Northern
China, NingXia, an Arabic
culture–influenced cityscape.
She has endless passion for art,
music, science, and the natural world. She received a BFA
from the Nova Scotia College
of Art and Design, and a MFA
from NYU. Her thesis, “An
Aquarium of Equations,” received a grant from the Lower
Manhattan Culture Council
in 2013, and its accompanying
research paper, “The Parametric Courante,” was published
in Fylkingen Publishing’s Hz
Journal in Stockholm, Sweden.
Its subsequent paper, “ReasonLess Math,” was published at
VOKE Journal as well as presented at The Arts in Society
conference (Rome, Italy, 2014).
Zhu has exhibited in NYC,
Canada, and China.
Visit Zhu’s website at http://
guangless.com/

Top: Contact prints from Music Note series.
Bottom: Music Note #1 (2014). 30” x 25”. Woodblock prints, print-making paper. Images courtesy of the artist.

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Right: Moon_like
(2014). 25” x 33”.
Analog prints
summer-set paper.
Image courtesy of
the artist.

SciArt in America February 2016