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Forthcoming Lectures + Events Seeing Anew [IFF-L20]A lecture by Trevor and Ryan Oakes at Machine Project Sunday, June 24 @ 7pm // Previous IFF Lectures The Logic Alphabet of Shea Zelleweger[IFF-L19]A discussion with the IFF and Dr. Shea Zelleweger at Foshay Masonic Lodge Saturday, March 3 @ 5pm Structural Considerations of the Business Card Sponge[IFF-L17] By Dr. Jeannine Mosely Sunday, September 10 @ 8pm The Insect Trilogy @ Telic Arts Exchange How Flies Fly [IFF-L14] By Dr Michael Dickinson The Ecology of a Termite's Gut [IFF-L15] By Dr Jared Leadbetter What is it Like to be a Spider? [IFF-L16] By Dr Simon Pollard Where the Wild Things Are 2: Things That Think: Where the Wild Things Are: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: Darwinism on a Desktop: The Logic Alphabet Why Things Don't Fall Down Kindergarten: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane [IFF-L5] The Mathematics of Paper Folding [IFF-L4] The Physics of Snowflakes [IFF-L3] Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane [IFF-L2] The Figure That Stands Behind Figures: // Previous Events Crochet Hyperbolic Workshop |
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Trevor Oakes drawing New York City on the inner surface of a sphere from the top of the Chrylser Building. |
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SEEING ANEW It is hard to believe there is anything new to be discovered about perspective drawing. But in 2004 twin artists Trevor and Ryan Oakes made a startling discovery about how to render perspectival images on the inner surface on a sphere. Their discovery is all the more intriguing in the light of recent controversy surrounding David Hockney's thesis about the use of spherical lenses in the making of perspective drawings in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In their first public talk the Oakes will discuss their perspectival researches and demonstrate their unique spherical rendering technique using a specially designed stand and an innovative concept of "concave paper". The lecture will include an historical account of other optical tools used to depict three-dimensional space - including the concave mirror-lens, the camera obscura, and the camera lucida. These prior techniques all involved optical equipment that in some sense controlled or bent the flow of light; the Oakes' method uses only pen and paper - but here it is the paper rather than the light that is bent. Trevor and Ryan Oakes are visual artists in New York City. Their work is characterized by an in-depth investigation of light, vision, and the interplay between the visual cortex and the human retina . Ryan and Trevor graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2004. |
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Spherical dish drawing of New York City on concave paper, by Trevor and Ryan Oakes. Photos courtesy of the artists. |
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