John Horton Conway passed away on April 11th, 2020. It was at beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, he died of the consequence of the COVID-19.
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Art Exhibition December 10, 2021
John Horton Conway passed away on April 11th, 2020. It was at beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, he died of the consequence of the COVID-19.
Art Exhibition November 26, 2021
We participated in a photo competition Curiosités de la recherche organized by our university. Two categories were possible: ‘artistic’ and ‘scientific’. We are proud to announce that we won the ‘Public Choice’ award with the following image (produced by the FlowAutomaton with 38628 agents in 475 iterations):
Art Exhibition July 02, 2021
The first official exhibition to which the G-ART group has participated. The theme of the exhibition is well-illustrated by the organizers:
"Our thinking needs to rely on the duality of opposites to characterize, conceptualize and evaluate what surrounds us: the true and the false, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly...
Beyond our perceptions and our thoughts, dualities do exist in Nature: water and fire, life and death, emptiness and fullness, the visible and the invisible, shadow and light...
However, don't we say that there is no light without shadow and that there is no shadow without light?
This exhibition proposes to deal with the theme of opposites, by showing how, beyond contrasts and differences, opposing elements can communicate, respond to each other or even complement each other, playing on sometimes unstable balances and paradoxes."
Art Exhibition July 01, 2021
The title of this post is the title of the picture you can see below. It is one of the first of a series of pictures exploring the power of HOCA library and its philosophy. Different levels of interpretation can be used to understand the picture. At a macro level Da Vinci is showing us his enigmatic Mona Lisa at a micro level Wiener is playing with cellular automata viewing them as a multi-agent system. Agents move on the picture and through a multitude of local interactions transform it into a new picture as much enigmatic as the original one.