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Reimann's art wins award

April 6, 2022 — David Reimann's piece Septenary Circles won The American Mathematical Society's "Best photograph, painting, or print" JMM Mathematical Art Exhibition Award, given "for aesthetically pleasing works that combine mathematics and art". The award was established in 2008 through an endowment provided to the American Mathematical Society by an anonymous donor who wishes to acknowledge those whose works demonstrate the beauty and elegance of mathematics expressed in a visual art form. See the works in the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings Gallery.

Reimann exhibits artwork at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings

April 6 — David Reimann's artworks Septenary Circles and Binomial Bits were part of the juried Mathematical Art Exhibition at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings held virtually 6–9 April 2022.

Reimann leads activities at the NYC Math Festival

August 14, 2021 — David Reimann led the construction of several large geometric objects at the recent 2021 NYC Math Festival, a live event of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) on August 14, 2021.

Reimann speaks at MAA MathFest

August 5, 2021 — David Reimann gave a talk Art from Langford Sequences at the annual MathFest, an event of the The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on August 5, 2021. This year the event was held on-line. See the page Septenary Circles to see several recent artworks related to Langford sequences.

Reimann speaks at the Bridges Conference

August 3, 2021 — David Reimann's gave a talk Lifelines: A Series of Artworks that Invite Contemplation on the Human Condition at the Bridges Conference held virtually 2–3 August 2021. In this work, a series of abstract artworks inviting contemplation on the human condition is presented. Each artwork was created using curves with lengths drawn at random from a data set of ages at the time of death in the US during the year 2007. The connection between these pieces and the data set creates a space for deeper reflection on the human condition. The title and accompanying text for each piece reveal to the audience a deeper meaning and serve as a further point of engagement. This approach of linking a data set to art can is general enough to be used with other data sets. The associated paper appears in the proceedings on pages 305–308.

Reimann exhibits artwork at the Bridges Conference

August 2, 2021 — David Reimann's artwork Seeds of Lifelines was part of the juried Mathematical Art Exhibition at the Bridges Conference held virtually 2–3 August 2021. The piece is a digital print that is part of a series exploring the human condition, created from random sampling of US mortality data from the year 2007.

Reimann speaks at the NYC Math Festival

July 17, 2021 — David Reimann gave a talk Fun with Figurate Numbers at the 2021 On-Line NYC Math Festival, an online event of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) on July 17, 2021. This main focus of the talk was how positive integers can be visually represented by a geometric arrangement of items. For example, square numbers can be represented by a square grid of items. Other geometric arrangements can be created such as triangles, hexagons, and stars.

Reimann exhibits artwork

January 9, 2021 — David Reimann had two pieces of artwork included in the juried Mathematical Art Exhibition at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held virtually 6–9 January 2021. The pieces, Fabric of Lifelines and Sea of Lifelines, are digital prints that are part of a series exploring the human condition, created from random sampling of US mortality data from the year 2007.