GRUNDFORMER #1 – From Chaos to Form
An evening of lectures and conversation with artist Fatima Moallim and mathematician Magnus Aspenberg, exploring how form emerges from chaos.
GRUNDFORMER is a new lecture series that investigates the points of contact between art and science. Through dialogue between artists and researchers, moderated by representatives of the Northern Drawing School network, these events aim to develop a language that can extend across disciplinary boundaries, a language grounded in our shared experience and its underlying fundamental forms.
The evening will begin with an introduction to the concept of fundamental forms, followed by two lectures and a moderated conversation between the speakers and the audience.
The theme of the evening, “From Chaos to Form,” concerns the initial moment when the ever-changing chaos crystallizes into a meaningful and communicable form.
Our guides for this exploration are Magnus Aspenberg, senior lecturer in mathematics at Lund University, specializing in dynamical systems, chaos and fractals, and Fatima Moallim, a Malmö-based artist whose work includes performances in which the undefined presence of a space gradually emerges through drawn forms.
Northern Drawing School (NDS) is a Northern European network of art academies whose aim is to develop drawing and the practice of drawing, both within artistic education and academia, as a cross-disciplinary tool.
The representatives of NDS, who will also provide the introduction, are Samuel Nyholm, Professor of Illustration at HfK Bremen, and Adam Nilsson and Sofie Konradsson, cognitive scientist and art historian respectively, who serve as interdisciplinary coordinators at NDS.
