Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing
Stephen Goddard, curator
March 24, 2012–July 22, 2012
Gallery 318, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Cryptograph is organized in conjunction with the many celebrations taking place around the world in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing (1912–1954), the brilliant British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and pioneering computer scientist.

This exhibition draws from the Spencer’s permanent collections, creating new conversations between works and exploring many of the same questions that drove Turing’s research: finding meaning in patterns; and finding connections between mathematics and computing, intelligence, and natural form. Turing’s world-changing innovations include the Turing Machine, a conceptual machine that builds on the notion of the algorithm and lays the foundation of modern computing. Turing was also deeply involved in the idea of “Machine Intelligence,” and he developed a test for artificial intelligence that is still in use today. Late in his career Turing became fascinated with the field of mathematical biology, a field that explores the mathematical underpinnings of morphogenesis, the origins and evolution of biological form.

The exhibition is co-sponsored by and was conceived in consultation and collaboration with KU’s Information and Telecommunication Technology Center and the Biodiversity Institute.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Saul Chernick
Saul Chernick
Panagea, 2011
I.C. Editions, a division of Susan Inglett Gallery; Mike Ward; Hugh Stoneman; Paul Noble
Paul's Place, 2002
David Byrne
Charles Jeffries Bangert; Colette Stuebe Bangert
Albrecht Dürer; Johan Wierix
Melencolia, 1602
Charles Maurin
Le Géomêtre, circa 1900
Rohini Devasher
Bloodlines, 2009
Karen Hanmer
Butt Johnson
Andrew McLaren
Oswald Mathias Ungers
Morphologie: City Metaphors, 1982, printed 2011
Michael Winkler
Ligns, 2006
Xu Bing
Glen Baldridge
Double D's, 2009
Stephen Johnson
Hiroshi Kawano
Simulated Color Mosaic, 1973, Showa period (1926–1989)
Gilles Gheerbrant
title page, 1972
I.C. Editions, a division of Susan Inglett Gallery; Mike Ward; Hugh Stoneman; Paul Noble
A, 2002
Alex Dodge
Bruce Conner
Gilles Gheerbrant; Hiroshi Kawano
ART EX MACHINA, 1972, Showa period (1926–1989)
Charles Jeffries Bangert; Colette Stuebe Bangert
Gilles Gheerbrant; Frieder Nake

Events

May 5, 2012
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 6, 2012
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 12, 2012
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 13, 2012
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 19, 2012
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 20, 2012
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 26, 2012
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 318
May 27, 2012
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 318
June 4, 2012
Talk
1:15–2:30PM
Gallery 318
June 17, 2012
Activity
1:00–3:00PM
Gallery 317 Central Court, Gallery 318, Front Lawn
June 20, 2012
Screening
6:00–7:30PM
309 Auditorium
July 6, 2012
Workshop
1:50–3:20PM
Spencer Museum of Art - 307 Reception Room, Gallery 317 Central Court, Gallery 318

Resources

Documents