Kickstarter

Update!: 002303200’s Kickstarter project passed its funding goal not too long ago. This has really been a monster massacre.
All excess funds will go into 002303200, to make more drawings, collect more information, and plan more projects based on the idea of employing and representing data and mathematical concepts in 2-dimensional works of art.
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Koch Snowflake Drawing (that will be on the greeting cards for the $75 reward):

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UPDATE!: Someone gave me the idea of including the decoder for the final piece in the reward for contributing for any original drawing (which will come with its own decoder). I've decided to do that (I just can't change it in the listing), because I want more people to get to see it in that format, I want to do more drawings that people will see, and when I get things printed it will be easier and less costly to order more than less.
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Greetings Tellurians,

Around age fourteen, a number of influences converged upon my thinker to produce the realization that a structure exists hidden inside everything. I was unable to express something as abstract as this awareness was, but I began to see structure everywhere; everything is somehow discretely crystalline.

I tried to encapsulate my experiences in poetry, but this was not enough. I needed to show people. So I spent four years devoted to studying how to map the world in visual media, i.e. drawing and painting.

It then dawned upon me that I needed another language so that I could communicate what I’ve been learning about the world, so I pushed my art practice to the background and began studying mathematics. Now as I continue to study both mathematics and visual arts, I begin to experiment with ways in which I can weave them together.

I’ve begun a series of drawings that serve as tiny, quiet, open places in which to think about mathematics while drawing. Right now they are purely experimental, and they feel honest, but my imagination far exceeds my present reach. One thing keeping me back is the need to explore data manipulation and representation through computer programs. My current technology is inefficient and involves burdens that prevent me from embarking on many intellectual journeys of which I conceive.

In gaining this initial funding I will be able to begin exploring more of the ideas I have for unifying mathematics and art. Specifically for this project, it will allow me to create a series of carefully planned out and hand drawn pieces, including a set of small drawings (approximately dozens) and four larger, ~14x14 in. drawings that will form a tetraptych, to be completed by the end of the year.

I’ve given the title 002303200 to the public manifestation of this and future projects to encourage an unavoidable visual presence. I have a vague dream of it becoming a well-defined system involving research, pure artistic practice, education, and any other relevant entity it may run into. Among many further projects that appeal to me is the creation of distinctly artistic, visual materials to aid students of mathematics, and particularly those with unique learning differences.

Your support will be appreciated in a deep, integrated manner, and be a vote for both these artistic and mathematical endeavors and also for individuals with Aspergers, who are everywhere struggling to find the language or mechanism by which they may share with you what they know or find beautiful in the world.

Sincerely,

Sami

For more/other information and to see more drawings, visit:
www.002303200.com

To keep up with progress of the project on more mobile planes:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/002303200/364621086905816
https://twitter.com/#!/002303200

Notes on Prints:
Prints will be made in black and white on high quality printing paper. 
These prints will be limited edition, meaning I am only reproducing them for this project and will be signing and numbering them.


Notes on Original Drawings:
The small drawings will be done over the course of 2012 as I work on the larger drawing. At the end of the year I will probably provide images of the entire set and those who contributed for a reward of an original drawing will contact me and they will go on a first come, first serve basis unless something special has been arranged with me through personal communication.

These drawings will be done on hot pressed water color paper, either Arches or Rives. They will all involve some level of mathematical content, drafts done in pencil, and finals done with pen and ink with wash elements.

I’ll be posting regularly on the 002303200 website, providing images of drawings being worked on and thoughts and ideas I have about each one.