Katrin Leschke, Chloe Aligianni, Lee Boyd Allatson, Jenny Hibberd, Andrew Johnston
This film was created as a lens into the Minimal Surfaces Artists'
Views collaborative project led by Dr. Katrin Leschke and the
University of Leicester. Three artists - musician Lee Boyd Allatson,
choreographer Chloe Aligianni and multidisciplinary artist Jenny
Hibberd were invited into the world of minimal surface theory and
asked to respond to the research with an artist's mindset. In the
area of surface theory, computer graphics already allow to show
images of the work, however, the deeper beauty of a mathematical
surface often appears for a mathematician from its context in
mathematics: the question we want to address in this project is how
to communicate this deeper understanding of mathematics to
non-experts. We sought to explore the intersections between two
seemingly opposing worlds and reveal a complex theory in a more
accessible way. The film depicts the maths and arts behind the
project and offers a glimpse into this meeting of disciplines.