2023 Bridges Conference Art Exhibition

Manish Jain

Artists

Manish Jain

Teaching Professor

Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar

Gujarat, India

ccl@iitgn.ac.in

https://ccl.iitgn.ac.in/

Statement

Prof Manish Jain is a teaching associate professor at IIT Gandhinagar and heads the Center for Creating Learning. The Center has been working to transform STEM education in India and communicate Science and Maths in an engaging manner to the public since the last 7 years. It has conducted workshops for over 20,000 teachers and developed over 1000 activities and models and has reached over 5 lakh teachers and students. Also, the online programs have received an online viewership of over 2 crore.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Integration Machine '

Integration Machine

6.45 x 27.56 cm

Acrylic sheets, Wood, Aluminum, Rubber Ball, Pen, Plastic gears, 3D Printed parts, telescopic channel, Pressure roller of the printer, Stepper motor, Arduino, Breadboard, Wire, Paper

2023

Additional info

The integration machine is an interactive work of art showcasing the links between math and making. Assembled from easily available material, it has three main parts - a tracer, a ball resting on a rotating disc, and a pen mechanism. Using the tracer, we track each point on the input function. The tracer positions the ball along a diameter of a disc that is moving at a fixed angular speed. The ball is free to rotate at a speed controlled by its distance from the center of the disc. The ball controls the rotation of a follower cylinder which, in turn, sets the slope of an arm with a pen. Since the slope at each point of the output is determined by the input function, it is the integral.