2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
Artists
Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
Associate Professor of Data Science
Mathematics Department, CUNY College of Staten Island
New York, New York, USA
Statement
In my mathematical art I seek to reify the abstract, to make mathematical concepts and shapes available to touch, to trace, to twist and turn. To create physical artifacts meant for interaction to bring the complex closer and make the abstract concrete. Over many years, I have primarily worked with computer assisted techniques - laser cutting and 3d printing, and I am fascinated by art that hovers on the edge of the algorithmic.
Artworks
Following in the footsteps of Sol LeWitt's "Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes" from 1974, this is a complete survey of the incomplete open octahedra. Sharing the same symmetry group action - since cubes and octahedra are dual - the structure of the octahedron generates a total of 185 configurations following the construction principles in LeWitt's original piece: connected strict subsets of the edges in a wireframe of the solid, up to rotational equivalences.