Vincent Van Dongen

Statement

I obtained a PhD in computer sciences from Belgium in 1991. My thesis was on systolic and periodic arrays. I moved to Montreal to become a researcher between 1991 and 1997. In parallel, I've always been active in visual art, taking art classes at night while doing my PhD. Around 2020, I became interested in modular art and in particular aperiodic tiling and the so-called Ein-Stein problem. My studies in that field include the search for new tilings and their physical implementation into sculptures.

Artworks

LUV is a non-periodic tiling that makes use of 3 different tiles : L, U and V. The tiles are marked squares assembled with Hitomezashi threads. Tiles follows strict local rules that ensures non-periodicity. This work is the result of a parameterization of Ax tiling.

This is a lifted version of the hat monotile. The lifting creates some texture and a thickness to the tile. So, it becomes a wearable hat. One can tile with such an object. This will create a continuous surface on both sides with a non-periodic texture.