[ISEA94] Artist Statement: Delle Maxwell & Tamara Munzner — Outside In

Artist Statement by Delle Maxwell

“Outside In” is the result of collaboration between mathematicians, programmers, and designers. We developed a great deal of custom software in addition to Silvio Levy and Tamara Munzner (the other two directors), thanks to Nathaniel Thurston, Stuart Levy, David Ben-Zvi, Daeron Meyer, and all of the other contributors. geom.uiuc.edu/docs/outreach/oi.  See related paper ‘Inside Out’ by Delle Maxwell.

Excerpts from first scene of Outside In, an award-winning 20 minute video showing how to turn a sphere inside out without poking holes or creasing it, bringing advanced topology to a broad audience with computer animation. [source: YouTube]

  • Tamara Munzner (USA) is currently in the PhD program at Stanford University, where she received a BS in computer science in 1991. In the intervening years she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center’s public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/bio.html
  • Delle Rae Maxwell (USA). Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.M. Visual Studies at the Architecture Machine Group, 1983. Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Hamburg, West Germany. Studied graphic design and painting, 1974-1975. Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A. Textile Design, 1974. Track record: Computer graphics for book cover image design for the Princeton University Press, 1991-1994. Icons and window graphics for Workspace in 3.2 Software Release and continuing to the Indigo Magic Desktop for Silicon Graphics, 1989-1995. PDI, 1985-1988 Pacific Data Images (PDI), Sunnyvale, CA. Worked as a computer animator. Clients included ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, and TBS. NHK, 1983-1985 NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Tokyo, Japan. Animated the computer-generated newscaster “Dr Holon” for the year-long special program series “Warnings from the 21st Century.” http://www.dellerae.com