Aesthetics of Interdisciplinary: Art and Mathematics

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Interdisciplinary discussions on relations between mathematics, geometry, art, aesthetics, and artistic practice have a long history. These discussions are still active and relevant today: the relations of mathematics and art are investigated and discussed in international scientific journals, associations, and conferences. However, the basis for the discussion has often been mathematics. Our anthology aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between the mathematical and artistic approaches in the field, in which mathematical and artistic thinking and practice merge. The articles of the anthology bring to the fore the most significant current ideas and phenomena, which give a multifaceted and extensive snapshot of the field. The articles indicate how interdisciplinary approaches are applied in the research of various cultural and artistic phenomena. The discussions in the articles are related for example to the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, art history, art theory, artistic practice, cultural studies, ethno-mathematics, geometry, mathematics, new physics, philosophy, physics, study of visual illusions, and symmetry studies. The anthology introduces a new concept, the interdisciplinary aesthetics of mathematical art, through which the editors explain the manifold nature of the aesthetic principles intertwined in these discussions.