The Rocket

Issue date: 2/24/06 Section: Entertainment

Media Credit: Karen Butler Biology major Matt Conaway takes some time to view the art at Professor Dailey's latest exhibit. The exhibit, which will feature elements of science along with art, began this week and will run through March 23.

Professor David Dailey's newest art exhibit, "Arts and Sciences," is now on display at the Martha Gault Art Gallery from February 20 through March 23. This is Dailey's first art exhibit.

"Arts and Sciences" is the idea of using both mediums and creating masterpieces from technology.

The statement, "Science and Art, like yin and yang, go back a ways together. Science sometimes pooh-poohs Art; in turn, Art taunts Science. Science sometimes idolizes Art..." can be seen when one first walks inside the door.

Dailey has taught mathematics, psychology, and computer science classes at different universities in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Alaska, New York, Massachusetts, and in Pennsylvania. His work has been hung in galleries in Colorado, New Mexico, and Massachusetts.

"He knew he had arrived as an artist when one of his works was actually stolen from a bar in Williamsport, Massachusetts." This statement is mentioned inside the gallery on the wall of his introduction. Dailey "was deconstructing things before Jacques Derrida learned how to spell Dada," which is a form of modern art.

One of the first questions he has about minimal in art, which intrigued his desires to create his art, was, 'Does art (or mathematics for that matter) really require infinitesimals or would a discrete universe suffice?'

Most of the work featured in the building is computer scanned creations from pen and ink original drawings.

Another memorable drawing is the creation of "Ama Noma Nakaki," a 300 dpi laser print, created in 1987. It is the portrayal of a Native American, being translated by a computer translator.

Some suggested works to see while visiting would be "Pop-corn," a large computer-generated image. A woven creation of a rubric is in the next section, which is entitled, "Where would education be without the Rubric?" It was just created in 2006, and features the title with several red yarn pieces of string, connecting together to other words, forming a web design.

Another unique exhibit is a row of different computers, which are set up in a classroom design layout, and each displays different works of art. The main computer at the front has quasi-modal music, which is provided by JavaScript with HTML, based on original samplings by R. Humphries from FreeSound project.

The next art exhibition will be the annual juried student art exhibition, with an opening reception on March 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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