“Come se una sorgente ultima dell’esistenza
si rendesse fugacemente visibile […]
spingendoci a trasformare noi stessi
accanto a quello che rimane l’inaccessibile.”
– M.Blanchot, nella prefazione a
“Genio e follia” di K.Jaspers.
Autoritratto formale ridicolo.
Corpo, cravatta, nodi.
Selezione di immagini da video.
Performance, 2022.
Formal ridiculous self portrait.
Body, tie, knots.
Selection of images from video.
Performance, 2022.
Annodare: allacciare, congiungere, intrecciare, legare.
Annodare: allacciare, congiungere, intrecciare, legare.
Allacciare: chiudere, abbottonare, affibbiare, agganciare.
Congiungere: associare, connettere, raccordare, riunire.
Intrecciare: aggrovigliare, attorcigliare, avviluppare, intricare.
Legare: cingere, stringere, incatenare, mettere insieme, unire.
Chiudere: serrare, finire, terminare, concludere, ultimare.
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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, matematico del KTH Royal Institute of Technology di Stoccolma, ispirato dalla cravatta indossata dal Merovingio di Matrix, ha calcolato 177.147 modi possibili per annodare questo accessorio:
Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson knots
“We extend the existing enumeration of neck tie-knots to include tie-knots with a textured front, tied with the narrow end of a tie. These tie-knots have gained popularity in recent
years, based on reconstructions of a costume detail from The Matrix Reloaded, and are explicitly ruled out in the enumeration by Fink and Mao (2000). We show that the relaxed tie-knot description language that comprehensively describes these extended tie-knot classes is context free. It has a regular sub-language that covers all the knots that originally inspired the work. From the full language, we enumerate 266.682 distinct tie-knots that seem tie-able with a normal neck-tie. Out of these 266.682, we also enumerate 24.882 tie-knots that belong to the regular sub-language.”
Dan Hirsch, Meredith L. Patterson.
Upstanding Hackers Inc.
thequux@upstandinghackers.com
Ingemar Markström.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
ingemarm@kth.se
Anders Sandberg, Oxford University.
anders.sandberg@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Jožef Štefan.
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
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