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\centerline{Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Arts Program}\vs

\centerline{\bf
Report to Board of Trustees}\vs

\centerline{October 25, 2013}
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1. Administration. Since January 2012 the SCGP Arts Program has been
without a Director. Exhibitions have been curated by free-lance
personnel, coordinated by the Advisory
Committee and administered by Elyce Winters. This was the situation
reported in May 2012 and it endures. Our attempts to recruit for an interim
half-time  position for this academic year never got off the
ground, reportedly because of bottlenecks in the campus Human
Resources administration. We are now following the Provost's
suggestion of searching for a shared Visiting Scholar position with the Art
Department. Together with John Lutterbie, the Art Chair, we
have drafted a job description (in brief, a 5-year appointment
at the Visiting Assistant Professor level, duties split 50-50
between Art and the SCGP), which has been submitted to Human
Resources for approval. We hope for a speedy resolution so
we can begin actively recruiting for  a September 2014
starting date.
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2. Meanwhile,  the SCGP Arts Program
Advisory Committee has continued, with the same
membership, their role in soliciting and screening
proposals for exhibitions, concerts and other arts-oriented 
activities. Current members are Stephanie Dinkins (Studio Art),
George Hart (free-lance computer scientist and sculptor),
John Lutterbie (Theatre Arts and Art)
Tony Phillips (Math, Chair) and 
Daniel Weymouth (Music).
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3. Recent exhibitions and events include

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\item  ``Nowhere differentiable,'' a show of fractals in traditional African Art (Stephanie Dinkins, curator), with a lecture by the Ethno-mathematician
Ron Eglash from RPI. (February 2013)
\item  ``Paths: charting, navigating and bridging'' (Alastair Noble, curator) with a lecture by the artist W. Bradford Paley. (April 2013)
\item ``Dance your Dissertation'' a talk with video {\em Cutting
Sequences on the Double Pentagon} by Diana Davis. Her  video won the Physics and Math category of the 2012 ``Dance Your PhD'' competition, sponsored by 
{\em Science} and TED. This event was paired with a concert by
Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev (mezzo-soprano), Andrey Tchekmazov (cello) and
Leon Livshin (piano). (July 23)
\item ``Science and Metaphor: At Play,'' a workshop on science and 
poetry led by the Canadian poet Alice Major (September 18). This
event was organized by Prof. Alfred Goldhaber (Physics) and was
coordinated with a talk by Ms. Major at the SBU Humanities Institute.
\item ``Euclid's Kiss,'' Geometric Sculptures of George Hart,
currently on display. 
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4. Concerts. 
Weekly recitals were organized during last summer's SCGP Graduate Summer
School and the Simons Workshop. We plan to continue them next summer,
with the help of pianist Leon Livshin and jazz trombonist
Ray Anderson (Music), who 
plan
programs, recruit fellow artists and also perform.

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Respectfully submitted,

Tony Phillips, Arts Program Advisory Committee Chair



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