Lecture with Dr. Edward Teller on February 3, 1979 at Miami Dade Community College North Campus. Nelson J. Diaz sitting in the front row (black and white shirt) with student Lucia Pumarada. (Copyright is available to the public for research and historical documentation) www.floridamemory.com
Nuclear bombs are weapons that could level cities to the ground and render entire countries inhospitable to humans. Commonly associated with mayhem and havoc, these weapons of mass destruction also serve as inspiration to artists to capture their unfathomable power and potential alternative uses.
Nelson J. Diaz is a prominent visual physicist, a MIT Press peer reviewer, and an artist committed to “recycling time through symbols and images”.
Through visual art, in-depth research, and a digital brush filled with empathy, Nelson J. Diaz went to create visual art pieces that blend humane and scientific elements together.
Nelson began his magnum opus in the 1980s, working on non-Euclidean geometry in art with his mind bent on bringing topology, physics, mathematical art representation, and various other disciplines together. As the artist expressed, his vision is to represent and possibly define Einstein’s dream of the unified field theory of everything.
Intrigued by the grand designs of doomsday weapons, the likes of Oppenheimer’s bomb and Edward Teller’s hydrogen bomb, Diaz sought to further his understanding of the topic through the works of Francis Bacon – the late, great Irish-born painter widely renowned for his exquisite style and “unsettling imagery”.
This MIT Published scholar peered deep within the abstract, subliminal messages hiding in Bacon’s works and, according to him, managed to gain fresh insights and another well of inspiration to draw from.
“A lesson with Francis Bacon forced me to see out of the software box” reads the title of one of Nelson’s latest works. In this publication, Nelson talks at length about this encounter, and how this inspired a new branch of his non-Euclidean geometry pieces.
As Nelson J. Diaz noted, this encounter was his formal introduction to Dr. Edward Teller and a lesson that helped Nelson break through the boundaries of his artistic expression, stating the following:
“I began using a supercomputer and FORTRAN 77 software in order to define a non-Euclidean geometry model using conformal mapping to create art. A series of twisted and curved space images was manifested and reflective to Einstein’s general and special relativity. It was my encounter with Dr. Edward Teller, “the father of the H-Bomb,” that led me to the artist Francis Bacon. It was a private lesson with the artist that forced me out of the box into my own visual world,” said Nelson.
Right: 1979-1981 drawing of a hydrogen bomb blast. Left: Dr. Teller at lecture. Bottom Left: Nelson J. Diaz with painting, Flora Sitting Next to Zero, W= 1/z transformation, 1984. (Holder, Nelson J. Diaz)
Nelson J. Diaz’s are comprehensively cataloged by MIT Leonardo Journal, a MIT-warranted online scientific journal dedicated to showcasing computer-influenced art, Diaz’s journeys through non-Euclidean geometry, and heaps of data related to the opuses of the world’s brightest minds.
More information about MIT Press Leonardo Journal is available on nelsondiazart.com.
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