We are calling students of the Art and Design fields as well as independent Artists and Designers to participate in the Math Creations contest for Art, Design and Mathematics. The goal of the contest is new creative ideas based on mathematical concepts and their realization. It is organized by the special research fields “Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics” and “Raum - Zeit - Materie. Analytische und Geometrische Strukturen” in collaboration with IMAGINARY.Read more
New image gallery online
New image gallery online
Sep. 2, 2026
Visualisation of the Kolakoski Sequence, by Henriette-Sophie Lipschütz and Ulrich Reitebuch
For the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026 in Philadelphia, we invited mathematicians, artists, and students from around the world to share visually compelling works that showcase the diversity and creativity of contemporary mathematics.
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May. 25, 2016
The deadline for our MathLapse competition will be extended to June 14, 2016!
A first MathLapse-Festival will be organized at the IMAGINARY conference (IC16), where the winners will be announced and their MathLapse movies will be screened. It is not necessary to...Read more
Mar. 8, 2016
Today, The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering 2016 starts in Dakar, Senegal. The three-day NEF Global Gathering will showcase often underreported scientific progress in Africa, holding up the NEF Fellows as examples of the exceptional scientific potential and progress across Africa....Read more
Feb. 18, 2016
Today, the first mathematical shopping center opens in Heidelberg, Germany. The Mathematikon shops are integrated into the building complex called Mathematikon.
Together with mathematicians from 14 countries, IMAGINARY created the mathematical content and is also...Read more
Jan. 11, 2016
IMAGINARY has launched a new educational and artistic format called “MathLapse” to highlight the link between mathematics and real-world phenomena. The name MathLapse (ML) is inspired by the timelapse-technique in physics: By re-scaling time, phenomena are visualized which we cannot observe directly.
A ML is short, simple, self-contained, creative and...Read more