Documentation of blackboard activity: a merging of mathematics and art

by David Ng

CERN

Berkeley

Cambridge

Oxford

Stanford

Cambridge

“Since 2010, Spanish artist Alejandro Guijarro has been traveling to several Quantum Mechanics institutions across the globe. He photographs their blackboards that are filled with the mathematical scribblings of some of the greatest minds in the world. The photographer walks into each facility’s lecture halls and proceeds to snap shots of the blackboards without modifying the board or interfering with the original arrangement of the space. The ongoing series titled Momentum presents an honest look at the intellectual scrawls, some of which have been wiped away.”

By Alejandro Guijarro. Text by My Modern Met, via Stacy Thinx.