beweistheorie I

The first part of the beweistheorie cycle explores turning points in culture in the beginning of the 20th century – modernism in art and foundational crisis in mathematics.

In spite of the different context of these events, they can be compared in terms of an impact to the basis of each field. As a result, art has significantly stepped forward by plenty of new directions but lost grounds of its definition and naming ("what is art"). At the same time similar questions arose, as it seemed, in the most defined field – mathematics. Trying to overcome paradoxes of set theory, mathematicians have developed different approaches to axiomatic systems what eventually made foundations of math uncertain and subjective.

Besides historical parallels, the work could be considered as an autonomous visual system. In this connection a key theme of the video could be described as a search for new methods of symbol construction transformed to rule systems.