Norton Starr | i |
 
last name: Starr
first name: Norton
birthday: June 18, 1936
birth-place: Kansas City, Missouri (USA)
Summary

Norton Starr is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics 
and Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics, Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

He does not identify himself primarily as a visual artist but as a mathematician using computer graphics to illustrate mathematical functions with variables and basic graphs within a spiral design. A lot of his artistic work was developed in 1972-1973, during a sabbatical taken at the computer center of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Many of his compositions illustrating functions of two variables have appeared in various texts in mathematics and in computer science.

Starr came to Amherst from MIT, where he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics, served as an instructor and received the Goodwin Medal for “conspicuously effective teaching.”

Named a full professor at Amherst in 1978, Starr has taught courses in advanced calculus, complex variables, probability, statistics and data analysis, among other subjects. He also taught a first-year seminar in computers and society.

Seven of his geometric works were included in the Herbert W. Franke Collections that were acquired by Kunsthalle Bremen in 2006.

Biography

1958 A.B. in Mathematics at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA.
1959 Member of the Mathematical Association of America.
Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1963 Member of the American Mathematical Society.
1964 Doctorate in Mathematics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
1966 Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College (Massachusetts) – Chair of the department from 1976 to 1979 and from 1984 to 1987.
1972-73 Developed an interest for computer graphics during a sabbatical from Amherst College while working at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
2009 Retired from Amherst College.
1974 Beauty in Science, Science in Art, Pennsylvania State University.
1975 PRINTOUT’, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College.
‘Third International Computer Art Festival’, CUNY, New York City.
‘Canadian Computer Show’, Toronto.
ACM ’75’, Minneapolis, MN.
1976 ‘National Prints and Drawings Exhibition’, Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College.
1976 ACM ’76, The Association for Computing Machinery Annual Conference’, Houston, TX.
1977 ICCH 3, The Third International Conference on Computing in the Humanities’, Waterloo, Ontario.
‘International Computer Arts Exhibition’, Tokyo.
1978 ‘Art and the Computer’, Worcester Art Museum.
Sixth New Zealand Computer Conference, Auckland.
1989 ‘Computer Art in Czechoslovakia and the World’, Palace of Culture, Prague.
Printmaking: at the speed of thought, The Print Club, Philadelphia.
1995 Henion Bakery Gallery, Amherst, MA.
2007 ‘Ex Machina – Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979’, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Comments
anonymous
posted almost 10 years ago
Greetings Norton and Irene. I have an aluminum tray I would like to add to your collection, Irene. Please give me an address where you can receive it. I hope you are both well and enjoying Kansas City. I loved our evening discussing educational media on the porch in Amherst. Best to you both. Michael Johnston
anonymous
posted about 9 years ago
Hello Norton- I remember this art very well! I have something I would like to email to you. Please provide me with your current email address when you have a chance. Best to you and Irene- David Boal (Amherst class of 78)
anonymous
posted over 3 years ago
Norton and Irene, this is Patrick Sullivan temporarily in Hadley and would love to communicate with you and Irene. Could you send me her current email address? Many thanks and best wishes, Patrick who worked with Irene for many years and eagerly read her recent family history account
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