The Mat is a Generalization
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The Mat is a Generalization is a computational performance program by the goth-influenced mathematical ensemble Vampire Welcome Mat.
Tribute to Bela Lugosi
The work is a tribute to Bela Lugosi.
Critical response
Math critic and known fabulist Karl Jones named Vampire Welcome Mat as his favorite performing mathematical ensemble of 2020, calling The Mat is a Generalization "an extraordinary and heart-felt tribute to the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski."
Commission
The work was commissioned by math connoisseur and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian while visiting New Minneapolis, Canada, where most of the ensemble members reside.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimes against mathematical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- New Minneapolis, Canada
- Vampire Welcome Mat