“I’m the decider!”
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.–Lord Acton
The recent revelatory leak that a pre-sorted “winners page” was being built by the director of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest leads to an inescapable conclusion. The competition is indeed a one man show. The director, Damien M. Jones, appears to be …
How is the judging actually done?
I’ve always assumed that in order to give every submission an equal chance of winning, the judges independently viewed the submissions and then chose the ones that they thought ought to be included in the exhibition. The choices of all the judges would then be tabulated and the images ranked …
Verdict first. Trial later.
I showed in my last post what OT found: a winners page for the 2009 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest that displayed current contest entrants placed into three categories: exhibition winner, alternate, and honorable mention. How could some entrants already have won when the contest does not close …
And the winner is…
Elvis’ alien clone better move over. What is one to make of this?
Just by accident, OT wandered into the “winners” page of the current (and ongoing) 2009 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest and found it active and showing thumbnails of entries listed as exhibition winners, alternates, and honorable mentions.
You can see for …
Several questions
Is the entire digital art medium just too new and different for the art gallery world? Has the art world, that great destroyer of cultural norms and traditions, found a free-flowing, anarchic, internet-based digital medium too ab-normal and un-traditional to dive into? Is it because digital art can’t be cornered by track lighting and …
Swine Flu by Luke Jerram
I think Tim’s recent observations that fractal art is about to undergo into a new Phase Two paradigm shift are on target. Fractal art will never evolve beyond a curious, trippy, decorative craft until it moves away from being defined by software and instead starts thinking and acting …
One of these is from the Museum of Bad Art
It occurred to me while browsing some of the greatest art of the 20th century to ask this question: Why don’t we see more art like this today?
For instance, it ought to be very easy to imitate the famous drip paintings of Jackson Pollock with fractal …
Could this work be described as …Fractal?Admiral Otto Von Howitzerhead by Kris Kuksi 2009
Samuel Monnier, writing at Algorithmic Worlds, his new website – gallery – and blog, said some very interesting things about the fractal nature of sculptures done by Kris Kuksi. Sam said that Kris Kuksi’s scuptures “are very interesting examples of non computer-generated …
Editor’s Note: This is a guest posting by Rich Jarzombek.I’m always fascinated by what I call “The Infinite Powers” of fractals. Most fractalists know that the fractal computational process is iterative and therefore could go on to infinity but intentionally terminates when a programmed condition is reached so that an image existing at the …
Even my own homemade recipes leave me with an unsettled stomach. I used to get a thrill out of making some colorful lollipop of an image, but that stuff is for kids. If you still crave candy, then you’re still a kid too.Call it Decorative Art, or The Decorative Arts, it’s still the same old …
What? You didn’t know even know there was a Phase One? Well, let me begin there, then. At the dawn of fractal art.Phase One, the first stage of fractal art, has been oriented around software. The big developments in fractal art came from developments in the software that made it. True …
