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"Fractals Don’t Look Like Anything"

Alien Supplicant (2007) I go on a quaternion fractal kick for a few weeks almost every year. There’s something very special about these sculpted, rolled in Play-Doh, Tootsie Roll forms. I find them fascinating because…
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1 min 1

Hordes of Photoshop Jockeys

Hordes of Photoshop Jockeys (2000) This one is kind of an in-joke. Back when I used to post my images on Usenet on alt.binaries.pictures.fractals (which were either — pick one — the good old days…
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3 min 2

Deep in the Mines

Deep in the Mines 1 (2000) Fractals sometimes transcend their parameters. If they are art — and I’m guessing that most of us think they are — then our images reflect some deeper part of…
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6 min 3

Putting the Art in Fractal Art

Chump Change (2006) The way I saw my art changed when I started working with a master printer to make poster-sized Giclees of my own work. I began to see my images on the wall…
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4 min 1

Homage to Andy Warhol

Homage to Andy Warhol (2000) From artrepublic: In 1960 Warhol began to replicate a range of mass-produced images, beginning with newspaper advertisements and comic strips before turning to packaging, dollar bills and more. He is…
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2 min 1

Visual Encryption

Smashing with style Digital Dynamite Filter of Frenzy Ripped-off beyond recognition and left for dead “No, your Honour; I didn’t do anything. I just took the dog for a walk until it was dead.” Together,…
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2 min 2

Homage to Alexander Calder

Homage to Alexander Calder (1999) To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.—Alexander Calder From the National Gallery of Art: Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture…
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4 min 1

Homage to Niels Bohr

Homage to Niels Bohr (2004) From Nobelprize.org: In the autumn of 1911 [Bohr] made a stay at Cambridge, where he profited by following the experimental work going on in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir J.J.…
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1 min 0

Fractal Trick or Treat?

The Familiar (1999) I’ve always been more interested in using fractals to push ideas rather than to serve as decorations Still Life with Dracula (2002) and this approach has sometimes proven very handy at Halloween…
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2 min 3

Jar Jar Agonistes

Jar Jar Agonistes (2006) Gollum is way better.I evoke birthday blight and snakesto haul home. I stoke vitrioland hollow men to guess the price of my money pit. Sad to bepitied more than Lieberman orother…
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4 min 3

The Robot’s Renaissance

Although most labels in the art world have a number of interpretations, I define algorithmic art as artwork made with algorithms. An algorithm is a series of instructions. Usually these instructions are computer commands and…
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1 min 1

Tiffany Lamp Gone Bad

Tiffany Lamp Gone Bad (2001) May West liked good salmon.Her bedroom had dark panelling and lava lamps. Over her tables hungracks of critics behind the bar where bad service is largely blamedon Texas. Her rental…
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1 min 1

Unattainable

Unattainable (1999) An impossible self help questionwill waitcheck outbe homeunless you are a fan of stupid networks. One of the tightestgoing nuclear photographs cuts waste and overlooks ad agencyethics. To understand more toast the Broadway…
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6 min 1

Mandelbrot Among the Gypsies

Mandelbrot Among the Gypsies (2001) Gaston Julia, recovering from injuries caused by a hospital, was named king of the gypsies in 1917. He had darned some socks for corpses and driven a hawthorn stake through…
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3 min 2

Probe This!!

Neptune Probe (1998) Ganymede Probe (1998) These heavenly bodies are still in good standing after astronomers recently convened to decide who would be voted off the cosmic island. Everyone held its slot in space, and…
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4 min 1

The other machine

It sits there, quietly. Unused but waiting. Sometimes while working on the fractal machine, I look over at it. Our eyes meet. I say nothing and return to the fractal machine. Before I discovered fractals…
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9 min 13

Fractal Politics

Portrait of George W. Bush (2004) Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.—Theodor Adorno A poem that calls us from the other side of a situation of extremity cannot be judged by simplistic notions of “accuracy”…
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4 min 15

Eye of the Beholder?

It may now be said that an object becomes, or fails to become, a work of art in direct response to the inclination of the perceiver to assume an appreciative role.—Victor Burgin, “Situational Aesthetics” Who…
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