{"id":2562,"date":"2011-02-20T00:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2011-02-20T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T05:38:37","slug":"presenting-the-information-hallway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"presenting… The Information Hallway!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still so sure it’s a better place to introduce people to fractal art than the (now old-fashioned) information highway<\/em><\/a> –the internet?<\/p>\n

The recently released photos of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest Exhibition really underline what I’ve been saying for years:\u00a0 no offline anything can compare with the internet for introducing people to fractal art and showcasing the best examples.<\/p>\n

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BMFAC exhibition, Hyderabad, India, 2010, (photo published by Esin Turkakin)<\/p><\/div>\n

And the photos also emphasise something<\/a> I’ve been saying: offline exhibitions are always tied to the personal agendas of the organizers and sponsors and the artwork (and the audience) suffers for it.\u00a0 At least they suffer until they go home and start searching the information highway.<\/p>\n

The Information Hallway<\/em>, on the other hand, as expensive and complicated as it is to bring about , is so ineffective in every way.\u00a0 It’s limited in what it shows: 25 works chosen not from all that the fractal art world has to offer but from what those who cared to enter the contest thought would impress the eclectic (dream team) of judges.\u00a0 Right off the bat the exhibition is behind the eight ball because, by design, they must passively attend to only what the contestants give them.<\/p>\n

And who’s walking down The Information Hallway <\/em>anyhow?\u00a0 Math professors and other greats of this highly esteemed and highly un-artistic group of professionals.\u00a0 And as I mentioned once before, these people don’t have internet access or haven’t seen any fractal graphics before?\u00a0 They’re hardly the type of people an advertising campaign would target to promote fractal art, or any other art genre.\u00a0 Benoit Mandelbrot might have had a (passing) interest in the artistic application of fractal geometry, but that was years ago when fractals were fresh and revolutionary.\u00a0 The world of mathematics professionals is not the place to sow the seeds of fractal art –the art world is!\u00a0 Should that surprise you?<\/p>\n

Jeremie Brunet<\/a> (aka “bib”) recently had a (somewhat low-key) exhibition of his fractal artwork in a gallery in Paris and I think his approach was categorically better and about as effective as any offline fractal art event could be.<\/p>\n

Jeremie displayed:<\/p>\n