One of the strongest images from my BFA exhibition’s 4×4 grid of strange attractors, Dance has become one of my favorite artworks, and usually hangs in our living room. In 2008 it won second place at Palm Beach State College’s Photography & Digital Imagery Exhibition, and indirectly led to my first solo exhibition at that same gallery.

Dance by Nathan Selikoff. Variable size open edition print. 2004.

Dance at Process & Influence

Alluvial Fan II. 2011. Dimensions variable. Open edition print.

A second Alluvial Fan to go with the first.

Alluvial Fan I and II in situ at "Process and Influence"

A photograph of Alluvial Fan I and II in Process & Influence. See more photos from the opening.

Sprites by Nathan Selikoff. 2011. Dimensions variable. Open edition print.

Update: I finally rendered Sprites at high resolution and finished it for my solo exhibit, Process & Influence.

I found these intriguing lightning creatures hidden in the infinite possibilities of strange attractor space. This is still a test render, so please excuse the graininess.

It turns out there is an electrical phenomenon that happens high above thunderclouds, called a sprite. Here’s a real-world sprite imaged at 1,000 frames per second:

Nature is amazing!

3D Strange Attractor visualized in 3Delight with ray-marching shader

I started this in 2008 and hope to get back to it soon. Basically, I have computed a voxel approximation of a three dimensional chaotic dynamical system, and adapted a ray marching Renderman cloud shader used in the movie Contact to visualize the attractor via 3Delight. This is just work in progress, an attempt to capture the true volumetric, delicate and fascinating form of these generative artifacts.