You are invited to the opening reception of my first solo exhibition! Location: The Art Gallery at Eissey Campus Palm Beach State College 3160 PGA Boulevard Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 (view on Google Maps) Time & Date: Wednesday, February 16, 5-8pm Cost: Free and open to the public For More Information: Call 561-207-5015 or visit www.palmbeachstate.edu/artgallerypbg.xml The exhibition runs from February 16 to March 25, 2011. Here is a paragraph from the print invitation: Using the computer as his primary [Read More...]

Recently I read about, and then watched, Casey Reas’ Process Compendium 2004-2010 on Creative Applications Network. I loved the way he characterized a generative system: “An Element is a simple machine that is comprised of a Form and one or more Behaviors. A Process defines an environment for Elements and determines how the relationships between the Elements are visualized.” This sketch could be described in this paradigm as follows:

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.

In early November, I will be giving a talk during a special session on Mathematics and the Arts at the AMS Sectional Meeting in Richmond, Virginia. My talk is titled, The Confluence of Chaos and Computation in Generative Visual Art, and this is the abstract: With the rise of accessible computation in the 1960s and 70s, practitioners of mathematics, statistics and physics were suddenly able to explore chaotic dynamical systems in new, powerful, and decidedly visual ways. At the same [Read More...]

Look what came in the mail last week! That’s my artwork on the cover (Faces of Chaos series) and inside is a book review I wrote on Symmetry in Chaos (2nd Edition) by Michael Field and Martin Golubitsky. This is the first time I have been published in a journal. I would like to thank Gary Greenfield, the very helpful and supportive editor, for the opportunity.