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Strange Attractor, 1989
A fractal produced by feeding the results of three mathematical equations into those same equations again and again. The result of each of these equations can be plotted as a point in space.

 

Credits:
Stephan Meyers & Ellen Sandor, (art)n Laboratory
Special thanks to Dan Sandin and Tom DeFanti, Electronic Visualization Lab, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago

Media: PHSCologram rendering output to Cibachrome film, mounted on plexiglas

Software: Proprietary

Exhibitions:

  • Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • SIGGRAPH '92 Chicago
  • NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
  • Computer Museum, Boston, MA
  • Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
  • Images du Futur '92 Montréal
  • Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, Finland
  • Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
  • The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  • KAOS INC., Chicago, IL
  • Feature, New York, NY

Literature:

  • Science in Depth catalogue, NASA Ames & Museum, Computer Museum & Museum of Science and Industry
  • NASA Ames Science in Depth video documentary
  • Beyond 2000, international syndication, Sydney, Australia, Summer 1991 (video)
  • Csuri, Charles A., "Science in Depth" (article), IEEE Computer Graphics and applications, March 1991, pp. 10-12
  • CNN, Cable Network News, "Science and Technology" international syndication, 1990 (video)
  • Wild Chicago, local syndication 1990 (video)
  • Sobchack, Vivian, "A Theory Of Everything: Meditations On Total Chaos" (article), ARTFORUM, October 1990, pp. 148-155