Mapping the Wild Pendulum

Mapping the wild pendulum:is the image evolving? : Mapping the wild pendulum: is the image evolving? Ars est celare artem. –Ovid (art is to conceal Art.)


from chaos comes order. : from chaos comes order. from order, chaos.


what is chaos art? a description. : what is chaos art? a description. “Somewhere between our favorite dimensions of length, width, and height, the natural phenomenon of the fractal takes place. A fractal is a pattern of self-similarity; any part of the pattern can be extruded and magnified and will look like the whole. Look around and you will likely see a fractal: I see them in the stucco that decorates my house, and in bolts of lightning. Where fractals occur, chaos often does, too. Benoit Mandelbrot wrote the formula that allowed us to see the art of chaos via fractals. To generate a fractal, apply a simple feedback formula or algorithm to the numbers located on the "Mandelbrot Set", a region of the complex number plane. Plot the result. Any fractalnaut can create stunning organic-looking art in this manner.” Jessie Geitl


man is the measure of all things. – Pythagoras : The ArtHum curriculum delivers a journey through medium. From building to canvas, we travel through ways in which the artist renders experience of natural and cosmic order. Over time the question of what constitutes truth in art becomes paramount. In our modern era, the artist releases the image from geometric order. Sculpture and painting break the confines of representational reality. No convention is sacred. What if art’s evolution lies within the measure of reality itself? man is the measure of all things. – Pythagoras


where did i start? what moves me? : where did i start? what moves me? technology yields to the imagination. reality becomes realer than real. however, method remains, whereby artist negotiates image through medium. computer programs like apophysis and terragen produce an image upon theory alone. without human eyes and hands, a creator bestows an image dependent upon three pre-ordained properties: it is sensitive to its starting point. it reproduces by repetition of the system. in the long term, it is unpredictable. what will i become?


Slide8 : Featured works and images: Slide 1. Title inspired from Itzhak Bentov’s Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness. Destiny Books: 1988. Jones, Damien. “April Pond.” Available from http://www.fractalus.com/gallery/image/ april-pond/?page=1;js=1;gallery=best. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Slide 2. Image available from http://www.e3-inc.com/images/1.jpg. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Anonymous. Image available from http://www.sgeier.net/fractals/flam3/fractals/ Wave.jpg. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Spiral sketches may be found from http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20040172972-0-large.jpg; http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook05/spiral_08.gif. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Slide 3. Gietl, Jessie. Full text available from http://www.jessiegietl.com/theorypage.html. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Slide 5. Floorplan of Amiens interior. Available from https://courseworks.columbia.edu/. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Heda, Willem Claesz. Still Life with Oysters: 1613. Rembrandt van Rijn, Aristotle contemplating a Bust of Homer: 1653. Monet, Claude. Impression Sunrise: 1873. Anonymous. Waves Apophysis Fractal Flame: 2007. Slide 7. Anonymous. Various Apophysis Fractal Images: 2007. Available from http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Blade_Apophysis_Fractal_Flame.jpg/780px-lade_Apophysis_Fractal_Flame.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Blade_Apophysis_Fractal_Flame.jpg&h =600&w=780&sz=52&hl=e&start=43&um=1&tbnid=3mg9pReM-6IO4M:&tbnh=109&tbnw=142&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwater% 2Bstar%2Bfractal%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN. Accessed 10 Dec 2007. Johansen, Klaus. Blue Dunes: 2007.