Bring Fractal to Figurative Art

2013 Honorable Mention

Student: Wanyi Chen
Course: Independent
Medium: 2d Images
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Description: Fractal maybe the cutest subjects that captures both science and art's view. Yet most artworks concerning fractal are abstract digital art. In this series of multi-media artworks, I combine photos, digital paintings, fractal fires generated in a software called Apophysis, and also some images produced by me in Mathematica to create a flavor of figurative art that features fractal element.
(Artists' statement:) It's widely observed that the work of nature sometimes follows  fractal rules, such as the structure of plants and texture of landform. If we jump out from this scientific view, and embrace the aesthetic perspective of fractal fires, I find that they seem to convey a much broader image of concrete objects. When I first play around with fractal and generate a picture with some random parameters, I was so amazed that it looked so much like feathers seen under a microscope. And that's the beginning of everything you see here...

New Ethos

Students: Rachel Adam and Molly Hanson
Course: Curriculum and Instruction 209
Instructor: Erica Halverson & TJ Kalaitzidis
Medium: Infographic
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Description: Our final product shows how the collaborative and participatory qualities of “new ethos” combined with fluid rules and norms and distributed systems combine and overlap in many applications and web uses of the modern day world. Our visualization portrays this overlap with the branches and leaves located in between the main sections, and the reappearance of some application logos multiple times in various branch locations of “New Ethos”. Now complete, it is interesting to reflect upon the co-evolution of the design and the language we chose to use - a process in itself a representation of the “new ethos” of “new literacy”.