Artist's Statement

For six years I have been experimenting in the fuzzy overlap between art, mathematics, and programming. The computer is my canvas, and this is algorithmic artwork—a partnership mediated not by the brush or pencil but by the shared language of software. Seeking to extract and visualize the beauty that I glimpse beneath the surface of equations, I create custom interactive programs and use them to explore algorithms, and ultimately to generate artwork.

In the world of chaos, minute changes in initial conditions produce radically different results—the tension between order and chaos is almost constant. This tension is prevalent in my creative process, in three primary areas: 1) problem solving variously gives way to or overtakes aesthetic considerations; 2) simple instructions given to the computer lead to diverse and infinitely complex images; and 3) while the technology allows for prints of extremely high quality, detail, and longevity, “provenance” somehow does not belong to an original whose pixels do not degrade.

Art and mathematics, the right brain and the left, are inextricably linked in this work. My art depends on mathematics, yet simultaneously illuminates and unravels its beauty. I am the explorer who uncovers something extraordinary, bringing into view that which was always there to be discovered.

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