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Strange Attractors by Kyra Ocean + Sarah Caluag
Widget Art Gallery, Nov 23–Dec 23, 2013
Mobile: http://www.chiarapassa.it/wag/mobile/
Tablet: http://www.chiarapassa.it/wagipad/mobile/
About the Exhibition
Clint Sprott (b. 1942) is a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the 1990s, he used his own software to generate several hundred “strange attractor” images. For this exhibition, Kyra Ocean and Sarah Caluag have isolated ~150 of these forms (originally created 1996–99) and placed them inside the Widget Art Gallery.
Untitled by me (2012). Created as a GIF/t for Bea Frenderman in Anthony Antonellis’ secret-Santa style gift exchange, GIF Wrapping!
Earlier today, I posted this on WWWTXT:
I’ve never programmed in C, I’ll let you know how it works out sometime in 2013. ☯90FEB
Afterwards, I set out to find the poster and see if he had ever learned C. He turned out to be Internet pioneer Bob Munck! Here’s his response:
Hi Kyra,
I wrote a bunch of C++ for my first web site, for DARPA in 1994 (it was the third government site and among the first couple hundred total). I was at the time deep in the Ada community, and C++ was so irrational by contrast that I flat-out hated it. Nowadays I write mostly PHP code and am resigned to the horrors of C-like languages.
Incredibly, he worked as a manager (aka the heavy) at the original Hypertext project at Brown University from 1967–73. He first logged into the net in the Fall of ‘72 [41 years ago!] and, although now retired, still responded to my email within an hour of receiving it.
It’s these moments that make me realize WWWTXT has a long life ahead. Thank you, Bob!
> TURBO.data ▋by me (2012). A small experiment.
Our current exhibition at Widget Art Gallery, Strange Attractors, involves the graphic creations of physicist Clint Sprott. In 1993, he published a book encouraging anyone to create their own (Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos, sample illustrations above).
The first page is Why This Book is For You, here’s an excerpt:
Art and science sometimes appear in juxtaposition, one aesthetic, the other analytical. This book bridges the two cultures. I have written it for the artist who is willing to devote a modicum of effort to understanding the mathematical world of the scientist and for the scientist who often overlooks the beauty that lurks just beneath even the simplest equations. If you are neither artist nor scientist, but own a personal computer for which you would like to find an exciting new use, this book is also for you.
As you progress through the book, you will gradually develop a very sophisticated computer program. Each step is relatively simple and brings exciting new things to see and explore. Alternately, you can use the accompanying disk immediately to begin making your own collection of strange attractors.
Always remember to set a custom logout message on your terminal:
Download: https://gist.github.com/softdetours/87c0d293c9ff233c9078c7d822111db4