I have had the very good luck to have been in the right time and place to have made an original contribution to the young field of computer art. My artworks all issue directly from computer programs. Thus they represent examples of "algorithmic art" in (what I would say is) its purest form. Thus I am an Algorist. I believe that the peculiar process by which these works come into being represents a revolutionary event in the history of the creative process for the visual arts. (I have a rather technical thesis on that topic: Formal Logic and Self Expression.)
Most of the images you will see below were created during the six years I spent working at the Yale math department with Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry. Benoit originally hired me as a programmer, but we both soon discovered my unforeseen skills as a computer artist. This gallery illustrates my growth and development as both an artist and a technical practitioner of computer graphics.
As you will see, I am primarily a landscape artist. Mandelbrot refers to three eras of fractal landscapes: The Heroic Era is characterized by the wireframe images of Sig Handelman; this was in the very early days of computer graphics, when it was a heroic act just to get an image to appear on a monitor or a plotter. Richard Voss' images comprise the Classical Era when realistic fractal landscapes came into their own. My images comprise the Romantic Era, when aesthetics and artistic self-expression come to the forefront in fractal landscapes. My contribution to the body of fractal images has led Mandelbrot to credit me as being "the first true fractal-based artist." This is an honor I will be proud of far all my days.
Last Change: June 13, 1997