Nathan Selikoff: Tiled Faces

Artist(s):

• Nathan Selikoff

Title:

Tiled Faces

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art

Creation Year:

2008

Category:

• Interactive & Monitor-Based

Artist Statement:

In my Faces of Chaos series, I seek to visualize a chaotic dynamical system, using a unique mapping of the Lyapunov exponent to the image plane. Tiled Faces is one result of this exploration, and its 1,024 images combine to reveal the “face” of the four-dimensional system’s chaotic behavior. This emergent figuration draws the viewer in, closer to the surface, where a myriad of individual “faces” is revealed. Because I approach the challenge of representing four dimensions from an aesthetic perspective, I am free to bring the underlying equations to light, to visually and intuitively understand them. Tiled Faces juxtaposes order and chaos, artistic sensibility and mathematical depth, within its pixels and pigments.