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Artist Statement:
The theme of my work is
complexity. Most of the
natural objects around us
display an amazing visual
complexity. The bark of a
trunk, a rocky cliff, the
surface of a planet all show
lush details and omnipresent
fractal structures, what makes
their visual richness and
beauty.
The limitations of traditional
art media have always made it
difficult for artist to
capture this characteristic
feature of our visual
experience. In contrast, the
power of algorithmic and
generative techniques allow to
produce highly elaborate
abstract images. The main aim
of my work is to explore this
amazing richness of patterns
and structures, in an attempt
to capture the essence of
visual complexity.
The technique I have been
developing can be called
"pattern piling". Copies of a
simple pattern are created at
various size scales and are
merged together. This
technique allows to produce
images so complex that they
could never have been
imagined, let alone realized,
by a bare human mind. Each of
them forms a little abstract
world, an algorithmic world,
where shapes and colors are
combined according to simple
rules, yielding rich
structures in which the
observer's eye can wander and
get lost....
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Samuel Monnier Biography:
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28
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Male
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Computer Art
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| Your Personal Biography |
Samuel Monnier was born in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland in 1980. He took an interest in both computer and physics at an early age. In 1995, he became interested in fractal and algorithmic art and wrote basic programs to draw fractals on a computer. Three years later, he began implementing algorithms using Ultra Fractal. In the year 2000, he wrote his first algorithm working with the principle of "pattern piling", on which all of his recent works are based and which define his style. Perfecting the algorithms represents an important part of his artistic expression.
He has always enjoyed the paintings of Paul Klee and Gustav Klimt and their influence can be seen throughout his compositions. Ethnic art is also a source of inspiration for the patterns incorporated into his digital creations.
He is a well known personality in the fractal art community, and has served as a juror for several fractal art contests. One of his work has notably been featured in an exhibition organized for the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid.
In 2008 he obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is currently working in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. |
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