The Garden of Attractors is a line of artistic research that explores the connection between the human psyche and chaotic attractors. An attractor is a system that continually replicates a pattern, but with slight variations each time. Eventually, the accumulation of these variations leads to a sudden change of state, known as a bifurcation, in the behaviour of the entire system.
Attractors
The psychological research revisited these paradigms, starting from concept of C.G.Jung’s archetype to the idea of repetition compulsion. For this reason, attractors can represent psychic dynamics that we unconsciously tend to repeat until they evolve into other dynamics changing our lives.
Random Walks
The project then evolved into an original mode where I manually intervene during the development of the attractor by intervening on fly on the generation. The metaphor is that of a craftsman who manually intervening on the rotating lathe, searching for the form that best represents that emotional dynamic.
Biomorphs are explorations of fractal space by Julia Set (after the French mathematician Gaston Julia) in search of organic-appearing forms (“digital life”). The research focuses on the construction of great complexity on the basis of the continuous iteration of elementary rules. These are the processes underlying organic life (DNA) and intelligence.
A video on the process of building complexity
