Grey Point Fractalism
The "Grey Point Fractalism" exhibition was planned the friday, October 7th, 1983 by Olivier Moreau, Ferguson Neville and Steven Smith during a huge party in the UBC student's stronghold : 4615 W 15th Ave, in the Grey Point part of town !  Ferg was studying Art, Steve lived in Math and Computers, and Olivier was in General Science and Art. Home computers were just available (Apple II and Commodore 64) and Mandelbrot's fractal were very confidential at that time. An exhibition mixing classical painting and computer generated graphics around recursive paterns and themes was our objective. We were welcomed in july 84 at the Unit/Pitt Gallery in a large premise on Powell Street in Gastown, Vancouver. The exhibition's master piece was surely our Apple II and Commodore 64 generating fractals in real time, there wasn't many personal computers around yet. 
 The Gallery's door with the poster of the exhibition.  That was crude ! | By nowadays standard the images are not very impressive but let's not forget we didn't have "Fractal Generators" and fast machines. We were writing programs that runned nights and days to produce one image... And then we took photos of our screens because color printing was not yet an option ! Beside fractals, I had several paintings with scientific or sci-fi inspiration. For instance "Stereo Rainbow" must be watched with a "stereoscope" made of fancy mirrors to see it in 3D. This art piece was created as an Illustration for a term paper in class of cognitive psychology...  This painting is full of 3D tricks ! For instance can you guess which is the biggest marmite ? Well the further one looks bigger but it's exactly the same size as the front one... On the other hand, the front locomotive seems bigger, yet it's another illusion ! |