Fractal art and postmodern society

ABSTRACT

Among the different kinds of new computer arts, fractal art is one with a strong mathematical background. As an interdisciplinary genre, fractal art has been attracting the attention of artists, mathematicians and computer programmers in order to promote this newly generated algorithmic art. Fractal art on account of its young age, parallel to rewarding new creative works of art, is also experiencing steps of promotion itself gradually. While it is easy to study other phenomena by rattling off their described properties, here the study of fractal art requires a closer look at today's idea of art and its relation to society. In other words, the philosophy of fractal art has not yet frozen due to its still-continuing progression and thus might need further sociological investigations. This article discusses the aesthetic and artistic aspects of this kind of art. In this order, having described the mathematical background of fractals and given a short exposition of today's postmodernism, this paper will focus on the role of fractal art and its innovations in contemporary art's inspiration process.

KEYWORDS:

• fractal art
• postmodern society
• computer art
• mathematic art
• chaos theory
• fractality