[comp.graphics] The Fractal Cosmos

siggraph@pioneer.arpa (Siggraph) (09/29/87)

University of California at Santa Cruz

The Fractal Cosmos

Sponsored by
Division of Natural Sciences, UCSC; Division of Arts, UCSC;
University California Extension, Santa Cruz; Friends of the Arts;
Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH; co-sponsored by IBM Corporation

The University of California at Santa Cruz invites you to share an
exciting and unusual presentation that celebrates the relationship
between an active area of scientific research and modern art forms.
Structures of unseen complexity and beauty, their challenge to
prevailing scientific conception, and in performance, the newly
created overlap with the visual arts.

From Mountains to Music
Richard Voss, Physicist, IBM Research, renowned for fractal landscapes
and planets

Computer Graphics Faces Frontiers of Chaos
Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Professor of Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz and the
University of Bremen, author of "The Beauty of Fractals"

A Performance Interlude
Marci Javril, Choreographer; Rob Terry, JoAnn Gillerman, James
Gillerman, collaborators in the hi-tech art form of music/video/dance

Clouds and Beyond
Benoit B. Mandlebrot, IBM Fellow, IBM Research, Yale University, the
father of fractal geometry, author of "The Fractal Geometry of Nature"

A Performance Finale
Marci Javril & Collaborators

	Saturday, October 3, 1987	Sunday, October 4, 1987
	Santa Clara Convention Center	UC Santa Cruz Performing Arts Theater
	7:30 p.m.			7:30 p.m.

Tickets must be ordered in advance: $5 General, $3 Students
For Santa Clara Event call UCSC at Techmart (408)-562-5711
For Santa Cruz Event call University Extension (408)-429-2351
 [Note: Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH members get the Reduced Student rate
  by notifying the ticket agent.  They have a copy of our membership
  list and can check.  Regular ACM/SIGGRAPH membership is insufficient.]