Kerry Mitchell

Kerry Mitchell (born 1961) is an American artist known for his algorithmic and fractal art, which has been exhibited at the Nature in Art Museum,

Artwork Mitchell was inspired by a 1985 article on the Mandelbrot set. Alongside his technical career, Mitchell works on algorithmic art. He ascribes his artistic awakening to a 1985 article in Scientific American on the Mandelbrot set, explaining: The artist Janet Parke notes that in the manifesto, Mitchell suggests that fractal art cannot be made by a computer alone, and that not everyone who has a computer can necessarily make good fractal art. Instead, she explains, Mitchell is arguing that the artist's creative process is needed to inject elements such as the considered selection of colours and gradients, the merging of multiple layers, and decisions on composition such as by zooming in to a fractal.

Mitchell also prepared tutorials on how to create fractal art with tools including Ultra Fractal. In 2011 he served on the panel of the "Fractal Art Contest".

Exhibitions, collections Nature in Art Museum, Gloucestershire, 2007 The Bridges Conference, 2015 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), 2015-2016

Works

Books Selected Works (self-published with Lulu.com), 2009.

Papers Fractal Art Manifesto, 1999 Introduction to Ultra Fractal version 2, 2001 Using Ultra Fractal as a Drawing Tool, 2001 Techniques for Artistically Rendering Space-Filling Curves A Statistical Investigation of the Area of the Mandelbrot Set, 2001 Rendering Fractal Images using Photographs, 2001 Modeling Vortical Flows Fractal Tessellations and the Pythagorean Theorem Sequences and Patterns Arising from Mancala on an Infinite Board Toward a Chaotic World View Transcendental Signature Sequences Fun with Chaotic Orbits in the Mandelbrot Set Spirolateral Images from Integer Sequences Fun with Whirls