Many traditional artists have embraced computer graphics to enhance representational depiction. Other digital artisans have employed these new capabilities to create previously unimagined visual abstractions. The variety of both the potential imagery and the virtual equipment for manipulating it is in effect inexhaustible. Fractal digital imagery is a relatively young yet already rich field. Though different from traditional art, this digital medium demands a well-developed esthetic sense. Mastery of an ever-evolving toolset permits results perfecting form, color, texture, and composition.

Michael explores undiscovered worlds of exotic scenery filled with exquisite shapes in colorful profusion. This journey into the wilds of magical fractal imagery is made possible by and is a reflection of the beauty of mathematics. These intricate designs serve as snapshots capturing panoramas from the limitless uncharted realms of inner space and often feature spirals speaking spiritually to us of infinity. Michael calls his geometric yet organic results “photoreal abstracts.”

BIOGRAPHY

Michael was born in 1950 in New Jersey. He has a BA in Philosophy from Sonoma State University, an MS in Computer Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. Michael has been developing software since 1973 and creating fractals since 1985. Michael’s images are held in private collections in California and Florida.

· San Diego County Fair E-Arts Exhibition, June 2004
· Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival, April 2004
· Artwork for music CD by Elivia Melodey, February 2004
· Avalon Gallery, San Diego, October and November 2003, January 2004
· Appointed to Board of Directors of San Diego Museum of Art's Artists Guild, November 2003
· Several images in a stock image catalog produced in England, autumn 2003
· San Diego Museum of Art’s Artists Guild’s Democratically Juried Exhibition, July 2003 (co-winner of People’s Choice Award)
· California Digital Exhibition at the San Diego Art Institute, July 2003
· San Diego Museum of Art’s Artists Guild’s Democratically Juried Exhibition, July 2002
· Images sold to a company that markets designs to apparel manufacturers, summer 1995
· Cover of textbook published by W.W. Norton, 1995
· Cyberfest '94, San Diego, autumn 1994

Michael is also a published poet, and has done original theoretical work in number theory, multivalued logic, physical chemistry, semantics-based information retrieval, and the statistical analysis of baseball.