Named Dragon, after a famous depiction by Leonardo Da Vinci of an Ourobouros, these are the only slides I have left from a video installation that grenerated fractals from movement of dozens of fish in an stainless steel tank. Shown is the output monitor - several fish can be seen casting fractal patterns out into the visual space around them based on the movements of fin and tail. The Fractals were created using a video feedback loop and a video delay circut that could be adjusted to maximize the "flare" effect created by the fish by timing the length of delay to the relative movement of the fish in the tank.

This piece resulted in my joining the Vis-Viva program in engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 1996 for a year as the programs first Graduate student / artist in residence, under the guidance of Joe Cusumano.

* Vis Viva is Latin for "living force" and is the name given by the 17th-century philospher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to what later became known as kinetic energy.