Fractals: The Invisible World of Fractals Made Visible Through Theater and Dance

Fractals are patterns infinitely reiterating self-similar in shape. Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term in the 1970s but scientists and mathematicians had been exploring the concept for centuries. Mandelbrot developed a geometry to express things found in the natural rather than the man-made world - coastlines galaxies anatomy clouds trees snowflakes and the like. Fractals are intrinsic to Chaos Theory - the science of surprises of the non-linear and unpredictable. They reveal the order governing the seemingly chaotic in our world. As we learn to recognize them we gain insight into our world our selves one another. Especially at this cultural moment when the whole world has changed and we must re-imagine the ways in which we make art and the ways we educate Fractals provides resources and approaches for collaborative art and for locating the intersection of arts and academics in ways that illuminate both.