Videos for 2025 Jacksonville University MFA Visual Arts Thesis
Strange Attractions: Chaos as Medium, Material, and Mark-Making Instrument
by Kenneth A. Huff
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Video 2.1. Specimen 2020_05_02_171744sw₃ with one parameter animated, demonstrating the nonlinear behavior of Strange Attractions specimens based on linear parameter changes.
Video 2.2. A specimen, 2012_04_25_131424dz, and five of its variants, animated by changing the same single parameter for each.
Video 2.3. A side-by-side comparison changing weight (left) and r (right) of a single locus over a range of [-2.0, 2.0].
Video 2.4. An animation stretching a parameter change of 0.723404 to 0.893617, evenly across 1,440 frames.
Video 2.5. (There is a brief period of strobing at the beginning of this video.) A side-by-side comparison of the accumulations for single iterations and across multiple iterations.
Video 2.6. A stacked comparison of different methods of seeding of random values for an animated specimen.
Video 2.7. A video recording almost four and a half minutes of real time interaction with an accumulation fade factor of 0.999.
Video 2.8. An animation comparing four accumulation fading factor values.
Video 2.9. An example of a specimen-mark.
Video 2.9. An animation showing folding in action.
Video 2.10. An animation of a single parameter changing on 2020_06_07_143455fu, a four-dimensional Strange Attractions specimen, viewed flattened onto the six axial planes of four-dimensional space respectively.
Video 2.11. An animation of two parameters changing on 2020_06_07_143455fu, a four-dimensional Strange Attractions specimen.
Video 2.12. (When played at its natural speed, this video flashes.) A side-by-side comparison of the same specimen, but with samplers initialized from a different octant.
Video 2.13. An animation sketch utilizing variations based on initializing the samplers with values from specific octants.
Video 2.14. This video shows a side-by-side comparison of an “octant sweep” and an octant sweep with a single parameter animated.
Video 3.1. Geroge Rickey, Peristyle V, 1963–95, Benesse House, Naoshima, Japan, December 2018.
Video 3.2. Phasing between two LED spotlights.
Video 3.3. Video of the NOMAD Surface projecting the project based on found vintage burlesque footage.
Video 3.4. Ten seconds of the installation footage extended to forty seconds to illustrate the anticipating and reminiscing color shifts that occurred throughout the piece. (Performer: Sunny Knight, 1949)
Video 5.1. Documentation version of animation created for the Signapore Night Festival 2019.
Video 5.2. Video of the NOMAD Surface projecting a project inspired kaleidoscopes.