This page presents only art-related links. For software and POV-Ray links, see this page.

The Institut National de l'Audiovisuel is the home of the Book of Beginnings since 1995. Warm thanks go to Marie-Luce Viaud, INA researcher and Artichaud's soul, and to Pascal Vuylsketer (INA webmaster) for their support, and don't forget to pay a visit to the other Artichaud artists.

Artists

	Dominique de Bardonnèche is one of the best computer artists. Her works (mainly done in Photoshop) are manifold and feed on ancient paintings, history, poetry or philosophy, but she's above all extremely talented. She uses every support for her art : web, silk, paper, stone. Have a free tour at the Museum Hermeticum and be prepared to a lot of surprises ! (Flash plug-in required)
	Debi Lee Mandel is a computer artist and web designer whose subtle work explores the complexity and intimacies of human relationships. Her favourite tool is Photoshop, but she also uses traditional media, as you can see at her Catsprite Studio.
	Cher Pendarvis-Threinen is the well known author of the Painter Wow! Books (Peachpit Press), but she's also an accomplished artist, who brings to the digital world the intensity and warmth of the traditional techniques. The spirits of Cézanne, Monet and Hopper seem to blow a gentle breeze on her Southern California landscapes...
	Tsutomu Higo has a training in traditional painting and a love for mathematics, and he combines both in his POV-Ray work : his quartics, julia sets, and other recursive patterns have a rarely seen beauty. His Cyberbust gallery showcases POV-Ray pictures, POV-Ray sources, traditional paintings and drawings, as well as poems (haikus) and collective works. Tsutomu also participated in the Japanese POV-Ray guide.
	François Dispot is the author of Arabeske, an on-line utility for creating repetitive patterns. But he's also the proud father of Germain Landfelder, who lives in a world of absurd proportions.
	Mick Hazelgrove is a master of 3D poetry, where fantasy meets the English landscape.
	Surrealism and Daliesque references for Emmanuel Correia, who shows an incredible talent for colours and ambiences with POV-Ray.
	Surrealism again for L.J. Atwater, but with a different twist, a real grace and a mix of childhood "purity" and dream-like weirdness (POV-Ray).
	Luc Bianco creates magnificient natural landscapes with Terragen, by M. P. Fairclough.
	Alain Fraval is an INRA scientist and a talented painter. Abstraction, yes, but so close to our personal, intimate landscapes.

Galleries and associations

	The Label Média Art (Rosalie Hurtado and Véronique Granger) is a Grenoble-based association aiming at the promotion of computer artists (sorry, no website yet).
	The Espace Connectik (Patrick Goubet) is one of the first "cybercafés" in the Lyon region, and a future real-life digital gallery.
	Colville Place Gallery is "the only gallery in the UK dedicated to exhibiting Digital Artists".
	Digital Waterfalls (David Bennett and Steve Attwood) is a gallery that shows their own excellent works with POV-Ray and Bryce, as well as links and interviews of 3D artists.
	Digital Renaissance (Rick McCawley) is a comprehensive gallery for 3D artists.
	The Internet Ray-Tracing Competition is the n°1 source for amateur 3D art. Look out for the best POV-Ray artists, like Jaime Vives Piqueres, H.E. Day,  Nathan O'Brien or Glenn McCarter. A great source for inspiration. And I've won it twice (see Harvest Time and The Wet Bird)...
	Sungold gallery (Richard Heyes) contains many pictures and links of 3D artists.

Software

	Fractals as you've (maybe) never seen them, thanks to Stephen C. Ferguson, who creates great fractal generators, such as Tierazon, that I used in the fractal gallery of the Book of Beginnings.
	Lars Kindermann is the inventor of Musinum, a intriguing programme that generates computer music through fractals and self-similarity.

Miscellaneous

	Virtuality is not all there is ! I was invited in October 1998 to participate in a collective and itinerant installation by Dominique de Bardonnèche and Lynda Barril. I mercifully slaughtered a few moribund computers, turned them into pieces and made little objects out of them, that you can see in the installation site, Grève (Beach). Flash plug-in required.
	Interview for "Transfert" magazine (March 1999, in French). "Transfert" is a French cyberculture magazine.
	Interview for "Le Monde" newspaper (August 1999, in French).