Robert Uomini is an artist working with images and sound derived from the boundary of the Mandelbrot set. His practice began in the mid-1990s with light-box photographs and large-format LightJet prints, and has continued for nearly thirty years through the development of The Fractals Artist Toolkit, an interactive system that renders the iteration data of the Mandelbrot set as both image and audio.
He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley (1976), under Blaine Lawson. In 1995 he endowed the Shiing-Shen Chern Visiting Professorship, the first endowed chair in the history of Berkeley's Mathematics department, in honor of an early teacher and advocate. He also founded Plato's Playground, a mathematics program for elementary school children, in 2006.
He lives and works in southwestern France.