Randomness
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| + | Within the visual arts, the word chance is used more than our term random. The meaning of chance in this context is more general and covers a wider range of work. In his text Chance Imagery, the conceptual artist George Brecht clarifies between two types of chance operations, “one where the origin of images is unknown because it lies in deeper-than-conscious levels of the mind, and the second where images derive from mechanical processes not under the artist’s control.” The first definition describes the work of the surrealists and abstract expressionists who allow subconscious processes to dictate the work. The second definition correlates to how we define randomness; it describes the work of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, the artists most relevant to our interest in 10 Print. | ||
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| + | In 1913, the French artist Marcel Duchamp made a strong statement with Three Standard Stoppages. MORE | ||
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| + | “Dada wished to destroy the reasonable frauds of men and recover the natural, unreasonable order. Dada wished to replace the logical nonsense of the men of today with an illogical nonsense.” | ||
=== The Emergence of Randomness in Computing === | === The Emergence of Randomness in Computing === | ||
