After watching the video, I started researching a little about the concept of “chaos” and “randomness”. There is something very powerful, even ironic behind the idea of wanting to create something that drifts apart from the author’s will. Moreover, utilizing an element such as computer processing, which relies completely upon rational decisions and binaries, is especially interesting. There are no middle points in the computer’s processing, and yet artists manage to create such varied art through chance operations.
Now, all this makes me think more about the fact that we managed to create a “chaos” formed entirely from a controlled, non-stochastic environment. Therefore, can we really say it is “true chaos”? Same happens with “true randomness”(see reference) The existence of “controlled chaos” could be a point that more artists explore and think about. William Paley, in his book Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, said: “Chance seems to be only a term, by which we express our ignorance of the cause of anything“. Maybe the key does not rely on trying to create “real chaos” or “real randomness”, but rather, being able to constantly create things that do not align necessarily with our own thoughts, but instead create an entirely new thought from that “randomness” and that “chaos” we have created earlier.
Reference:
Does True Randomness Exist? – https://medium.com/illumination/does-true-randomness-exist-5d2fc7f413dd