Are order and randomness truly mutually exclusive? I found it very fascinating when the speaker spoke about the process behind the commission for a building incorporating chance and randomness, the actual procedure of preparing and creating the art was so orderly. Seen in this way, order can lead to, or support the creation of, chaos. On the other hand, there are plenty of examples from nature that shows randomness can lead to order, including in bird swarms and ant colonies. The relationship between order and randomness, therefore, seem to not be so simple.
As much as it is mesmerizing to observe the “creation” of chance and randomness, I do think randomness should be utilized consciously. It may be easy to leave everything to chance, whether in art or elsewhere, and let it dictate the meaning of the final output; however, incorporating randomness to any work should not take time away from the ideation and meaningful reflection process that needs to happen throughout. Now that I have been introduced to great examples of how randomness can be utilized in art, I hope to explore (the presence or absence of) the boundary between order and chaos, while at the same time ensuring that, unless the main intention of the work is to observe randomness, randomness is not forced and incorporated just for the sake of having it in.