This video really put into words something I’ve been figuring out with my own work. It’s not “randomness” itself that I find interesting, but what happens when you give a system a little bit of freedom to play with the code itself. I really like when my work starts with something simple and then escalates into something complex and interesting ! Also, I really liked the idea of the artist as a gardener, not a painter.
At the same time, the video’s question about “true randomness” and convergence really caught my attention. If you let systems run long enough, they tend to eventually form some sort of patterns. And it is exactly the kind of thing I enjoy the most: you start very broadly and then some kind of order appears. And that is exactly what I want to see in my own generative pieces. I don’t want pure static, and I don’t want something completely predictable. I want that middle ground where you can still recognize my own aesthetic in the codes I wrote. This video helped me realize that I’m not just making art with controlled chaos, I’m actually designing a system’s tendencies and then letting the computer show me just how far they can be pushed.