GOAL: To create a system of creative expression using chance operations.
OBJECTIVE: Students will apply randomization techniques to generate unique creative output.
PROCESS:
- What forms of chance operations do you encounter in day-to-day life?
- How can you generate random numbers/things? Come up with 10 different ways.
- How do historic forms of divination use chance operations?
- What is a ‘cut poem’ aka a ‘Dadaist poem’?
- What is the difference between a blank grid and a randomly colored grid?
- What does it mean to put limits, boundaries, or constraints on randomization?
- Continue researching online or elsewhere about the ideas we discussed in class and investigate the many different art forms out there that explore ideas of ‘chance operations. (See related artists.)
- How can you use a computer or code to generate random values?
- What is the role of ‘audience/viewer’ in a randomization system?
- Of all the ideas you have now, select and refine three of them with sketches and models.
- Select one and make it!
REQUIREMENTS:
- Work must implement randomization as part of its process.
- Some aspect of the system should fit into the category of Digital Media.
- The system must implement a methodology of curation. It is not a system of utter random chaos, but of selection and refinement.
- Your chance operation system should generate multiple different ‘compositions’ OR present itself differently each time it ‘performs’.
- Do not use dice.
RELATED READINGS: Ascott, Kluver, Dinkla
RELATED ARTISTS: John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Ascott, Jean Tinguely, Yoko Ono, Frieder Nake, Manfred Mohr, George Nees, Dada, Fluxus