katieche-looking outwards 06

I chose the randomness project done by Linyi Dai, an architecture student at RISD, after seeing her work posted on an article about randomness in computation. As seeen from the video above, the project is simple as it generates what appears to be a series of random lines and shapes over time. In the written portion of her project, she talks about how she opted for pseudo-randomness, creating an unpredictable interaction between the patterns she’s already derived. I thought what she had written about randomness, stating that it was used in a generative manor to overcome the creative limitations of the creator, was really interesting and meaningful. Initially, I didn’t have much of an interest or understanding of why randomness was used so often, but following her comments I can see why.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3052333/the-value-of-randomness-in-art-and-design
http://lostritto.com/risd2015spring-seminar/?cat=5