Looking Outwards 06

After looking at a couple of articles on randomness in the computation of art, I came across the work of Rami Hammour. The project presented is called “A Text of Random Meanings”. The art piece was completed during Hammour through the usage of python script as well as the “registers and taps” method of random number generator. From afar, the project simply looks like lines of texts which are created with various types of strokes in each column. It’s very interesting to see that from a distance, it resembles lines of texts. This causes the viewer to be curious and want to take a closer look at the text. However, because it is “random text”, there is no actual definition or meaning to the text. It represents randomness. If it was a regular piece of text, the natural reaction that humans would have is to read it because it would have meaning. If all the letters of each word were to be shuffled, each word would lose its meaning. For that reason, the “text” would also lose meaning. To add on, it is also interesting to see how numbers can be represented in an artistic way. Through the mapping of a random number generator, Rami Hammour combines computation and art in a very simple way while creating an intriguing outcome.