Looking Outwards-06

In looking at the application of randomness in generative art this week, I looked at Rami Hammour’s work on A Text of Random Meaning. It’s a visualization mapping out 18 columns of a “Register and Taps” random number generator in action. I found it interesting the way the final visualization simulates the look of long columns of text, but once viewers zoom in they find that the randomly generated lines are not actually representative of anything. I found the irony in this interaction very interesting. However, one of the interesting points I came across in my research was that technically in it’s simulated nature, there is no such thing as true randomness. In descriptions of Rami Hammour’s project, it is described as a “systematic cycle for producing randomness”.