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Randomness within art and all other aspects of life is extremely interesting. There are different types of random numbers and each type can be used in different cases. One person who’s interested me in expressing randomness is Rami Hammour. Rami Hammour is an architectural designer who created a digital piece of artwork centered toward the idea of randomness. I’m not sure of the algorithms used to create the piece although the artwork itself is not random. Like pseudo-random numbers his work has limitations and expectations that don’t make his work truly ‘random’. But the overall idea of the work is to not directly express randomness but to describe the complex relationship between human experience, “digital media, authorship, and even conceptions of reality and the divine”. The artist’s sensibilities lie in the parameters behind the artwork and the understanding that randomness is prevalent everywhere, even in nature, yet it can be completely elusive in a digital system, in which they’re designed with all the forces and processes are known and quantifiable.

Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/3052333/the-value-of-randomness-in-art-and-design