Publisher's Synopsis
Chance explores the intersections between art & technology / humans & machines / polyphony & mathematical systems. Mathematical models are often used to represent physical systems::: our ideas about how the world works. They are like a score / orchestration / script / generative code. Algorithmic blueprints draw the contours of change and movement::: convergences, divergences, emergent patterns and cascading, system-level impacts. Mathematical models can depict the complexity and profound tension between independent threads and the bounds of interconnected webs::: the polyphony of life.
Code is a literature::: a pattern language::: a score. It is a choreography::: a performance. A code renderer is the weaver::: the mill::: the alchemist::: the wizard. Code is a spell::: an incantation::: an intent. When code is performed it is an activation of text::: a linguistic gymnastics.
In a perfect confluence of electricity, network, rhythm, memory, processing, action & reactions
a program comes to life::: Pinocchio::: a real boi at last. The program (the cybernetic ze) speaks to us, calculates for us, responds to our touch: our keystrokes. It becomes our mirror:: our cyborg self::: our memory.
