1st Order Markov Chain - 5 Iterations
Using a pencil, paper, two dice, and a day - this piece meditates on technologies of production. Our post-industrial landscape gives us pre-prepared ingredients, neatly packaged and disconnected from their labour, ready-to-cook. Designers have computational tools, masses of code, neatly packaged, disconnected from their labour, ready-to-produce.
With a synthetic computer a Markov Chain code maintains a binary for innumerable iterations:
on & off, black & white...male & female...
These binary identities exist in the context of colonial industrial practice, hyperfocused on efficiency and production.
"                                                                
An "on" cell: 33.3% chance of turning off and 66.6% chance of staying on.
An "off" cell: 33.3% chance of staying off and 66.6% chance of turning on.
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In human hands, without incomprehensible precision, the binary degrades, the boxes fade. The impetus to over-produce and refine crumbles in just 5 iterations.
Materials: Pencil, Paper, Rhino + Grasshopper, Python, Paper + Marker for Dice
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