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The Fabrication of Art and Beyond: Making and Inventing in Digital Culture |
Robert B. Lisek, Institute for Research in Science and Art, Szczecin, Poland
Deciphering RandomnessThe paper poses fundamental questions concerning the working of human brain and randomness. Creativity and the search for innovative solutions, building of new prototypes and fabrication, requires the extension of intellectual tools, including the replacement of simple generative techniques with probabilistic methods as well as with methods related to randomness.
In order to understand, develop and overcome algorithmic methods (including programs and apparatuses), one needs to understand the notion of randomness and random generators.
The work analyses, among others, different probabilistic methods and pseudo-random generators, which are indispensable in numerous artistic applications as well as in other domains (music, computer games, safety on the network). These methods should be developed and applied through building new prototypical apparatuses and programs. The paper discusses new creative techniques and artistic strategies: creation of prototypes, open source, open hardware, hacking, tactical media etc.
Biography:
Robert B. Lisek is an artist, mathematician and thinker who focuses on systems and processes (computational, biological, social). He is involved in the number of projects investigating radical art strategies, hacktivism and tactical media. Drawing upon conceptual art, software art and meta-media, his work intentionally defies categorisation. Lisek is a pioneer of art based on AI and bioinformatics. Lisek is also a composer of contemporary music, author of many projects and scores on the intersection of spectral, stochatistic, concret music, musica futurista and noise. Lisek is also a scientist who conducts research in the area of foundations of science (mathematics and computer science).