Exact tests of aesthetic fitness need no apology.
Order and chaos are the sort of questions that a critic can pose, but only artists can answer.
Ellsworth Kelly
Stochastic art still leave us with the system represented as a mixture of various possibilities, like being in two places at once.
The word dada was found at random, and as such placed fortune and luck in the centre of the renewable creative processes. By relying on luck or chance, the Dadas were stressing the pointlessness of their actions, and their absence of intentionality thereby laying claim to an unfettered and risk-taking attitude.
The result is the all-too-familiar impression that mathematics is a collection of seemingly arbitrary rules to be applied to an uncreative, essentially mindless fashion.
Ours is an uncertain world
Keith Devlin
