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I had to ask myself why I am doing what I am doing

I keep going back to how my life was in Singapore.

Living in a false democracy, it was a life of curated choices. The country is governed with precision and maybe too much precision for a lot of people. You are expected to go through a certain things to achieve certain things that are suited to the well-being of the country, anything else it becomes very alone.

Singapore is a pre-deterministic space to me, life is ran for you.

And I think that is why the idea of obscurity speaks to me, the idea that there is something unusual in a space of usualness. This was lacking in my life and I try to explore it in my work.

Randomness, the idea of it alone brings up many questions on the feasibility and vagueness of it. If it is even possible mathematically or visually but it has to do with perception and the image of ability to invoke a level of unclarity, questioning of the mind is everything.

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chaotic systems & pseudo-randomness

According to Yulal Noah Harrari, there are 2 types of chaotic systems.

- Does not react to predictions about (Weather)
- Reacts to predictions (Markets, Politics)

However,

most algorithms are pseudo-random

for example, a coin flipping generator still works on code.

The variable could be the value of PI,

3.141592653589........

we set the following rules

1,3,5 and so on to be heads
2,4,6 and so on to be tails

and every time you request for a coin flip, it reads the next number on PI and reads the result

3 = Heads
1 = Heads
4 = Tails
1 = Heads

Sooooo, is it really random?

3

secret variables

So coming back from the previous page, if having a secret variable can trick people into thinking of randomness, is randomness possible? I still think no, it is just perception.

So how do I force randomness, to show something as actually random but isn't.

Perhaps, looking back at the idea of entropy, can I use a whole object/shape, a circle perhaps, and break it apart randomly. Show those parts to the audience and allow them to piece to together back into the whole circle.

Basically creating the final object, reversing it back and piecing it back together. This can be an idea of creating the illusion of randomness