THE HERE, THE NOW AND OTHERWISE
Through History, Through Time, and Infinity
Objective: Students will apply randomization techniques to generate unique creative output. To create a system of creative expression using chance operations.
Through history, time, and infinity. My chance operations project was originally inspired by one of our readings, The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges. I was fascinated by the concept of time travel, parallel and multiple universes. The randomness in this time warp of a project comes from my initial plan of having a button that you can press and be able to read a newspaper from a random time in space. The newspaper might be from the future, the past, or better yet another parallel universe.
The coding behind this project pulls from multiple newspaper articles. When you click the “For More News” button the screen in front of you will then push a completely random newspaper article. I initially wanted the screen to stall for about three seconds before delivering the newspaper as to give the effect of the machine searching and finding a random article for the viewer to read. So, every time the viewer clicks on the “For More News” button, it gives the feeling of something that isn’t instantaneous but mimics the actions of an old machine.