TT Public Talk | A Deep Dive Into Chance, Randomness, Order, and Entropy A Talk With Jeff Thompson

Session 6: Chance
SATURDAY, 1 MAY 2021
15:00 - 15:45 UTC

A Deep Dive Into Chance, Randomness, Order, and Entropy
A Talk with Jeff Thompson

Following a winding thread between the visual arts, music, mathematics, and computer science, this talk will trace the ways thinkers of all kinds have thought about order and chaos. We’ll look at examples ranging from Surrealist collages and the Situationist “dérive,” collaged audio and open-ended Fluxus performance scores, and the binary determinism of the computer and ways cryptographic researchers measure randomness. We’ll also consider Claude Shannon’s idea that the more random a message the more information it actually contains and how this idea of entropy loops around into extreme order.

JEFF THOMPSON’S BIOGRAPHY | http://www.jeffreythompson.org/

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The last weekend of every month the institute is in session, we will hold a topic-based weekend intensive with our PhD students and you are invited to attend a series of talks ranging from artist presentations, to talks driven by the workshop topics or practice research itself. For those of you interested in pursuing doctoral studies, the latter talks may be of special interest. Full program and upcoming talks: TT Intensive Program.