"One way to turn the 'aesthetics of everything' into concrete artworks is therefore, to devise mathematical or computational systems for generating art works which are not determined by the artist –– arbitrary artworks, random samples from a large space of possibilities. This literal–minded approach to the idea of faire n'importe quoi is known as chance art –– a genre that was widely practised in the [nineteen] sixties. (Cf. George Brecht, John Cage, Elsworth Kelly, François Morellet, Frieder Nake, Peter Struycken, Zdenek Sykora, Herman de Vries.)"
(Remko Scha)
Fig.1 François Morellet (1958). "6 répartitions aléatoires de 4 carrés noirs et blancs d'après les chiffres pairs et impairs du nombre Pi", Georges Pompidou Centre Paris, oil on wood, 80cm x 80cm.
