In Between the Silence

Berrie Sutcliffe's work is working up to genius! 
For those of you who like to brew over a rich roast of philosophy, the following thoughts will steam the pot.

He states, "I was interested in how the viewer perceives "true" randomness, something which is completely outside of our daily experiences. It is only possible to measure such events after they have occurred. I put true in quotes because of my interest in determinism through the implicate order."

Although the work uses motors and and an algorithm Berrie asserts, "It should be noted that the movement of the arms is not algorithmic, due to the fact that they get their data from radioactive decay. The overall program is of course an algorithm, but the movement position of the arms cannot be described in this way. This contradiction is important to the work."

I enjoy the ideas that motivate and describe his work and his observations about reality.  It appears that his definition of “randomness” includes behavior that is has no immediately visual patterns, but can be measured after the action occurs.  I am further inspired to read some of David Bohm’s work, regarding implicate order.

I think that this work is successful at communicating “true randomness”.  I find the work successful in communicating the difficulty which exists in being aware of actions that do not explicitly represent, or appear to have, a pattern of movement/behavior.
Like my coffee, I enjoy art that is philosophically roasted.
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