Random working processes
Random procedures of different sorts may be useful here. If a sufficient number of variables are used in a program, for example, the artist can bring things to the point where they literally have no idea what may happen on pressing the Enter key. Yet they are still in a position where they make judgements about the results. They use their knowledge of the world, their tactile sense, their awareness of gravity and physics and their receptiveness to the properties of colour. The computer itself does not have these sensibilities in the same way. However, it reorders the material it is given and generates colours and forms itself and as it does so, the artist can intervene at any time and exert their influence on what is happening.