Lavarand (PRNG) 2018
Real time animation
In Lavarand (PRNG), the studio staircase is reduced to paper cut-out animations sliding across each other to find a new resting position.
Their movement is determined by a random number generator, so each time the animation is set in motion, a different composition is arrived at.
The audio emanating via transducers from the suspended panel is the sound of a hand as it moves across the metal banisters.
"Lavarand" is a system for generating random numbers (PRNG) using the image of lava lamps. This concept was introduced by Silicon Graphics in the mid-1990s. The system works by capturing the chaotic motion of a collection of lava lamps with a camera, digitizing the image, and then using that data to seed a pseudorandom number generator.