Kathy McTavishAs a media composer and installation artist, I create chance-infused, open systems. Chance is a frayed thread, a stochastic cloud, a pointillist field, a variance, a complexity, an uncertainty, a ragged line. Chance is a prayer: : : a slim window of hance for survival in this time of profound climatic change. Evolution requires variability, chance and fruitful deviation. A system's ability to adapt to change depends on its ability to mutate: : : on trial & error & improvisation. My work blends data, text, code, sound and abstract, layered moving images. Code is a literature: : : a pattern language: : : a score. It is a choreography: : : a performance. A code renderer is the weaver: : : the mill: : : the alchemist: : : the wizard. Code is a spell: : : an incantation: : : an intent. In a perfect confluence of electricity, network, rhythm, memory, processing, action / reactions a program comes to life: : : Pinocchio: : : a real boi at last. The program (the cybernetic ze) speaks to us, calculates for us, responds, to our touch: : : our keystrokes. It becomes our mirror: Read More Read Less