DISQUS

Ninja vs Penguin: Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

  • chris · 1 year ago
    Damn, I'm jealous! I loved Cornelia Parker's 'Cold, Dark Matter'.

    Just a minute; is this the man who made the gunpowder paintings? Some of those were rather good.
  • NinjaVsPenguin · 1 year ago
    Yeah, he did the gunpowder paintings. they're amazing. we also saw video of him making them. some funny stuff :)
  • chris · 1 year ago
    Yeah! They remind me of Andy Goldsworthy's sheep paintings - the ones made by laying a canvas under a block of mineral feed in a sheep field. Though I think I like the Goldworthys better, the randomness seems more 'natural'. It seems to make more sense, the way nature 'randomises' things. I'm still hoping someone finds a solution to the prime number mystery during our lifetime, I would love to know whether they really are random, or how they are 'chosen'.
  • NinjaVsPenguin · 1 year ago
    Hey Chris,

    The sheep field thing sounds pretty interesting, I need to check it out.

    Cai's gunpowder doesn't seem to be about randomness. Though there is an aspect of chaos in it. I think his main point is "creation through destruction".

    The prime number problem is interesting. I never saw it as random because very little of math is random. At the same time, to say that there's some formula is difficult to. The main problem comes from the complexity of the real number set. The geometric growth makes processing them pretty difficult.

    -Penguin