Move by Nature

Free drawing can be played as a kind of action-reaction game.
The fun is to provoke a first- undeliberate reaction to an unexpected event.
But for the autonomous artist the unexpected becomes predicatable after the first action. The information-loop is closed and the brain is two steps ahead of the situation and already knows what it will do next
The challenge is to apply the advantage of external information as-in collaborations to the autonomous process.
As a possible solution I use a DIY chaotic number generator and a grid as a kind of programmable co-player.

The chaotic number generator(CNG) produces a sequence of numbers that correspond to sections on a grid. Together these sections generate a trend or flow. By treating this trend as a message communicated by a second player this provokes a response, and this way an action-reaction oscillation is established. Responses may vary from amplifying or feeding forward the trend, going against- or by ignoring it.

Line based grids

Somewhat similar to playing chess against a computer except in this case the goal is to end at a kind of stalemate equilibrium with maximum dynamic tension and there is freedom in creating the layout of the field/grid.
The grid can be build using CNG and may be based on canvas size, tape size or centimeters.
The formal use of a chaotic number generator motivates informal levels of organisation.