Random numbers play a crucial role in contemporary technology, underpinning security, data encryption, and algorithmic processes. The chaotic sequences that forms random numbers ensure secure communication through cryptographic keys, safeguarding sensitive information online. In simulations and modelling, random numbers facilitate realistic, unbiased outcomes, essential for scientific research and financial forecasting. They are vital for AI, enhancing algorithm efficiency, ensuring unbiased decision-making, supporting robust model training, and enabling stochastic processes essential for predictive accuracy and adaptive learning. With this comes a huge increase in energy and resources demanded by the intensification of the information fluxes that keep the technosphere in operation.
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Miha Turšič and Špela Petrič
Miha Turšič is an artist, designer, and researcher dedicated to developing arts and humanities in outer space. He designed works about the human condition in outer space, developing post-gravitational artand artistic satellites; co-founded the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies, an institution with dedicated Cultural Space Programme; and actively developing cooperations between space and art institutions in Europe, Russia, United States and China. Currently, he works at Waag as an Space Lab lead and concept and project developer specialised in collaborative research and innovation.
Špela Petrič is a Slovenian hybrid media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic research and practice combines biomedia and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that question the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies. Recently she has been busy with looking closely at automation of care in agriculture and medicine. Petrič has received several awards, such as the White Aphroid for outstanding artistic achievement (Slovenia), the Bioart and Design Award (Netherlands), and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).