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Lista Chance defenition Serendipity defenition Random defenition Probability defenition Luck defenition Eureka defenition Musical Dice Game W. A. Mozart 4’33’’ App John Cage Trust Serenflipity Cara Thomas Water Yam George Brecht Lateral Thinking Daniel Eatock Exquisite Corpse Surrealism Automatism Writting Surrealism Topographie anécdotée du hasard Daniel Spoerri Shooting Painting Niki de Saint Phalle Newspaper Mural Alberto Carneiro Printed Book Sidónio Silva

Chance

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chance noun noun: chance; plural noun: chances 1. a possibility of something happening. “there is a chance of winning the raffle” the probability of something desirable happening. “he played down his chances of becoming chairman” an opportunity to do or achieve something. “I gave her a chance to answer” 2. the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause. “he met his brother by chance”

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Chance

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noun: serendipity; plural noun: serendipities

Serendipity

serendipity noun

the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Serendipity

“a fortunate stroke of serendipity”

Random

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random adjective adjective: random 1. made, done, or happening without method or conscious decision. “apparently random violence” governed by or involving equal chances for each item. “a random sample of 100 households” (of masonry) with stones of irregular size and shape. 2. unfamiliar or unspecified. “are you going to take some random guy on Twitter’s word?” odd, unusual, or unexpected. “the class was hard but he was so random that it was always fun” noun: random; plural noun: randoms an unknown, unspecified, or odd person. “I just sat down by myself and talked to some randoms” Definitions from Oxford Languages https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/

Random

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noun: probability the quality or state of being probable; the extent to which something is likely to happen or be the case. “the rain will make the probability of a postponement even greater”

Probability

probability noun

a probable or the most probable event. plural noun: probabilities “for a time revolution was a strong probability”

Probability

the extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favourable cases to the whole number of cases possible. “the area under the curve represents probability”

Luck

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luck noun noun: luck success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions. “it was just luck that the first kick went in” chance considered as a force that causes good or bad things to happen. something regarded as bringing about or portending good or bad things. “I don’t like Friday—it’s bad luck”

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Luck

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exclamation: eureka; plural noun: eurekas

Eureka

eureka exclamation

a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something. “The answer hit me. ‘Eureka!’ I cried”

Eureka

noun, trademark noun: eureka an alloy of copper and nickel used for electrical filaments and resistance wire.

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In 1787, Mozart wrote 272 short pieces (measures) of music and a table of rules to compose a waltz by throwing two dice. Every time one rolls the dice, the measures get combined in a new way to produce a unique one-minute waltz.

The rules for the composition are as follows: Two six-sided dice are thrown and the resulting sum determines each of the measures. The letters A-H in the horizontal axis determine the measure (from first to 8th).

https://www.ludosonica.com/2017/03/02/mozarts-dice-gamewaltz/

Musikalisches Würfelspiel (Musical Dice Game) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1787

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The numbers 2-12 in the vertical axis represent the sum one can get with two dice. So if one rolls a 10, the first measure is the one corresponding to 98. In the second round one rolls a 5, so the second measure is number 17.

Musikalisches Würfelspiel (Musical Dice Game) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1787

It is guaranteed to be unique: there are approx. 295,147,905,200,000,000,000 possible combinations and to listen to all of them you’ll need about 561,544,720,700,000 years.

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4‘33” was John Cage’s most famous and disruptive composition, and now it can be performed by you! Cage’s work, which teaches us that there’s no such thing as ‘silence’ (and that there’s joy to be found in paying close attention to the sounds around), is available in this official release from the John Cage Trust and Cage’s long-time publisher, C.F. Peters.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/isaac-newton-the-man-who-discovered -gravity/zh8792p

4’33 App John Cage Trust

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Users are able to capture a three movement ‘performance’ of the ambient sounds in their environment, and then upload and share that performance with the world. They’re also able to listen to the performances of others, and to explore a worldwide map of ever growing performance locations.

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As a bonus, the 4’33” app features a recording of the ambient sounds at play in John Cage’s last New York apartment, which he found a source of constant surprise, inspiration, and delight.

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Nothing beats real human connection.

We believe it’s okay to need motivation to take risks. That facing fears can be fun, and that one change can inspire another — and other people.

So we built a game to help you get out of your comfort zone — to make it fun and easy to see what happens when you do things differently. The more you play, the more you grow — and the more the unexpected starts to happen. http://www.serenflipity.com https://www.amazon.com/Serenflipity-30-Everyday-Adventure-Cards/dp/1452161666

Serenflipity Cara Thomas

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Serenflipity is rooted in behavioral science — and in real experience.

Our founder, Cara Thomas, built this deck to help her get unstuck after a breakup and re-inspired at work. The rules are simple: just pick a card and complete the adventure. Take as long as you need, and when you’re done, pick a new card and start all over.

Serenflipity Cara Thomas

Most importantly, just say “yes.”

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»Water-Yam« is a box containing 102 white cards on which instructions, events, or single thoughts are printed in black lettering. Visitors and performers are free to interpret the events and implement the instructions in any way they choose, and the index cards are not organized according to a particular hierarchy.

https://zkm.de/en/artwork/water-yam https://www.moma.org/artists/756#works

Water Yam George Brecht, 1963

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Water Yam George Brecht, 1963

Inspired by the composer John Cage, Brecht developed event scores as well as other works using randomizations and ambient noises. For »Water-Yam«, he extended these event scores to encompass painting, sculpture, theatre, the everyday and the extraordinary, humor, mathematics, logic, and irrationality. »All I do is bring things into evidence, but they’re already there,« explained Brecht. The simplicity and directness of the cards reflect the participatory and experimental philosophy of Fluxus.

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My specialism is lateral thinking, resolving the complexity encountered in the world with reductive poetic logic. I intertwine commercial and cultural practice: responding to the paradox of daily life and the complexities of project assignments.

I seek focused solutions that feel inevitable. I get there by starting at the beginning, asking why, what if… then making sense of the things I find with radical acceptance and by embracing truth.

https://eatock.com/about/daniel-eatock/2/ https://eatock.com/collections/vandalized-trees-reoriented/

Lateral Thinking Daniel Eatock, 1991_

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Lateral Thinking Daniel Eatock, 1991_

Vandalized Trees Reoriented 2006 – ongoing Re-aligning the fallen trunks with the vertical edges of the frame, these photographs of damaged saplings give their subjects a second life as representations.

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A game in which each participant takes turns writing or drawing on a sheet of paper, folding it to conceal his or her contribution, and then passing it to the next player for a further contribution.

Nude (Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray, 1926)

https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/exquisite-corpse https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35701?sov_referrer=art_ term&art_term_slug=exquisite-corpse https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35778?sov_referrer=art_ term&art_term_slug=exquisite-corpse

Exquisite corpse Surrealism, 1920

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The game gained popularity in artistic circles during the 1920s when it was adopted as a technique by artists of the Surrealist movement to generate collaborative compositions.

Figure (Cadavre Exquis with André Breton, Jacques Hérold,

Exquisite corpse Surrealism, 1920

Yves Tanguy, Victor Brauner, 1934)

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Automatism as a term is borrowed from physiology, where it describes bodily movements that are not consciously controlled like breathing or sleepwalking. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud used free association and automatic drawing or writing to explore the unconscious mind of his patients. Freud’s ideas strongly influenced French poet André Breton who launched the surrealist movement in 1924 with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism. In the manifesto, Breton defined surrealism as ‘Pure psychic automatism ... the dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason and outside all moral or aesthetic concerns’.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/automatism

Automatism Writting Surrealism, 1924

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Automatism Writting Surrealism, 1924

Breton and others produced the earliest examples of automatism in their automatic writings, aiming to write as rapidly as possible without intervening consciously to guide the hand.

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“Following a rambling conversation with his dear friend Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri one day mapped the objects lying at random on the table of his room, adding a rigorously scientific decription of each. These objects subsequently evoked associations, memories, anecdotes; not only from the original author, but from his friends as well: a beguiling creation was born.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127149?artist_ id=5569&page=1&sov_referrer=artist https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/10242/

Topographie anécdotée du hasard Daniel Spoerri, 1962

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Topographie anécdotée du hasard Daniel Spoerri, 1962

Many of the principal participants of FLUXUS make an appearance. It is a novel of digressions in the manner of Tristram Shandy or Robbe-Grillet; it’s a game, a poem, an encyclopaedia, a cabinet of wonders: a celebration of friendship and creativity. The Topography personifies (and predates) the whole FLUXUS spirit and constitutes one of the strangest and most compelling insights into the artist’s life. From out of the banal detritus of the everyday a virtual autobiography emerges.”

serendipity, made by chance

Saint Phalle created Shooting Painting American Embassy during “Homage to David Tudor,” a performance program she staged, with the artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jean Tinguely, at the theater of the American Embassy in Paris on June 20, 1961. Over the course of the evening, each artist deployed strategies of indeterminacy—actions whose results are left open to chance— to make works onstage in front of an audience.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/150143?classifications=any&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2021&direction=fwd&page=3&q=chance&utf8=✓&with_images=1

Shooting Painting American Embassy Niki de Saint Phalle, 1961

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Shooting Painting American Embassy Niki de Saint Phalle, 1961

For her contribution, Saint Phalle hired a sharpshooter to fire a rifle at paint-filled balloons attached to a slab of wood covered in white plaster and paint with various objects encrusted in it; the bursting balloons created streams of brightly colored pigment that poured down over the work’s surface. A toy gun, a bucket seat, a hatchet, and an old shoe are among the items that were absorbed and reimagined as the stuff of painting.

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“There has already been an incident in my sector: Alberto Carneiro’s newspaper mural, meant for the public to write whatever it felt like, was taken down by the direction of SNBA. The main reason: there were already too many insults to the head of State, which is considered a crime, there was also pornography, and other insults, one of them to the sculptor (...) and director of ESBAL Joaquim Correia, provoked threats, the police and the National Council for Education... The matter will be discussed: it will probably be decided that the mural gets renewed and the most serious insults be archived. One can NOT say that antiart, counterculture, neo-Dadaism, protest, or whatever you might call it, are over amongst us. A newspaper gets scrawled and privileges tremble.” Ernesto de Sousa, letter to Carlos Gentil-Homem, July 26th, 1972. https://www.ernestodesousa.com/projects/do-vazio-a-pro-vocacao

Newspaper Mural Alberto Carneiro, 1972

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Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, July-August 1972. Exhibition curated by Ernesto de Sousa and integrated in the Expo AICA 72.

Newspaper Mural Alberto Carneiro, 1972

Participants included Alberto Carneiro, Ana Vieira, António Sena, Carlos Gentil-Homem, Eduardo Nery, Fernando Calhau, Helena Almeida, João Vieira, Lourdes Castro and Nuno de Siqueira.

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Mestrado Design Gráfico _ ESAD.CR IPLeiria _ 2021

serendipity, made by chance - Printed Version Sidónio Silva, 2021

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serendipity, made by chance

Mestrado Design Gráfico _ ESAD.CR IPLeiria _ 2021

serendipity, made by chance - Printed Version Sidónio Silva, 2021

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