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Case 04/01. 1 % disorder ↔ lava lamp

1 % беспорядка ↔ лава-лампа

Art

Artist
Vera Molnár
Work
1 % of disorder (Un pour cent de désordre)
Year
1970s

Molnár built strict grids and added one percent of chance. Without it the pattern is dead; with it, alive.

Code

random numbers

Encryption keys are strong only if no one can guess them. Cloudflare films a wall of about a hundred lava lamps and turns the frames into random numbers.

Action

Let a password manager invent your passwords.

Пусть пароли придумывает менеджер паролей, а не вы.

The label in the room

The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.

Molnár added one percent of chance to a strict grid. Chance protects keys too: Cloudflare makes them from lava lamp video. Let a password manager invent your passwords.

Мольнар добавляла в строгую сетку один процент случайности. Случайность защищает и ключи: Cloudflare делает их из видео лава-ламп. Пусть пароли придумывает менеджер паролей, а не вы.

SHA-256 of the Russian label text eeed8675b83a73922f3466c0b39ae88952baee1856bcfbb0f0e8d73c8bdc17dc

In the room

Our generative grid after Molnár and a lava lamp with a webcam

Made by: [ИМЯ КУРАТОРА ЗАЛА 04]

Rights

Permission required

Molnár's works are in copyright: a card with a QR code; the grid is ours

Sources

  1. centrepompidou.fr
  2. blog.cloudflare.com