Ian Cheng
Entropy Wrangler, 2013
Live simulation, infinite duration, sound
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Entropy Wrangler should be presented with the perspective that it is fundamentally a work of software: this is its genotype. Cheng’s Entropy Wrangler is a program that generates a tornado-like...
Entropy Wrangler should be presented with the perspective that it is fundamentally a work of software: this is its genotype.
Cheng’s Entropy Wrangler is a program that generates a tornado-like destructive vortex with a high propensity to disorder and randomness. It consists of a system that produces a constant state of chaos in which various bodies float in an abstract environment. In it persons, animals, and things are propelled into space and are subjected to fortuitous collisions. Deprived of any function, characteristic movement, and setting, these figures react to touch in different ways, and the tension that results from their interaction generates additional chaos and movement.
Cheng’s Entropy Wrangler is a program that generates a tornado-like destructive vortex with a high propensity to disorder and randomness. It consists of a system that produces a constant state of chaos in which various bodies float in an abstract environment. In it persons, animals, and things are propelled into space and are subjected to fortuitous collisions. Deprived of any function, characteristic movement, and setting, these figures react to touch in different ways, and the tension that results from their interaction generates additional chaos and movement.
Exhibitions
Dreams That Money Can’t Buy, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 12 March - 18 April 2015International Women’s Day, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, 8 March 2014 - 5 April 2014
The Time Machine (The Survivors), Cura Basement, Rome, 21 November - 21 December 2013
Freak Out, Greene Naftali, New York, 27 June - 9 August 2013
ProBio, MoMA Ps1, New York, 12 May 2013 - 2 September 2013
HMV, Foxy Productions, New York, 29 March - 4 May 2013
Entropy Wrangler, Off Vendome, Dusseldorf, 22 March 2013 - 4 May 2013