“There must be order”

A talk by Mario Klingemann at Eyeo 2015. It’s focused on the concept of order, which you might think is an odd topic for a generative artist. Isn’t order the exact opposite of the chaotic randomness that powers procedural generation?

But maybe not if you’ve been paying attention: a theme I’ve tried to emphasize these past few months is that procedural generation shouldn’t just be random chaos: it needs a degree of order to give us humans something to latch on to.