{Gestures} Towards Nothing: A generative Twitter bot for art/event scores. Scores are intended to be performed, re-performed and perpetually re-created. Also exists as a card deck, a tool used to introduce chance operations into performance workshops and other collective pedalogical processes.

These scored evolved from a desire to shake-up & unlearn what I know as my creative practice. Made during a time when I had no access to a studio or any making facilities, I turned towards chance operations and the mundaness of life as a place to investigate the paradox of art making. To create these prompts I fed an algorithm old Fluxus scores by; ALISON KNOWLES, YOKO ONO, NAM JUIN PAIK, GEORGE BRECHT, ALBERT M. FINE, KEND FRIEDMAN, HI RED CENTER and MILAN KNIZAK, alongside every card from BRIAN ENO/PETER SCHMIDT's OBLIQUE STRATEGIES deck, and some scores for works I had written myself, as well as some nby other Edinburgh Based walking artists such as JONATHAN BAXTER & DEIRDRE MACLEOD. This algorithm creates a collage between these scores, while maintaining a sense of grammar. I ran my algorithm for 3.96 seconds, this produced 1,282 scores. The card deck contains selected scores intended to support cross disciplinary artistic practices and processes, while the Twitter bot is where the algorithm 'lives' tweeting new scores six times a day. Sometimes these scores ask us to reflect, sometimes they propose a problem and sometimes they direct an action or ask us to perform. You could shuffle the deck, drawing one as a creative dilemma arises, or use them quickfire as a creative warm-up exercise, or they could inspire the creation of work more directly. I find it helpful to trust each card/tweet as I come across it. as if there is somthing beyond your chance encounter.