Charles:
Right. You pull the image back together again. It gets closer back to the representational image and what becomes the drawing or the so-called aesthetic object is, as far as I am concerned, not just scrambled or realistic image but this entire process going from what appears to be a disordered image back to progressively a more ordered one.

Arthur:
You could programme a whole year's work this way.

Charles:
Yes. and every time you get a different image.

Arthur:
Suppose you did this, just to create a problem for the critics!

Charles:
You could certainly do this by writing one programme and letting it run all year long.

Arthur:
And then you have a one-man show with the output of, say, half the year, and in the second half of the year you have another show. And the critics will look it over and decide 'Well. Csuri is getting better'.

Charles:
What this would mean is: his random numbers are falling better for him. No, I think if you are a well-known artist you could pull it off, you really could. And you can do it two years in a row and go and live in the Hawaiian Islands, then come back and write another programme and take off once more. You know, it does become a little absurd to say the least.

May I introduce a very fanciful notion? It's something I've just thought of recently. I was talking to someone about the future of computers and what one might be able to do, and I simply said, well, I think that in time the artist will sit down and think about a picture and then a computer will translate his brain impulses into a picture. Actually draw a picture!

And I thought this was sort of ridiculous, you know, sort of Buck Rogers type of thing-twenty-fifth century-and then several days later I sat down and started to think. I wonder how you would even approach the problem? And it occurred to me I that there is a way of getting at it. And this I has to do with the study of brain waves and the electroencephalogram, and what I thought I might do-in fact, I was on my way to the library when you called, to get this book. ... The brain waves are extremely complex, although most people are only familiar with the alpha or beta brain waves. Is that what they're called? I'm not really sure.