| Ed Atkins ENTROPY OF A BIASED COIN | Cabinet 132 Tyers Street Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London |
| December 03 – February 06, 2021 |
Refuse.exe, the projected element and main piece of Entropy of a Biased Coin – Ed Atkin’s new show at Cabinet – is a two-channel real-time 3D simulation, authored in a custom version of the Unreal Engine: a software development environment used to make video games. The artwork is one work, split across two screens – the upper screen in the ground floor gallery, the lower screen in the basement gallery.
Ed Atkins: ENTROPY OF A BIASED COIN at Cabinet 
Ed Atkins: ENTROPY OF A BIASED COIN at Cabinet 
Ed Atkins: ENTROPY OF A BIASED COIN at Cabinet 
Ed Atkins: ENTROPY OF A BIASED COIN at Cabinet
Objects fall through the upper screen, freezing momentarily, before continuing their descent, eventually landing in the basement. Refuse.exe is not a video, it’s an app, running on a high-end custom PC and each run-through of Refuse.exe is unique. The objects drop in the same sequence and at the same time per play through – but their movement while dropping, their landing, and their accumulation differ every time, at the whim of the physics simulated. In addition to the above two-channel projection, the shows includes a number of new drawings and embroideries on fabric, on view from December 3 until February 6, 2021.
