Break Your Algorithm

Imagine a world where every click, every scroll, every choice has already been predicted for you. Your feed knows you. Your playlist knows you. Even your popcorn knows you. The digital world runs on algorithms, safe, comfortable, predictable.

In my career as a director, I’ve seen the landscape of arts patronage shift. There was a time when if a season delivered 65% of the “comfortable”, the familiar, the expected, audiences would trust the director to bring them the other 35–45%, the moments of surprise and revelation, because they knew I could guide them to the art humans need to experience in their lives. People came for the unknown, confident that it was worth stepping into.

Now, that trust is harder to find. Algorithms have conditioned us to seek only what we already know we like. Safe. Predictable. Expected. And while that makes scrolling easier, it makes experiencing art riskier, and the unexpected rarer.

At the BFAC, we still refuse to surrender to the predictable. We still invite you to break your algorithm. Step into a space where no script predicts your reaction, where every performance is a deliberate glitch in expectation. Music might echo in rhythms you didn’t anticipate. Stories may unfold in ways algorithms could never calculate. Visual art might touch a corner of your mind that even your search history hasn’t reached.

Here, the unknown is not a bug, it’s the feature. You may laugh when you didn’t expect, feel deeply when you thought you wouldn’t, or discover a fascination for something you never knew existed. The algorithms cannot predict this, but your senses will.

So break free from the patterns. Disconnect from predictability. Step into the glitch. Override your comfort zone. Experience something your feed could never deliver.

Because art doesn’t just show you what you already know, it shows you what you never imagined.

# Warning: This experience may cause curiosity, inspiration, and delight.
# Proceed at your own risk.
experience = unexpected()
return experience

Break your algorithm. Discover the unexpected.