Reality is not Always Probable is constructed from tens of thousands of white dice and is generated, line by line, by manually emulating the rules of a simple computer binary programme. Its title references a quote by Jorge Luis Borges, and human anxiety about unpredictability, and the belief that complete knowledge is impossible. The work originates from the artists’ interest in the shift from the material towards the virtual and the digital – towards a new everyday reality, in which the material and immaterial are increasingly interchangeable. The work is part of a recent series of works in which Troika adapt systems and methods, such as computer algorithms and mathematical sequences, to our physical world. Using everyday materials such as copper and high-tech tape, or dice to simulate digital sequences, these works are physical re-enactments of that which is increasingly invisible. Not unlike Vera Molnar’s abstract geometrical and systematically determined paintings, Troika arrive at these ‘logically derived’ compositions by determining the initial conditions or frameworks and introducing an unpredictable element, such as an evolutionary algorithm, from which the unexpected emerges