Infinite Recursive Patterns: Ifá to Artrithmetic

Infinite Recursive Patterns: Ifa to Artrithmetic reframes Yoruba Ifa, not as a closed archive of 256 signs, but as a living engine of generative intelligence—an expansive and expandable logic of patterning that speaks fluently across art, number, code, ontology and cosmology. Moving from one Odù to another, the book proposes unprecedented insights into artrithmetic: a practice where calculation becomes composition, and composition becomes a method of knowing.Through lucid theory, visual thinking, and studio-grounded insightful reflection, Moyo Okediji maps recursion as both cultural technology and contemporary aesthetic strategy—linking divination structures to fractals, rhythm, improvisation, and the disciplined freedom of making. The result is a manifesto and a tool-kit: for artists, scholars, designers, mathematicians, and anyone drawn to the deep grammar of form. At once ancestral and future-facing, Infinite Recursive Patterns invites readers to see pattern as a universal language—and to step into its infinite, renewing conversations.John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji, FNAL, is Professor Emeritus and Director, Federal University Lokoja International Centre of Excellence in Environmental Humanities; former Jay Newman Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, CUNY and a former Guggenheim Research Fellow. Read more