Quantum Entanglement
Organisers:
LABORATORIA Art&Science Foundation
FUTUREEVERYTHING Moscow
Curators:
Daria Parkhomenko
Tom Higham
Scientific advisor:
Prof Alexander Lvovsky, University of Calgary (Canada), Russian Quantum Center
Artists:
::vtol:: (Russia)
Dmitry Kawarga (Russia)
Electroboutique (Russia)
Memo Akten (UK/Turkey)
Semiconductor (UK)
Sergey Shutov (Russia)
Where Dogs Run (Russia)
With the support of:
FutureEverything
British Council
UK-Russia Cross Cultural Year 2014
Technical partner: Panasonic
The architecture of the exhibition: MEL Studio
Partners:
Technical Partner:
Supported by:
Science Partner:
“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them…”
Niels Bohr
To which degree is our reality objective? Are there parallel worlds existing,in which all our missed opportunities are realized, or on the contrary, thefears which we have overcome? Why is there only one direction in which time isprogressing? And finally, is the Schrödinger’s cat alive?
Quantum Entanglement
Exposition view
Photo: Yuri Palmin
::vtol:: (Russia)
Metaphase Sound Machine, 2014
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA FutureEverything и Laboratoria Art&Space
FUTURA (USA)
Secret Mission, 2014
acryl on canvas
Photo: Yuri Palmin
::vtol:: (Russia)
Metaphase Sound Machine, 2014
kinetic audio installation: Geiger counter, multichannel sound synthesis system.
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Where Dogs Run (Russia)
1,4…19, 2014
generative installation: mouse, robotic maze, camera, projection
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Dmitry Kawarga (Russia)
Object-antiobject. Superposition, 2014
robotiс objects
Sergey Shutov (Russia)
Entanglemented, 2014
Projects are co-commissioned by FutureEverything and Laboratoria Art&Science Space
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Dmitry Kawarga (Russia)
Object-antiobject. Superposition, 2014
robotiс objects
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Memo Akten (UK / Turkey)
Equilibrium, 2014
interactive touch-screen video installation, custom software
Semiconductor (UK)
20Hz, 2011
3D video installation
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Semiconductor (UK)
20Hz, 2011
3D video installation
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Semiconductor (UK)
20Hz, 2011
3D video installation
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Electroboutique (Russia)
Visual Uncertainty, 2014
Sergey Shutov (Russia)
The Butterfly Effect, 2014
video installation, 4 min.
Projects are co-commissioned by FutureEverything and Laboratoria Art&Science Space
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Electroboutique (Russia)
Visual Uncertainty, 2014
Interactive installation
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Mach-Zehnder interferometer
kindly provided by Russian Quantum Center.
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Mach-Zehnder interferometer
kindly provided by Russian Quantum Center.
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Where Dogs Run (Russia)
1,4…19, 2014
generative installation: mouse, robotic maze, camera, projection
Photo: Yuri Palmin
Quantum Entanglement
Exposition view
Photo: Yuri Palmin
LABORATORIA Art&Science Space (Moscow) and FutureEverything (Manchester) with the support of the British Council in Russia present the art and science exhibition “Quantum Entanglement”, which will feature Russian and British artists. Most of the works have been created especially for the exhibition. With this project we open a scientific-artistic discussion platform and residency together with the Russian Quantum Center.
Even scientists find quantum phenomena ‘confusing’, having a hard time reconciling them with common sense. However, if you think about it, in many ways our everyday life is like that. And it is the phenomenon of entanglement – one of the dizzyingly complex quantum phenomena – that many of us may find strangely familiar. And some of us might say that we have experienced it personally.
Quantum Entanglement is one of the most unbelievable and even romantic phenomenon of the quantum physics. The particles may get “entangled” while being in certain conditions very close to each other, and once set apart, they mysteriously continue to influence each other even through infinite distances.
And this is not simply a theoretical assumption, but a proved experiment. For instance, in 2008 a research team headed by Anton Zeilinger (Austria) managed to set entangled photons 144 km apart, and in spite of the distance, observe their correlation.
Existing since the beginning of 20th century, the quantum theory goes far beyond our conventional picture of the world. Now this is an area that reveals us the unknown, new horizons for exploration, which is similar to the artistic approach.
Both artists and scientists experiment with materials and physical phenomena, expanding our understanding of the world, thus making the invisible visible.
ARTWORKS
::vtol:: (Russia)
Metaphase Soundmachine, 2014
kinetic audio installation: Geiger counter, multichannel sound synthesis system
It is a tribute to the ideas of American quantum physicist Nick Herbert who created in 70s the apparatus “Metaphase Typewriter” and “Metaphone” speech synthesizer. It was one of the first, even though unsuccessful, attempts to implement the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, and one of the first steps on the way to creation of the quantum computer. Metaphase soundmachine is a 5-channel kinetic/cybernetic sound object where the sound is generated based on the feedback from the Geiger counter that registers the radiation of particles in the surrounding environment.
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space.
Where Dogs Run (Russia)
1,4…19, 2014
generative installation: mouse, robotic maze, camera, projection
The artists explore the mechanisms of the construction of reality. The mouse crawls through the robotic maze, choosing its route as it goes, while all missed opportunities turn into virtual mice. On the screen projection viewer can observe how the past, present, and future are co-existing in one reality plane.
FUTURA (USA)
Secret Mission, Three Sisters, 2014
canvas, acrylic
A legend of American graffiti, Futura is known for his abstract works.
А what could be more abstract than our idea of the subatomic world? It really exists, but we can only guess what electrons, protons, neutrinos, quarks… actually look like.
One of the series the artist creates both on street walls and on canvases – in these spontaneous, intuitive works he conveys a sense of the atomic world. Futura can be said to be an example of how the ‘quantum revolution’ permeates the artistic medium and influences the poetic subconscious, although this influence is not always conscious. Works provided for the exhibition by the Foundation BELIEF.
Semiconductor (UK)
20Hz, 2011
3D video installation
It is a 3D video work observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, the visitor hears tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of perception.
Memo Akten (UK/Turkey)
Equilibrium, 2014
It is an interactive abstraction, a fragile structure, snapshot of a moment of harmony amongst chaos and disorder. As the viewers move the ‘affectors’ around with his fingers, disturb the balance and watch the system fall into chaos. After a while, the system settles and reconfigures itself to find a new balance, form a new structure, a new equilibrium.
Dmitry Kawarga (Russia)
Object- Antiobject. SUPERPOSITION, 2014 robotiс objects
Two robotic objects oppose each other – one consists of smooth regular cubes, the second one is a slimy amorphous lump made of polyurethane. They both are entangled by a variety of measuring devices, and at the first sight they form a closed system, but in fact they interact not only with each other but also with spectator’s behaviour. Variable vibration, humidity, pressure, distance, movement, sound, light, the temperature of one of the objects are transferred to the movement activity of another, which in turn affects the first object.
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space.
Electroboutique (Russia)
Visual Uncertainty, 2014
interactive installation
It is a “magic glass” that allows the viewer to see the invisible, unveiling one more visual “layer” to the reality. Viewer is placed in “visual uncertainty”, where he can be present in two different visual environments simultaneously. At first sight, the projections appear blank, but projection wall is painted with special paint that reveals the colorful picture when it is seen through the “magic” glass…
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space.
Sergey Shutov (Russia)
The Butterfly Effect, 2014
video installation, 4 min
According to chaos theory, the world in general, and humans in particular, have an incredible sensitivity to the preservation of the initial conditions of any dynamic system. This phenomenon is called the ‘butterfly effect’ after Ray Bradbury’s short story of the same name, in which an insignificant insect crushed by a careless traveller in the past triggers a radically different scenario. Unless you are on an island of stability, a nudge in the back leads to unpredictable consequences (‘spin’ is also a quantum characteristic). The entangled individual exhibits chaotic behaviour. In turn, the control of quantum entanglement discovered by E. Ripper in human DNA is the subject of this series of graphics and videos. Perhaps human physiology is already ready to control spacetime.
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space.
Sergey Shutov (Russia)
Entanglemented, 2014
graphic art, mixed media 86 x 61
The project is co-commissioned by FutureEverything and LABORATORIA Art&Science Space
Mach-Zehnder interferometer
kindly provided by Russian Quantum Center
Mach-Zehnder interferometer is one of the simplest devices for observing the phenomenon of light interference. At the input of the interferometer is a translucent mirror that splits the light stream into two beams. They are brought together after reflection from two opaque mirrors on another translucent mirror. The light waves that have travelled along the two paths add up, amplifying or suppressing each other.
Despite its simplicity, this device is actively used in science and technology, e.g. for plasma and gas flow analysis, trace gas detection, and in quantum optics experiments at the Russian Quantum Centre.
FutureEverything – is an innovation lab for digital culture and annual festival, established in Manchester in 1995. For 20 years FutureEverything has been exploring the meeting point of technology, society and culture which lies at the heart of the digital debate.
Exhibitions
Incubator eng
Incubator eng
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Exhibitions