Entangled Codes: Quantum Connection
Schedule
Fri Dec 06 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Willem Dreespark 312, 2531 sx The Hague, Netherlands | The Hague, ZH
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On 6th December at iii, Entangled Codes: Quantum Connection focuses on the artists and educators who feel responsible to translate the principles of quantum mechanics to a wide audience. On the 7th December at Stroom, Entangled Codes: Not Rocket Science will showcase a number of practices which expand the imagination of what quantum mechanics could be. Both of these events are connected to More Heat Than Light, the first solo by the Argentinian artist Agustina Woodgate in the Netherlands at Stroom.The Emergence student group from TU Delft have developed eight light sculptures to experience polarisation and superposition. Mike Rijniers presents his Quantum Mirror where we see the artist’s interpretation of a game algorithm translated in a morphing mirror. The Quantum & Arts Research Group from Leiden University and PhD Arts Artistic Research program will showcase a collaborative performance called ‘{ Dis, A } ─ Pearing‘ with multiple parts that relate to the complexity of Quantum Mechanics.
About the Artists:
EMERGENCE
At Emergence, artists, designers and engineers work together in a curiosity-driven, transdisciplinary Research & Development team of students from TU Delft, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (KonCon) and Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE). Emergence acts as a platform for creatives to connect from different disciplines and practices. The goal is to explore the untapped potential in the intersections between Art, Science, Design and Engineering, and generate new artistic instruments to reflect on our evermore Digital Society by shedding light on black-boxed technologies to the general public.
Emergence Delft will present an installation of eight light sculptures, alongside talks and panel discussions. Their goals are threefold: to make Quantum technologies more approachable and intuitive, to challenge the future of effective science and tech communication, and to foster discussions about global collaborations in quantum technology.
MIKE RIJNIERS
Mike Rijnierse is an artist, inventor, curator and educator sculpting light and sound into spatial experience. Intrigued by our sensory structures, Rijnierse composes with and for the environment, creating spatial dialogues. He has exhibited his works throughout Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Brazil, in contexts such as media art festivals, museums, galleries, sculpture gardens and urban spaces.
The work he will be presenting was created with creative coder and long time collaborator Rob Bothof. Rob Bothof developed the cutout pattern used. The pattern is generated by an algorithmic function that generates countless versions at will. Each edition of Quantum Mirror thus features a unique pattern, materialized in stainless steel and rosewood.
Quantum Mirror is a sculpture that brings the concept of quantum states to life through the gaze of two observers. It invites the observers to stand in front of each other and look through the perforated mirror. The image formed is the unstable combination of their images. The uncanny feeling of seeing one’s own face blended with another, gazing at each other, is at once intimate and disconcerting. The design on the double-sided mirror is generated by an algorithm based on wave function collapse, a mathematical model describing quantum superposition. When two viewers stand opposite each other, their simultaneous observation briefly merges into a single image, evoking the concept of superposition in quantum physics—the idea that subatomic particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously until observed, at which point the superposition collapses.
QUANTUM & ARTS RESEARCH GROUP
Quantum & Arts Research Group is a collaboration between PhD Arts and Leiden Quantum Physics Lab. Composed of Anke Haarmann, Alexander Cromer, Christine Rafflenbeul, Eloïc Vallée, Esther Cruz Rico, Jordi Tura Brugués, Luiz Zanotello, Martine Schut, Patrick Emonts.
In their performances, they will re-enact their own particular methods of making a pear ‘dis-a-pear’. At what moments do their practices of research meet, emerge, and intra-act? What kinds of performativities are not incidental, but fundamental to the generation of knowledge among the two, as well as the collective eyes of an audience?
Between the fringes of Artistic Research and Quantum Physics, they have come to observe the strange occurrence of a pear that dis-a-pears. Here we take a step back and see: a pear that dis-a-pears brings joy and imagination to the peers in discussion to the point of lowest resistance, or superconductivity.
Event is curated by: Leon Lapa Pereira
Curator Leon Lapa Pereira is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans. Through anthropomorphising, methods, relational worlds and biological processes are translated into movement, robotic agents and performances. Besides his practice within performance, he co-founded the WASTELAND Festival, the interdisciplinary residency program Resonant Bodies in Georgia, is a teacher at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and a Creative Producer at the Embassy of the North Sea. Within his new position as the coordinator of the PhDArts program in Leiden and Den Haag he explores the interest in Artistic Research and performance.
This program is financially supported by Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.
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Where is it happening?
Willem Dreespark 312, 2531 sx The Hague, Netherlands, Willem Dreespark 312, 2531 SX Den Haag, Nederland,The Hague, NetherlandsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
