Quantum Logos (vision serpent) on Media Art Nexus Singapore

Art Intervention and Screening at the Media Art Nexus Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 24 April 2021

Going beyond the limitations of classical logic, this film uses images as poetry to represent the quantum world. Using cultural icons to create visual metaphors to explore and discover to communicate quantum physics’s counterintuitive and contradictory beauty.

READ ON SUBSTACK: Rethinking Quantum Realities by Mark Chavez with a Decolonial Perspective

Quantum Logos is an immersive, reactive audio-visual experience that explores the fundamentals of quantum theory through cultural archetypes. Using cutting-edge real-time animation techniques, we attempt to shed new light on fundamental natural phenomena, confirming scientific observations that raise questions about the nature of existence. The works were first shown in 2019 in Linz, Austria, at the Ars Electronica Festival Deep Space 8k Theater as an immersive projection on a 16 x 9-meter wall, accompanied by a 16 x 9-meter floor projection with interactive laser tracking.
The animation was also adapted for large-scale LED media display (15m by 2m) in public at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore and screened in April 2021.

Credits: Director and Animation by Mark Chavez (US), Executive Producer Ina Conradi (SG), Music by EGON (US), Sci-Art producers Bianka Hofmann (DE), Bob Kastner (AU)

Press

” You understand nothing when it comes to quantum physics? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! The Quantum Travelers are using artistic means to get to the bottom of this difficult matter with their Deep Space project “Quantum Logos” at the Ars Electronica Festival. We talked to the Quantum Travelers and experienced what awaits us at the Ars Electronica Festival.”

Quantum Logos – An artistic Approach to Quantum Physics
Ars Electronica Blog | Sep 4, 2019 | by Magdalena Sick-Leitner | Reading time: about 6 minutes

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