A player for stored music, as well as Internet radio streams. This music device is controlled by coded golf balls. A detailed description can be found here on the project page . Why there? Because this object is one of my many personal projects and not considered as Art by me.
From 01.02. until 23.02.2020 the exhibition and conference “CHAOS Method” in St. Petersburg, Russia will run at the Central Museum of Communication. I exhibit my kinetic light object “Quantom” there and talk about quantum art, spirituality and mysticism on the podium at 5 p.m. on 08.02.2020.
I was invited to curate an exhibition in the project room “DISKURS” and am looking forward to the opening of the now built exhibition: SUPERPOSITION on 22.01.2020 at 7 pm.
SUPERPOSITION shows radical positions about the perception from the field of Science Art / Art and Science of me and the artists:
Lucas Buschfeld
Edith Kollath
Sebastian Wolf
SUPERPOSITION runs until 29.02.2020. The opening hours can be found on the website of Diskurs.
Here is my text about the exhibition:
The
philosopher William von Occam recommended in the Middle Ages to free
philosophy from all superfluous things with
a razor knife, in essence to pursue the simplest explanation in the
sense of coherence. This is a method which is nowadays commonly used
when we perceive the “real world” because it makes life much
easier and frees us from the need to weigh up the countless
possibilities that present themselves at each and every moment. But
consequently, this ease carries with it a big disadvantage:
According to today’s knowledge in theoretical and experimental physics, the material from which everything originated and originates carries the fundamental property of possibility in itself. The fundament of all is probability and not absolute clarity. We know this from quantum physics research of the past 100 years, due to the groundbreaking thoughts and theories of Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and many others. According to them, by renouncing possibilities, one actually destroys the possibilities if one does not consider them.
Take
the thought experiment of Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.
In the hypothesis a cat is enclosed in a
box containing a deadly mechanism, there is a 50% probability the
mechanism will be trigged sometime or never and leads to the realization
that one does not know whether the cat is alive or not, as
long as one does not look inside the box. The cat, in this thought
experiment, is in a state of superposition, of being and non-being. In
the 1805 famous double-slit experiment this even became and
becomes visible, because here light occurs simultaneously as both a
particle and a wave and completely contradicts our perception that
something can only be one single thing in one solid-state at the
same time.
Indeed,
the observation, the measurement, the “looking” or “perception”
destroys the superposition and forms a
concrete manifestation. Like a breaking wave, the probability wave
collapses and forms the unambiguous reality. The cat is alive! …and
there is no separation between the observer and the
observed… The destructive power of observation therefore also leads to
genesis, to emergence, to the crystallization of safety in the quantum
foam of possibilities.
Another
Nobel Prize winner, nobody less than Albert Einstein himself, could not
believe this, as it shook his
ingenious space-time construct of the theory of relativity. He asked,
“is the moon there when I’m not looking at it?” and later he continued
on the subject of “God doesn’t roll a dice!”. We now know,
yes, the moon is actually there, because it is constantly “measured” by
subatomic and wave interactions and as Niels Bohr replied: “whether God
rolls the dice or not, only God decides because he
makes the rules”.
With the works of the participating artists, the exhibition “SUPERPOSITION” aims to focus on the aspect of reality formation through observation. The critical perception of the exhibited works leads to the formation of experiences, this is exactly what the works invite us to. In addition to their typical artistic, sculptural, technical structure, the installations have a narrative level that unfolds inside the viewer. This is a core component of the art movement “Science Art”, which can be experienced here, if one is willing to perceive it and, as a consequence, is given the opportunity to discover new realities.
Enjoy the journey of your discoveries!
Olaf Schirm
For the first time I show the kinetic sound installation:
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