[ARENA] (fwd) open call: Plastik Art&Science

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:36:10 +0800
Subject: open call
From: <plastik.art.science  gmail.com>


open call

To be here and there: general relativity and quantum physics


[Plastik Art&Science]
http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/

The first volume of [Plastik] on line brings together and confronts  
the experiences of artists who illustrate, complete and enrich one of  
the most important ongoing debates in physics today, i.e. the  
incompatibility of quantum theory with general relativity.  General  
relativity is a geometric theory of gravitation, now part of numerous  
applications. Amongst these, the GPS has a temporal correction  
algorithm which is based on the general theory of relativity.   
Although the theory of relativity is able to describe the Universe to  
a large extent, it does not, however, fit in with the Standard Model  
(and its extensions) of particle physics.  Quantum physics, on the  
other hand, can describe the Universe on a microscopic level, and  
depends on the notion of wave-particule duality (quantum particles  
behave as waves and as particles).  The fundamental forces are  
transmitted by particles called "interacting quanta".  The  
applications of quantum physics are omnipresent in post-industrial  
society, most notably through the transistor, the fundamental device  
on which all computers and electronic systems are based, but also  
through LASERs and nanotechnology.

Some innovative theories, such as the quantum theory of gravitation,  
string theory and their extensions, mark a new way of thinking of a  
complete description of the Universe.  The utopian goal consists of  
unifying these two pillars of modern science which are the most  
evolved and the most apt to explain the Universe. In this view it  
would indeed be possible to bring about every physicist's dream of  
unifying in a single theory the ultimate equation that could explain  
the Universe.

Just like physicists, some artists attempt to interpret what is  
infinitely large, while others base their artworks on the infinitely  
small.  The epistemological approaches and visual means used by  
artists to obtain such objectives are radically different.

Artists of today are concerned by the applications of locative media,  
as well as questions of energy, electromagnetic fields and the  
consequences of time-space curvature. Independently of any direct  
collaboration with scientists, avant-garde artists of every era have  
been confronted to the progress of science and its techniques, as  
well as that of languages that are inevitably created for their use.   
Nowadays the same kind of artist continues to search for the artistic  
specificity of scientific discovery, and the possibilities of  
combinations and hybridisation between art and science.  The sciences  
have an active influence on art, but are also decrypted, explored,  
diverted and influenced by artists.  The relationship between art and  
science, which we aim to analyse through this publication, can take  
the form of: a collaboration between artists and scientists -  
appropriation and exploration of scientific procedures by artists -  
visual propositions echoing the scientific problems - scientific  
research based on a hypothesis formulated through a work of art.

Deadline for articles:

Please send your articles by email to plastic.art.science  gmail.com  
before the 15th of June, 2009.




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Olga Kisseleva

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