Quantum art and uncertainty / Paul Thomas
- Bib ID:
- 7889285
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Thomas, Paul, author
- Description:
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- Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2018
- ©2018
- xi, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 1783209011 (paperback)
- 9781783209019 (paperback)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781783209033 (electronic book)
- 9781783209026 (electronic publication)
- Summary:
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At the core of both art and science we find the twin forces of probability and uncertainty. However, these two worlds have been tenuously entangled for decades. On the one hand, artists continue to ask complex questions that align with a scientific fascination with new discoveries, and on the other hand, it is increasingly apparent that creativity and subjectivity inform science's objective processes and knowledge systems. In order to draw parallels between art, science, and culture, this publication will explore the ways that selected art works have contributed to a form of cultural pedagogy. It follows the integration of culture and science in artists' expressions to create meaningful experiences that expose the probabilities and uncertainties equally present in the world of science. --Back cover
- Full contents:
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- Foreword Between Nothingness and Eternity / Timothy Morton
- Introduction The Quantum Atmospherics of Conciousness
- ch. 1 The Swerve
- Agency of the swerve
- Measurement and control
- The Solvay rupture
- Capturing reality
- The unpredictable swerve
- Counterfactual definiteness of art
- Swerve speed
- Quantum biology
- ch. 2 The Diagram
- Convergence
- Diagram and the new language
- The line
- The flexible diagram
- Entanglement and space
- Multiverse
- Multiverse and parallel worlds
- Probability of facts
- In aid of the diagram
- Photonic traces
- Bergson's diagram and quantum parallels
- Bacon's synergies
- ch. 3 Spin
- Quantum spin
- The creativity of the spin
- Quantum consciousness
- Consciousness and the swerve
- ch. 4 The Graphene Moment
- The genealogy of graphite
- The haptic Atomic Force Microscope
- Agency and mediums
- The art of graphite
- Drawing out
- Performative agency
- ch. 5 Cloud
- The itinerant cloud
- Shifting power of perspective
- Pre-cloud conscious
- Repositioning the cloud
- The machinic whole
- Engineer's perspective
- Conclusion Fragments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-170) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Morton, Timothy, 1968-, writer of foreword
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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