[spectre] (fwd) open call: Plastik Art&Science
Andreas Broeckmann
ab at mikro.in-berlin.de
Mon May 11 13:57:18 CEST 2009
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:36:10 +0800
Subject: open call
From: <plastik.art.science at 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 at gmail.com before the 15th of
June, 2009.
Rédaction [Plastik]
plastik.art.science at gmail.com
CERAP - Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
47 rue des Bergers 75015 Paris - France
Olga Kisseleva
olga.kisseleva at univ-paris1.fr
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