Hyejo Seo-Looking Outwards 12

For my final project, I want to create an interactive art that takes the viewer to different places. One project I found that was inspiring is the Quantum Fluctuations: Experiments in Flux that was created by Markos Kay. As a digital artist who is fascinated by science, this project depicts the “complexity and transient nature of the most fundamental aspect of reality”: the Quantum world. Kay worked with several scientists working on the Large Hardon Collider at the CERN, Geneva for this project. Using the particle simulations that were done by a supercomputer as his brush and paint, he created digital art that shows what happens during a proton collision. This project stood out since he is showcasing a natural phenomenon in rather artificial manner. All the sceneries in Howl’s Moving Castle (my project) are dreamy and exaggerated realities. Given the fictional context, I hope to depict reality yet in dream-like manner similar to Kay’s project.

Second project I found was the Cloud Portal installation by Ned Kahn in San Francisco, CA. Kahn also explores the interdisciplinary field of art and science. He is specifically interested in the fluid motion of water, fog, sand and light, which he uses to depict the complex and continually changing systems. His project, Cloud Portal, is constructed with stacked horizontal sheets of stainless steel, and mist that represents the cloud appears from the central void of the portal. This project reminded me of Berndnaut Smilde’s cloud installations. 

 

Although Kahn’s works are physical installations in contrast to the digital art by Kay, they both illustrate our scientific reality by recreating natural phenomenon artificially.