Looking Outwards -02

The series of works I picked is “Quantum Superpositions” made by Markos Kay. These generative art pieces were created using a simulation that is inspired by the events in the Large Hadron Collider, but all the imagery is original and not actual images from the Collider. The artist used an original simulator to generate the images and then superimposed them on each other to represent different quantum properties.

I find this piece to be really interesting because of the interdisciplinary nature combining aspects of quantum mechanics and digital art. These pieces come together in a way that is visually striking, especially considering the complexity and randomness of the generated images that are overlayed.

Markos Kay’s body of work is composed of mostly video art which differs from this series of stills. While the stills are all pulled from video simulations, the intricacies of the particle interactions and the complicated quantum mechanics are better represented in the superimposed images that the artist has created.

Link to the artist’s website: https://www.mrkism.com/superpositions.html