Consciousness, quantum mechanics and the Metaphase Typewriter revival project
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Mary Rosengren and Cris Kennedy
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I make artwork that engages with quantum mechanics to enable the viewer to doubt conventional reality. Quantum mechanics gives significant cause to doubt conventional reality. Rather than reality being knowable, objective and mind-independent, one quantum theory poses the confronting possibility that reality is brought into existence through observations, even, controversially, by consciousness. My 'mind works' projects, one of which is the Metaphase Typewriter revival project, enables a viewer to doubt conventional reality. Specifically, the 'mind works' projects do this by providing the viewer opportunities to interact with events of quantum superposition, using only consciousness, to arguably affect or even create material reality.
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SPECTRA: images and data in art/science The currency of images in the studio and laboratory
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© The Author(s) 2014. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference's website or contact the author.
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Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)