The ATS Lecture Series will present “Quantum Sensitivity,” a talk by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand this Friday, October 6th at 4:15 in the Flex Space. Please spread the word about this exciting event!
Quantum Sensitivity
Friday, October 6, 2017 at 4:15
ATS Flex Space
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand create immersive art installations and performances integrating exotic physical phenomena,. The duo will discuss their explorations of sonoluminescence, electrodynamic and acoustic levitation, as well as their recent artist residency at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory).
About the Artists
Dmitry Gelfand (b.1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Evelina Domnitch (b. 1972, Minsk,Belarus) create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Current findings, particularlyregarding wave phenomena, are employed by the artists to investigate questions of perception and perpetuity. Such investigations are salient because the scientific picture of the world, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, still cannot encompass the unrecordable workings of consciousness.
Having dismissed the use of recording and fixative media, Domnitch and Gelfand’s installations exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen phenomena take place directly in front of the observer without being
intermediated, they often serve to vastly extend one’s sensory threshold. The immediacy of this experience allows the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion.
In order to engage such ephemeral processes, the duo has collaborated with numerous scientific research facilities, including the Drittes Physikalisches Institut (Goettingen University, Germany), the Institute of Advanced Sciences and Technologies (Nagoya), Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the European Space Agency. They are recipients of the Japan Media Arts Excellence Prize (2007), and five Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions (2007, 2009, 2011,2013, and 2017).
