{"product_id":"quantum-art-uncertainty-9781783209019","title":"Quantum Art \u0026 Uncertainty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the core of both art and science we find the twin forces of probability and uncertainty. However, these two worlds have been tenuously entangled for decades. On the one hand, artists continue to ask complex questions that align with a scientific fascination with new discoveries, and on the other hand, it is increasingly apparent that creativity and subjectivity inform science's objective processes and knowledge systems.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn order to draw parallels between art, science and culture, this publication will explore the ways that selected art works have contributed to a form of cultural pedagogy. It follows the integration of culture and science in artists' expressions to create meaningful experiences that expose the probabilities and uncertainties equally present in the world of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'In 2014 the seminal “Nanoart: The Immateriality of Art” book was published, investigating the connections among artworks using physics at nanoscale to question our senses and the perception of ‘constructions’ in space. Paul Thomas has authored this new book, progressing his investigation in different directions. Quantum Art \u0026amp; Uncertainty allows his early interest about quantum theory to be fully articulated in his impact on how we understand reality, and how correlated artworks have conceptually expanded its revolutionary potential. The world of quanta is counter-intuitive and relies on mathematical probabilities, so it imposes since the beginning a new way of thinking, like in the classic challenging example of superposition (a particle being in two places at the same time). The imperceptible world of quantum and the invisibility of the elements inducing our perceptions are so close to the world of invisible presences behind the screens. If the underlying scenario is to relate to “probability and uncertainty”, understanding artists navigating “the visual unknown and the void” and we have to think “between human and non-human” then we can start to easily share Thomas’ intuition that the ’cloud’ is legitimised by quantum, immersing in his intriguing overall discourse about (as Thomas Morton defines it in the foreword) “the power of uncertainty.”'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural magazine, March 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This stimulating book, whose powerful three page introduction by Timothy Morton is itself almost a reason to buy it, deals with the power of fragile uncertainty, the inbetween-ness of things, as exemplified in various artworks and in the speculative thought and art of Paul Thomas... Thomas's book is an insight into art as reflection of, and stimulus to think about, our flickering lives in a flickering universe, via art. Immateriality precludes neither performativeness nor political action... It helps that this book does not only describe the interactions between what we might call quantum awareness and art, but via Thomas's words and works also points to directions in which a rather new art might wend its uncertain way.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Brian Reffin Smith, Leonardo Reviews, December 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eForeword \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBetween Nothingness and Eternity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Morton\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e The Quantum Atmospherics of Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: The Swerve\u003c\/strong\u003e Agency of the swerve \u003cbr\u003e Measurement and control \u003cbr\u003e The Solvay rupture \u003cbr\u003e Capturing reality \u003cbr\u003e The unpredictable swerve \u003cbr\u003e Counterfactual definiteness of art \u003cbr\u003e Swerve speed \u003cbr\u003e Quantum biology   \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: The Diagram\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Convergence \u003cbr\u003e Diagram and the new language \u003cbr\u003e The line \u003cbr\u003e The flexible diagram \u003cbr\u003e Entanglement and space \u003cbr\u003e Multiverse \u003cbr\u003e Multiverse and parallel worlds \u003cbr\u003e Probability of facts \u003cbr\u003e In aid of the diagram Photonic traces \u003cbr\u003e Bergson’s diagram and quantum parallels \u003cbr\u003e Bacon’s synergies   \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: Spin\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Quantum spin \u003cbr\u003e The creativity of the spin \u003cbr\u003e Quantum consciousness \u003cbr\u003e Consciousness and the swerve \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Graphene Moment \u003cbr\u003e The genealogy of graphite \u003cbr\u003e The haptic Atomic Force Microscope \u003cbr\u003e Agency and mediums \u003cbr\u003e The art of graphite\u003cbr\u003e Drawing out \u003cbr\u003e Performative agency  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5: Cloud \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The itinerant cloud \u003cbr\u003e Shifting power of perspective \u003cbr\u003e Pre-cloud conscious \u003cbr\u003e Repositioning the cloud \u003cbr\u003e The machinic whole \u003cbr\u003e Engineer’s perspective \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eConclusion \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFragments \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eReferences \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor’s Biography \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIndex\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042268840279,"sku":"9781783209019","price":35.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783209019.jpg?v=1750953704","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quantum-art-uncertainty-9781783209019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}