Quantum traces in culture

Creative uncertainty

Authors

  • Diana Maria Gallicchio Domingues Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Pedro Gabriel Ubatuba de Faria Denega Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2024i2930p32-58

Keywords:

art and technoscience, quantum physics, enactive systems, interface science, transdisciplinarity

Abstract

The formulation of quantum theory in the mid-20th century brought about a series of changes in scientific and cultural domains. From the perspective of the arts, the paper analyzesz some propositions of quantum physics, such as the uncertainty on probabilistic bases and emergent states, which alter our view of reality, highlighting their philosophical, historical, epistemological and anthropological impact. The transition between knowledge from various domains and themes between art and technoscience, dialoguing with technologies, generates the transdisciplinarity that manages the current knowledge of a postbiological nature. Questions that go beyond natural existence with technologies add to classical mechanics elements that are components of quantum revolutions, which, at the same time, serve as artistic thinking and resignify ways of living in a humanization and naturalization of technologies through different types of systems and interfaces. We address authorial examples of past experiences in the application of sensors, intelligent systems software with generative and autonomous responses, and even affective enactive systems, in a mutual relationship between organisms, data and the environment, in another type of ecosystem. The essay also provides a historical analysis of some fundamental authors in the field of quantum mechanics and their foundations for art and technoscience. The aim is to illuminate the intricate and often ignored relationship between art, technology and modern physics, highlighting the cultural impact and epistemological innovation arising from quantum physics and the end of certainties.

Author Biographies

Diana Maria Gallicchio Domingues, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Fundadora e diretora do LART e pesquisadora colaboradora no Instituto de Computação da UNICAMP. Com doutorado em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC/SP e pós-doutorado em Arte & Tecnologias da Imagem na Universidade Paris VIII, Professora Colaboradora Plena Sênior do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Eng. Biomédica – FGA Universidade de Brasília – FGA (2010) e do PPG em Ciências e Tecnologias em Saúde – UnB Ceilândia. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0419-5098. E-mail: dgdomingues@gmail.com.

Pedro Gabriel Ubatuba de Faria Denega, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Graduando em Física (bacharelado) na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Bolsista de Iniciação Científica com o projeto “Análise de Interações de QS-21 com Simulações de Dinâmica Molecular”. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6641-4839. E-mail: pedrodenega@gmail.com.

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Published

2025-03-19