Projection:
Albert Einstein’s greatest contribution to humanity is the discovery
that matter and energy are inter-convertible. Matter appears, changes and
disappears. Nothing is solid, not even a rock. The atoms and electrons in
a rock are subtle and alive just as the ocean is. These particles are described
in quantum mechanics by a complex function known as a wavefunction. A wavefunction
contains all the probabilities and energetic possibilities of particles: (space,
energy and sometimes time). These wavefunctions are basically connected and
when two come close, they are both changed. In fact they have a probability
to create nothing: zero.
Zero@wavefunction installation and interactivity is based on the way a nanoscientist
manipulates an individual molecule (billions of times smaller than common
human experience) projected on a monumental scale. When a person passes by,
they cast a larger than life shadow on the molecule and activate responsive
buckyballs. The visualizations are of buckyballs that respond via sensors
to the movement of the person’s shadow and the possibility of manipulating
the molecule emerges.