An academic talk and the subsequent discussion is a public display of an otherwise mostly closed-door affair, and it exposes the complex nature of the creation of knowledge. Projections is a series of paintings aiming to give visual representation to academic talks, mostly on the topics of physics and philosophy of physics. In a way, each Projection is a field report of my experience of a talk, which itself is a multidimensional beast existing in a space that exceeds the four-dimensional confines of a conference room. The talk is diffracted by my own sensibilities and projected onto the paper in real time. Some pieces are the projections of the abstract conceptual world of our models of reality and their symbolic representations: String, Loop, Set; Zero, Asymptotic, Infinity; State, Superposition, Entanglement. Others capture the emotional and the social dimensions of the talk: Enthusiasm, Self-doubt, Bravado; Camaraderie, Conflict, Agreement; Confusion, Insight, Understanding. Most of the Projections , however, are half-profiles: Confinement, Freedom, Exclusion; Interaction, Interference, Perturbation; Uncertainty, Confidence, Safety.
I’ve held two artist residencies as part of this project, one at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Center for Philosophy and History of Science
Artwork made during the residency at the Perimeter Institute is on permanent display at the institute and was featured in the Fall 2018 edition of Inside Perimeter.
Select projections can be bought as prints on Society6.com: https://society6.com/kacabradonjic .
100 YEARS OF EMMY NOETHER’S THEOREMS Boston Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Science Boston University, Center for Philosophy and History of Science Boston, MA November 30, 2018
“Katherine Brading, ‘How It All Began: The Puzzle That Led to Noether’s Theorems’”
“Daniel Harlow, ‘Noether’s Theorem and Quantum Gravity’”
“Colin McLarty, ‘The Conservation Theorems as Integral to Noether’s “True Mathematical Path”‘”
“Marian Gilton, ‘Conserving Color Charge’”
EMERGENCE, EFFECTIVENESS, AND EQUIVALENCE IN PHYSICS Boston Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Science Boston University, Center for Philosophy and History of Science Boston, MA October 19, 2018
“Doreen Fraser,
‘Formal Analogies and Theoretical Equivalence’”
“Sebastian De Haro,
‘Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences’ 2”
“Sebastian De Haro,
‘Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences’ 1”
“Karen Crowther,
‘Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity’ 2”
“Karen Crowther,
‘Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity’ 1”
“Jeremy Butterfield,
‘Equivalence and Emergence within Dualities in Physics'”
ASYMPTOTIC SAFETY IN A DARK UNIVERSE Perimeter Institute Waterloo, ON, Canada June 5-7, 2018
“Niayesh Afshordi, ‘Cosmological non-Constant Problem'”
“Anders Eller Thomsen, Beta functions at large N f”
“Daniel Litim, ‘Asymptotic safety with and without supersymmetry'”
“Francesco Sannino, ‘Charting Fundamental Interactions’, 2”
“Manuel Reichert, ‘Asymptotic safety of gravity-matter systems and effective universality'”
“Robert Mann, ‘Keeping the Standard Model Safe'”
“Masatoshi Yamanda, ‘Asymptotically safe gravity and electroweak scalegenesis'”
“Nicola Dondi,
Constraining Asymptotic Safety using central charges”
“Steven Abel, ‘Progress in constructing an Asymptotically safe Standard Model’, 1 “
“Steven Abel, ‘Progress in constructing an Asymptotically safe Standard Model’, 2 “
“Francesco Sannino, ‘Charting Fundamental Interactions’, 1”
“Astrid Eichhorn, Shedding light on dark matter in asymptotic safety”
“Zhi-Wei Wang, ‘Asymptotically Safe Grand Unified Theories'”
“ASIDU, Group Discussion 1”
“ASIDU, Group Discussion 2”
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “EDUCATION AND GENDER EQUALITY” Organized by The Suzy Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College , Consulate General of France in Boston , and Sciences Po Paris . Wellesley College
Hélène Périvier, “Gender-based statistics”
Closing Remarks by Valéry Freland, Consul General of France in Boston
COSMOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF SPACETIME Rotman Institute of Philosophy Western University London, ON, Canada June 12-14, 2017
Robert Brandenberger, “Emergent space and its possible observational signatures”
Tessa Baker, “Agnostic Tests of Gravity”
Lee Smolin, “Galaxy rotation curves: missing matter, or missing physics?”
Francesca Vidotto, “Quanta of spacetime in a non-singular universe”
Henrique Gomes, “Timeless cosmology with records”
Karen Crowther, “Emergence, Reduction, and Correspondence in the Context of Quantum Gravity”
Nick Huggett, “Cosmological Aspects of Quantum Gravity”
Michela Massimi, “Three problems about multi-scale modelling in contemporary cosmology”
Niayesh Afshordi, “Reflections on Spacetime”
Simon Saunders, “What is space-time geometry? — the non-relativistic case”
Daniele Oriti, “Cosmology as quantum gravity hydrodynamics: emergent universe without fundamental space and time”
20th Eastern Gravity Meeting Penn State State College, PA, USA June 9-10, 2017
B. S. Sathyaprakash, “Results from LIGO Event 170104 – III”
Carlos Lousto “Modeling the Black Hole Merger of QS0 3C 186”
Ezra Newman “Light-Cones, Asymptotic-Light Cones and Almost-Complex-Light Cones”
Abner Shimony Forum, EXPERIMENTAL METAPHYSICS 30 YEARS ON Co-Sponsored by the BU Department of Philosophy and BU Quantum Computation & Measurement Lab April 28, 2017
Marissa Giustina, “Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons” 2017
Wayne Myrvold, “‘Passion-at-a-Distance’: A Defence and Celebration”
Alyssa Ney, “Separability, Locality, & Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics”
Eric Cavalcanti, “Experimental Metaphysics Beyond Bell’s Theorem”
UMass Amherst, PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM February 24, 2017
Jill North, “Spatiotemporal Structure and the Relational-Subsantival Debate” INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY Hosted by the University of Geneva and the University of Illinois at Chicago Space and Time After Quantum Gravity project June 19-24, 2016
Keizo Matsubara, “Dualities and Spacetime in String Theory”
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 1
Carlo Rovelli, “Is Time’s Arrow Perspectival?”
Gordon Belot, “Ten Weird Things about de Sitter Spacetime”
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 3
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 2
Jenann Ismael, “Time Perception”
Alyssa Ney, “Functionalizing Space in Quantum Mechanics”
Gordon Belot, “Background Independence”
Alyssa Ney, “A Primer on Emergence”
Đorđe Minić, “String Theory – an overview”
Carlo Rovelli, “Space and Time (or not?) in Loop Quantum Gravity”
Christian Wüthrich, “Quantum Gravity: Motivations and Implications”
Đorđe Minić, “Modular Spacetime and Metastring Theory”
Jenann Ismael, “Seeing Space”
INFORMATION-THEORETIC INTERPRETATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS Rotman Institute of Philosophy Western University London, ON, Canada June 11-12, 2016
Richard Healey, “Correlations, probabilities and quantum states”
Robert Spekkens, “Leibniz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles as a foundational principle of quantum theory”
Armond Duwell “Understanding Quantum Theory”
Matthew Pusey, “Is QBism 80% complete, or 20%?”
Jeffrey Bub, “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Marissa Giustina, “Significant loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem with entangled photons”
Gilles Brassard, “Information is the key!”
Rüdiger Schack, “Participatory realism”
Lucien Hardy, “Operational Road to Quantum Gravity”
Laura Felline “It’s a matter of principle. Scientific explanation in information-theoretic reconstruction of quantum theory”
