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 artworks 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 in Waterloo, Canada and the other at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. 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.
Information-Theoretic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Western University
London, ON, Canada
June 11-12, 2016
Jeffrey Bub, “Yes! We Have No Bananas” 
Rüdiger Schack, “Participatory realism” 
Richard Healey “Correlations, probabilities and quantum states” 
Lucien Hardy, “Operational Road to Quantum Gravity” 
Gilles Brassard, “Information is the key!” 
Marissa Giustina, “Significant loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem with entangled photons” 
Robert Spekkens, “Leibniz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles as a foundational principle of quantum theory” 
Matthew Pusey, “Is QBism 80% complete, or 20%?” 
Laura Felline “It’s a matter of principle. Scientific explanation in information-theoretic reconstruction of quantum theory” 
Armond Duwell “Understanding Quantum Theory”
International Summer Institute in Philosophy of Physics on the Philosophy of Gravity
Hosted by the University of Geneva and the University of Illinois at Chicago Space and Time After Quantum Gravity project
Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA
June 19-24, 2016
Alyssa Ney, “A Primer on Emergence” 
Gordon Belot, “Background Independence” 
Đorđe Minić, “String Theory – an overview” 
Keizo Matsubara, “Dualities and Spacetime in String Theory” 
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 1 
Alyssa Ney, “Functionalizing Space in Quantum Mechanics” 
Jenann Ismael, “Seeing Space” 
Jenann Ismael, “Time Perception” 
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 2 
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 3 
Gordon Belot, “Ten Weird Things about de Sitter Spacetime” 
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” 
Carlo Rovelli, “Is Time’s Arrow Perspectival?”
UMass Amherst, Philosophy Colloquium
February 24, 2017
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
Wayne Myrvold, “‘Passion-at-a-Distance’: A Defence and Celebration” 
Marissa Giustina, “Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons” 2017 
Eric Cavalcanti, “Experimental Metaphysics Beyond Bell’s Theorem” 
Alyssa Ney, “Separability, Locality, & Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics”
20th Eastern Gravity Meeting
Penn State
State College, PA, USA
June 9-10, 2017
Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Western University
London, ON, Canada
June 12-14, 2017
Daniele Oriti, “Cosmology as quantum gravity hydrodynamics: emergent universe without fundamental space and time” 
Nick Huggett, “Cosmological Aspects of Quantum Gravity” 
Lee Smolin, “Galaxy rotation curves: missing matter, or missing physics?” 
Niayesh Afshordi, “Reflections on Spacetime” 
Tessa Baker, “Agnostic Tests of Gravity” 
Robert Brandenberger, “Emergent space and its possible observational signatures” 
Karen Crowther, “Emergence, Reduction, and Correspondence in the Context of Quantum Gravity” 
Henrique Gomes, “Timeless cosmology with records” 
Michela Massimi, “Three problems about multi-scale modelling in contemporary cosmology” 
Simon Saunders, “What is space-time geometry? — the non-relativistic case” 
Francesca Vidotto, “Quanta of spacetime in a non-singular universe”
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
Wellesley, MA, USA
October 20-21, 2017
Asymptotic Safety in a Dark Universe
Perimeter Institute
Waterloo, ON, Canada
June 5-7, 2018
“Francesco Sannino, ‘Charting Fundamental Interactions’, 2” 
“Francesco Sannino, ‘Charting Fundamental Interactions’, 1” 
“Daniel Litim, ‘Asymptotic safety with and without supersymmetry'” 
“Astrid Eichhorn, Shedding light on dark matter in asymptotic safety” 
“Anders Eller Thomsen, Beta functions at large N f” 
“Niayesh Afshordi, ‘Cosmological non-Constant Problem'” 
“Manuel Reichert, ‘Asymptotic safety of gravity-matter systems and effective universality'” 
“ASIDU, Group Discussion 1” 
“Zhi-Wei Wang, ‘Asymptotically Safe Grand Unified Theories'” 
“Steven Abel, ‘Progress in constructing an Asymptotically safe Standard Model’, 2 “ 
“Robert Mann, ‘Keeping the Standard Model Safe'” 
“Steven Abel, ‘Progress in constructing an Asymptotically safe Standard Model’, 1 “ 
“Nicola Dondi, Constraining Asymptotic Safety using central charges” 
“Masatoshi Yamanda, ‘Asymptotically safe gravity and electroweak scalegenesis'” 
“ASIDU, Group Discussion 2”
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
“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’ 1” 
“Jeremy Butterfield, ‘Equivalence and Emergence within Dualities in Physics'” 
“Karen Crowther, ‘Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity’ 2” 
“Doreen Fraser, ‘Formal Analogies and Theoretical Equivalence’”
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
