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 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.
Projections-Inside-Perimeter-2018-Fall-MagazineSelect 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
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
ASYMPTOTIC SAFETY IN A DARK UNIVERSE
Perimeter Institute
Waterloo, ON, Canada
June 5-7, 2018
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
COSMOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF SPACETIME
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Western University
London, ON, Canada
June 12-14, 2017
20th Eastern Gravity Meeting
Penn State
State College, PA, USA
June 9-10, 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
UMass Amherst, PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM
February 24, 2017
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
Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA
June 19-24, 2016
INFORMATION-THEORETIC INTERPRETATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Western University
London, ON, Canada
June 11-12, 2016