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Wave-Particle HyperLightness
Margarida Sardinha
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“Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism. Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories… human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon...” - Douglas Hofstadter
Margarida Sardinha presents Wave-Particle HyperLightness, comprising an experimental animation film on a hologram display, demonstrating the illusion of kinetic movement. Margarida’s work applies her usual kinetic analogy of movement’s illusion between object and observer, connected to quantum mechanics core paradox of understanding wave and particle properties in symbolic-continuum.
“It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do.” - Albert Einstein
This duality appeared for the first time in the XVII century when the Huygens and Newton debate concerning the nature of light and matter emerged. It is understood as the counterpart of body-spirit duality linked to alchemical and sacred geometry symbolism. Wave-Particle HyperLightness compares eastern and western symbols of faith by rendering them as possible aperiodic oscillations of light particles (photons). It does so using 2D stochastic wave textures in motion applied to 3D polyhedra in movement as well generating animation composites where light wave-particle dichotomy is juxtaposed.
Margarida Sardinha presents Wave-Particle HyperLightness, comprising an experimental animation film on a hologram display, demonstrating the illusion of kinetic movement. Margarida’s work applies her usual kinetic analogy of movement’s illusion between object and observer, connected to quantum mechanics core paradox of understanding wave and particle properties in symbolic-continuum.
“It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do.” - Albert Einstein
This duality appeared for the first time in the XVII century when the Huygens and Newton debate concerning the nature of light and matter emerged. It is understood as the counterpart of body-spirit duality linked to alchemical and sacred geometry symbolism. Wave-Particle HyperLightness compares eastern and western symbols of faith by rendering them as possible aperiodic oscillations of light particles (photons). It does so using 2D stochastic wave textures in motion applied to 3D polyhedra in movement as well generating animation composites where light wave-particle dichotomy is juxtaposed.