Spin Art

The Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) is holding an art contest called ‘SPIN ART’ to share the excitement of basic science with the art community and the general public. Spin and quantum mechanics are the main subjects of QNS’s research. QNS hopes that this contest can create a bridge between its researchers and the people who have interest in science. The winners and the final round artwork may be exhibited in the Research Cooperation Building at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.

Program details
Subject: Spin and/or Quantum

Art Categories
Painting, digital illustration, photography, video

Qualification
Open to the general public and students (Team or individual)

Award and Prize

Winners

 QNS Director’s Prize & Spin Streamer YouTube Prize
Team Moiré (KIM Jiyeon, JANG Yewon, CHO Yejin, BAE Kyungwoo, JEON Heewon)
Singlet & Multiplet, Video, 2021

Artists Statement
There’s nought outside and nought within, or she is inside out and outside in. 
Epirrhema ~ Goethe; C.1819 

Inspired by Goethe’s poem , a physicist Wolfgang Pauli discovered the concept of quantum entanglement and quantum superposition. In the world of quantum, multiple quantum states can exist simultaneously until an observer’s observation recognizes it as one. We discover the laws of physics through countless observations and experiments. We translate the essence interpreted as phenomena and transform it into concepts to find the essence. Pauli is convinced that law, the external image of essence constructed by the observer, and concept, the internal image, is homogenous. This is because despite the two being different internal images, they are from the same essence.
The same is true for humans composed of numerous atoms. We face multiple internal images throughout our lifetime. We sometimes show an abundance of love towards humanity, and sometimes rage in uncontrollable anger when we experience moral hazards. However, those images are different representations generated by one person, thus, are natural. We all have multiple egos that overlap with one another, and we are beings who leave traces of ourselves in our environment and relationships.
Team Moiré sees an individual’s shape as a ‘Singlet’, and the various identities that exist within it as ‘Multiplet’. connects the process of discovering and embracing various aspects of ego with quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics and ego are aligned in the sense that they both discuss the nature of science and philosophy. They also share common ground on it being imperceivable; quantum mechanics regard the microscopic world, and ego is our invisible, internal self. Team Moiré expresses these characteristics through video using the basic elements of art—points, lines, and planes—and narrates the story through performance.

Second Prize
KIM HyunHwoo, SONG Junho
Simulacre Triangle, 113.0×85.0cm x 3EA, Photography

Second Prize
HAN Jaesuk
Things that Flicker, Installation Video

Second Prize
PARK Hari
The Flow, Video

Third Prize
KIM Jieun, JEON Suyeon, KIM Gabin
Gap, 160.0×90.0cm, Photography

Third Prize
CHO Haena
Dented Space, installation Video

Third Prize
JEONG Jae hui
Day, 29.1×21.0cm x 20 EA, Photography

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Contact: art@qns.science

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