Quantum Foam-[Encryption Castle] #1

The quantum vacuum -in contradiction to the classical vacuum- is far from empty. In fact it’s full of ‘life’ and energy (i.e. quantum fluctuations produce virtual matter and anti-matter particle pairs, energetic particles that appear out of nothing). The quantum vacuum is considered as the lowest energy state of the Universe, a sea of potentiality. Imagine quantum vacuum noise as a glass of champagne where you see bubbles appear and disappear all the time.

In collaboration with the National University of Australia’s quantum communication, teleportation and encryption lab,  De Wilde tapped into the quantum vacuum and rendered the vacuum noise, generated by a table top experiment with entangled lasers, into true random numbers. These true random numbers were piped into custom made 3D modelling software to create the unique shapes, artistic visualisation of the invisible Universe.

Perhaps the most important effect of quantum theory on the arts in general is as a kind of reminder and challenge. The world is not a Turing machine, a perfect logical computation machine. Our apparently solid and predictable world is based on an underlying reality that does not operate by deterministic one-way cause and effect, but by a strange sort of harmonic correspondence among indeterminate entities, whose very being is only a probability.

◊ The sculptures exist is copper, nickel, chrome, silver and gold editions. These are the worlds first quantum encrypted sculptures!