Dr Andrew Parnell and artist Paul Evans discuss the ideas, inspiration, art and physics behind Nanocade. Located within Futurecade, this ‘exhibition within an exhibition’ features artworks that allow exploration of a variety of mind-blowing length-scales, created during the artist’s extended residency within the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
The project
These exhilarating virtual artworks take you on a series of fantastic voyages, tracing the journey of light from the sun to various locations in time and space, on Earth.
The Light Journeys are the result of an extraordinary creative collaboration between physicist Dr Andrew Parnell, artist Paul Evans and the team at HumanVR. Through a process of discussion with Andrew, Paul was able to translate some astounding, abstract ideas into narratives. His sketches and storyboards formed the basis of each journey.
As Andrew himself has said, communicating quantum mechanics is notoriously difficult. A rare achievement then, and a chance to understand something that might otherwise have remained beyond our reach.
The exhibition is situated in Futurecade and is available to view online.
See Also
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Nanocade
Artworks enabling exploration of a variety of mind-blowing length-scales. Dr Andrew Parnell, Paul Evans -
Light, the Universe and Everything – Podcast
Artist Paul Evans and physicist Andrew Parnell answer crowd-sourced questions about light, the universe, and what it’s like working together on an art-science project -
Schema
An artistic Virtual Reality journey through time and space featuring immersive storytelling, visual animation and a soundscape. Nick Bax, Mark Fell, HumanVR -
Project 2050
Explore the role of engineering in solving future problems including natural disasters and food shortages. SELA -
Project 2050 – Live Event
Engineering students from SELA talk about developing an interactive film where the player has to make potentially word-saving, engineering-based decisions
