{"id":1404,"date":"2020-09-14T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2020\/?post_type=event&p=1404"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:33:12","slug":"nanocade-live","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2020\/spiegeltent\/nanocade-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanocade: Light Journeys – Live Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr Andrew Parnell and artist Paul Evans discuss the ideas, inspiration, art and physics behind Nanocade<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is situated in Futurecade and is available to view online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visit the Nanocade exhibition<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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