Glimpses My drawings are inspired by a passion for art, culture and physics. In these works, I was looking at capturing glimpses of time—what Henri Bergson [1] called ‘duration’. In my artworks, I aimed to explore duration to convey a sense of space/time, offering different perspectives and insights. The accretion of marks made in the…
Qubit
In 1986, the physicist Fritz Haake identified a significant area of research in the area of quantum mechanics to investigate a question of ‘whether quantum chaos can be more than a mere transientmimicry of classical chaos’ (Haake et al. 1987). The concept persisted in trying to detect whether there was some unique spatial experiment that…
The Unknown Known
Synopsis: Strange events have been happening in the air above Antarctica, baffling to the scientific team that has detected them. A world away in Britain, a brilliant prize-winning and intuitive young scientist, Erin Stone, has been drawing some strange conclusions from this data. So too, unknown to Erin, has a multinational security company, with dark…
Media-Space 1981-1986
This exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia presented documentation of the multi-disciplinary projects undertaken by Perth-based art collective Media-Space across its life-span, 1981-1986. Curated by Paul Thomas and Julian Goddard, it shed light on a period in Western Australian art when artists such as Judy Chambers, Anne Graham, Jeff Jones, Will Kohlen, Brian Mckay, Lindsay Parkhill, Neil Sullivan, Paul…
Quantum Chaos Catalogue
Quantum Chaos series catalogue link. Work from the Quantum Chaos collection has been shown at Flinder Street Gallery, Sydney; Forces to Form” Pratt Manhattan Gallery Pratt Institute, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne and Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, ISEA2022, Barcelona. Catalogue essay Quantum Chaos Series A paradigm shift is occurring, away from the concrete and indivisible towards…
2022 Quantum Chaos Set
An electron is seen as being analogous to the movement of a spinning top. When a spinning top goes out of its spin cycle, it falls into chaos in the same way an electron in a quantum position is governed by its spin. The series draws from the analogy of the axis of a spinning…
Quantum Detective Series
A Quantum Trilogy – E-Books 99 cents US each. The first Book of Ed: Ed Eats a Pork Pie Ed a former police officer, was set up for a crime he did not commit. Now released from prison, he is down and out until he finds a job through serendipitous circumstances, leading him to rediscover…
Quantum Chaos
Quantum Chaos Four experiments visualising patterns of chaos The research focuses on art being both a visual and cultural means to examine the paradoxical data of the invisible and unmeasurable quantum world. The installation ‘Quantum Chaos’ is a visualisation of the shift in our cultural understanding of what exists in terms of the difference between…
QUANTUM DRAWING WORKSHOP
Ask a quantum physicist to draw a chair and the result can be a fundamental shift in how they see the world. A chair in the drawing studio, left, and PhD student Irene Fernandez’s drawing of the chair. Images: Paul Thomas, Irene Fernandez Possibly the world’s first ever quantum drawing workshop has been held at…
The Swerve
In this exhibition I explored ‘the potential of what Lucretius referred to as the Clinamen – a concept he borrowed from Epicurean atomism which refers to the unpredictable swerve of atoms in their movement through space. The interactions and ‘crashes’ caused by atomic swerve, by the clinamen, is therefore the trigger- point or material rupture…
Quantum Art and Uncertainty
Art and science.
A quest for answers.
Creativity.
There are a range of similar approaches and synergies that apply to all of the aforementioned.
Quantum Art and Uncertainty explores what could be described as inbetween-ness and hard to define middle ground meandering between hammering on the gates of nothingness and the often soulless forward motion that propels our fast-paced life and has accelerated to a devil’s pace over recent years, i.e. it challenges binary thinking and advocates to rethink the way what we perceive to be our natural positioning.
Life is seen as nothing but a flickering light with art being the suspension mechanism and a tool to assess what we are and serve as an anchor.
Each chapter of Quantum Art and Uncertainty deals with one “property, dimension or aspect of quantum phenomena” and the impact of inconstancy, illustrating it using both physics and art and exemplifying the oeuvre or artists or genres like e.g. surrealism with scientific principles and the parallels that are drawn are fascinating if often unintended.
Quantum PI: Ed Eats a Pork Pie
Ed Eats a Pork Pie Ed, a former police officer, was set up for a crime he did not commit. Now released from prison, he is down and out until he finds a job through serendipitous circumstances, leading him to rediscover trust in his intuition. As part of his new employment, he is led down a path of intrigue as he…
In the act of happening
The exhibition ‘In the Act of Happening’ carries on Paul Thomas’s research into quantum phenomena and how we express these invisible forces. In attempting to visualise what is at first invisible and thus inconceivable, once these forces which inform our material world become visible and conceivable, our model of the material world shifts and in…
2017 Nanoessence and Quantum Consciousness
Nanoessence and Quantum Consciousness presented at the “The Rise of Bio-Society”, exhibition that examined recent developments in the areas of Bio-tech Art & Culture at the Riddoch Art Gallery, 1 Bay Road, Mount Gambier. . Saturday April 8 – Sunday May 7. Closed Good Friday. Artist Paul Thomas with Kevin Raxworthy have collaborated on the “Nanoessence” installation which is based…
2016 Quantum Consciousness Dome
Presentation as part of the Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture, on transferring the artwork Quantum Consciousness to the dome in the Immersive Vision Theatre, Plymouth University. During the residency for Quantum Consciousness Residency at i-DAT Technical support Luke Christison Photography Mike Phillips
Nature Nanotechnology
A violation of the so-called Bell inequality represents a strong proof of the ability to create and control quantum states of a pair of quantum bits with no classical analogues. Andrea Morello and co-workers have now demonstrated a violation of Bell’s inequality in a pair of qubits in silicon, encoded in the electron spin and…
2015 Talking to an electron
‘The most exotic technology ever conceived of the quantum computer’ ‘Talking to an electron’ was developed in relation to my quantum consciousness project by using a reading of Feynman’s 1982[1] paper to affect the microwave signal that stimulates and excites the electron to spin. The microwave signal is used in quantum computer research to drive the phosphorous electron…
2015 Quantum Consciousness and Richard Feynman
The new scientific data for this project is generated from a microwave signal which transforms a reading of Richard Feynman’s (1982) paper on the birth of the quantum computer. The link between the quantum computer, consciousness and artistic expression is presented via the installation through the co-emergence of thought and quantum conditions. Quantum Consciousness is…
2015 Quantum Consciousness
Current Research on the Quantum computer, Consciousness and the Spin In science the concept of the spin is fundamental to quantum research where flux and vibration at the very centre of the universe. The quantum spin is based on controlling the property of an electron, photon or neutron (qubit) as the foundational understanding of matter….
2012 Multiverse
Multiverse The research project is looking for parallel universes that have evolved by working with concepts from Richard Feynman’s lecture on Photons – Corpuscles of Light and Fits of Reflection and Transmission – Quantum Behaviour. The interactive artwork Multiverse visualises a parallel universe based on the diagrammatic presentation from Richard Feynman 1979 lectures where he…
2011 Atomism
Residual images within silver. LEA Volume 17 Issue 1: Atomism: Residual Images within Silver Atomism is a collaborative Installation with Kevin Raxworthy that investigates silver, the mirror, and quantum theories of light. Richard Feynman in his 1979 lectures tells that light hits a mirror at all points not just at the point of…
2010 Nanoessence
Nanotechnology research project – Nanoessence, Paul Thomas in collaboration with Kevin Raxworthy The Nanoessence project aims to examine life at a sub cellular level, re-examining space and scale within the human context. A single HaCat skin cell is analysed with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to explore comparisons between, life and death at a nano…