Quantum Cinema - a digital Vision

The intended project is inspired by the current events in science, especially by those in quantum physics, as the forthcoming international experiment in the high-energy particle collider (LHC) at CERN is expecting to solve open questions in science, such as the detectability of the Higgs particle and the riddle of extra-dimensions. The artistic research on scientific preliminaries, entitled "Quantum Cinema" is dedicated to the postulate of Peter Weibel: Hence, the establishment of a virtual higher-dimensional space model for visualizing the usually non-perceivable processes in the microcosmos on Planck scale - the size of the wavelength of a photon - is the research focus of this intended project. Media theory will supervise the artistic investigation on principles of higher-dimensional space-concepts, which should lead to a visual access to higher mathematics in quantum physics. Studies of modern space-time theories and corresponding ideas in various times and within the field of anthropology of art should lead to a new synthesis. Media theory supervises this variantologic approach for a profound investigation by asking about analogies between imagination and media technology in different periods as well as depiction forms analogous to recognition and science transfer. In this respect, the study will also reflect science visualization through history and its possibilities via new digital media in parallel to the artwork. The "Quantum Cinema" project is an attempt to learn to understand chaos within "higher order"by digital image processing. Hence, this visualization of a higher dimensional space concept is an "digital geometrical experiment"based on strict mathematical principles. The 3D animated graphic designs of a higher-dimensional space by "discrete dynamic geometry" is an attempt to create a new "holographic depiction model" of complex space structures. Number theory will help to establish the topologically correct structure as well as experimental facts in quantum physics, which will provide the plot for the "quantum cinema". The creative process of the digital artwork will be strictly determined by the scientific rules of both, mathematical logic and experimental facts. Its reflection proceeds in the theoretical comparative method and is then incorporated into the creative artwork in order to compose the correct image. Hence, the visible mathematical structure should be a digital set-up of a virtual particle collider, which should not only allow ONE viewpoint, but an abundance of viewpoints - as if the observer were within the system - to achieve an inner view from the "world inside" to fulfill the claim of the endophysicist Otto E. Rössler.

Quantum Cinema - a digital vision was accomplished from 2010 to 2013 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as host institution. The interdisciplinary group of artists and scientists could work on the foundations of Quantum Mechanics by means of digital art and could establish the preliminaries of a new dynamic geometry in 3D animated geometry visualizing higher mathematics in a continuous framework of a higher dimensional discrete space model obeying the rules of complex number system. The challenge of the Quantum Cinema visualization is based on the idea that this projection must not remain restricted to the 2D medium of a page of paper, such as the Riemann sphere 2D depiction model with a projection of the number space on the plane. Using the advantage of digital 3D animation, it becomes possible to depict within a dynamic space configuration, where the imaginative part becomes virtually real and visually accessible by moving elements, establishing vectors at each point of the sphere. This spatial extension of the Riemann-sphere brings a new visual model towards a better understanding in the so far abstract aglebraic descriptions of quantum phenomena. The QC group was able to create digital complex space configurations worked out adequately to the concept of complex Minkowsi space.There the n-vector principles also corresponding to Hilbert space is applicable, where moving algebraic elements create spaces up to n-dimensions and show evolving symmetries. These tasks are only possible in a new digital presentation mode as 3D digital geometry in continuous motion.Hence the chosen name of the project: Quantum-Cinema and the intention of the project towards a better understanding and the goal of visualization was achieved.The Quantum Cinema 3D animated geometry depiction model is based on the idea that geometry must not remain restricted to the plane 2-D page but the invention of digital media makes the appropriate outlook of higher mathematics possible and animated 3-D graphics are the new medium for a new geometry which is introduced in several papers. The QC project has brought a new approach that overcomes the limitations of projective geometry. It follows the claim to present a more coherent picture of the quantum world by approaching it by geometry as an item of art. Digital new-media art has opened a new field for research on geometry for the development of new visualization models in motion, which is the medium best suited to algebraic descriptions of higher mathematics. This task could be communicated to the scientific community via short animated geo-movies at conferences and being published in various proceedings as well as in mathematics book with high recommandation.