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KeywoRds
quantum
entanglement
remote staring
synaesthesia
interactive installations
affective relationship
claRissa RibeiRo and Milena szafiR
University of Sao Paulo
love-in-idleness: Quantum
entanglement dreamscapes
abstRact
Despite the entangled universe cannot be considered merely as an enormously
complex system, as it is reactive to actions and observations, references on quan-
tum entanglement in living systems may help find ways in which quantum effects
can move from the microscopic to the macroscopic, in realms where the mind/
brain behave as a quantum object and is sensitive to the dynamic state of the entire
universe. Taking up vision from a synaesthetic perspective as a perfusion of senses,
and putting together a myriad of references around this perception phenomenon,
the idea is to work in the building of artistic experiences where vision takes up a
tactile function, emerging from a tension between the movements governed by the
interaction of the attractors.
The synesthesia, therefore, is the normal situation. The isolated sensa-
tion is the product of an analysis […] Perception is synesthetic.
(Schilder 1950)
What does it mean to be entangled? Could the physical phenomenon of
entanglement, described by quantum physics, help to build artistic experi-
ences of a complex affective relationship between two human beings? It is in
an article by Erwin Schrödinger in which he describes the famous imaginary
experiment known as the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox, motivated by the publi-
cation, in the same year, of the EPR Paradox (Einstein et al. 1935), that the