Markos Kay – Quantum Fluctuations

Quantum Fluctuations
Made as a series of virtual experiments, Quantum Fluctuations shows the complexity and transient nature of the most fundamental aspect of reality, the quantum world, which is impossible to observe directly. In the laboratory, elementary particles are observed by measuring the spoils of a proton collision and comparing the findings with data collected from supercomputer simulations. It is perhaps the most indirect method of observation imaginable, a non-representational form of observation mediated by computer simulations.
In Quantum Fluctuations, particle simulations are used as the brush and paint to create abstract moving paintings that visualise the events that happen during a proton collision. The film shows the intricate structure of the proton beams that collide to create an outflow of particle showers which create composite particles that eventually decay. These visualisations were created with input from scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN, Geneva.

Markos Kay (UK/CY) is a digital artist best known for his video art experiment aDiatomea (2007), exhibited at Ernst Haeckel's Phyletic Museum, the generative short film The Flow (2011) which featured in the television series Breaking Bad and Quantum Fluctuations (2016), a conceptual imagining of particle interactions.
His art and design practice ranges from screen-based media, to projection and print and has been featured worldwide in museums, exhibitions, film festivals and art publications.
His work can be described as an ongoing exploration of digital abstraction through a series of generative simulation experiments. These experiments explore the complexity and emergence of the digital sublime