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Dancing at the quantum disco

19 Jul 2012 James Dacey
Hiddens Fields art-physics collaboration


Dancers move together to create interesting patterns. (Courtesy: Paul Blakemore)


By James Dacey

Hidden Fields is a new art–physics collaboration that will be premièring at the Arnolfini art centre this Saturday as part of the Bristol Harbour Festival. Dancers interact with virtual quantum particles and fields to create colourful abstract images that are projected onto screens. The show is also accompanied by live music as a performer uses software to map the particle dynamics into musical scales.

The project’s mastermind is David Glowacki, who developed the idea using knowledge acquired through his day job as a theoretical chemist, as he explains in this video.

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