The Quantum Biology of Politics

The Art|Sci Collective invited the POM conference’s audience and colleagues, to jump collectively with us from one space of possibility–where quantum mechanics asserts, we ‘don't know’ and ‘can't know’, to the next —in which experimental techniques such as time-resolved microscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, single molecule spectroscopy, or even single particle imaging, enable us the precision of observing and measuring infinitesimal dynamics at very small length and time scales. What does quantum biology offer us as multiplicities and alternative realities when considering the attempt to subvert and confront absolute order, stability, and control in the socio-political sphere? We offer a randomly guided immersion in a sequence of live and pre-recorded video performances and video-poems, speculating on quantum effects in living systems, using DIY microscopy, data visualization, generative 3D modelling and animation, machine learning, and other media art techniques.

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Clarissa Ribeiro

Mick Lorusso

Victoria Vesna

James Gimzewski

Claudia Jacques

Kaitlin Bryson

Ivana Dama

Conference

Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 365-372

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[0001]University of Fortaleza, Brazil

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

[0002]STEAM Coordinator, Westridge, Pasadena, USA

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

[0003]Professor, UCLA DMA

Director, UCLA Art Sci Center

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

[0004]Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

[0005]Principal, Knowledge Art Studios, New York USA

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

[0006]The Submergence Collective

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

[0007]UCLA DMA

Event coordinator, UCLA Art|Sci Center

Art|Sci Collective, Los Angeles, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.49

SO-VID: 585d60bd-746e-4866-b4f4-4b7a22780206

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] I Dama (2021) Personal website. http://www.ivanadama.com/ (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[2] M Deng et al (2016) Photoionization microscopy for a hydrogen atom in parallel electric and magnetic fields. Phys. Rev. A 93, 063411. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.063411 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[3] Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (2021) New particles, new physics. http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/timeline/05.html (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[4] C Jacques (2021) Personal website. http://claudiajacques.com retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[5] S Jarvis P. (2015) Resolving intra- and inter-molecular structure with non-contact atomic force microscopy. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 16, 19936–19959. http://doi.org/10.3390/ijms160819936 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[6] C Johnson R. (2021) Arc of the viral universe: pages150-151, 2021. (Digital Print, 8 1/2 × 11 in 21.6 × 27.9 cm, Edition of 10) http://www.artsy.net/artwork/carla-rae-johnson-arc-of-the-viral-universe-pages150-151 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[7] B Kaitlin (2021) Personal website. http://www.kaitlinbryson.com/ (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[8] King Jr., M. L. (1968) Remaining awake through a great revolution. speech given at the national cathedral. March 31, 1968. http://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/remaining-awake-through-great-revolution-address-morehouse-college (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[9] F Lewis (1983) The quantum mechanics of politics. The New York Times, November, 6, 1983, Section 6, Page 98. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/06/magazine/the-quantum-mechanics-of-politics.html (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[10] S Lloyd (2011) Quantum coherence in biological systems. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 302, International Symposium Nanoscience and Quantum Physics 2011 (nanoPHYS’11) 26– 28 January 2011 , Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. http://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/302/1/012037 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[11] M Lorusso (2021) Personal website. http://micklorusso.net/ (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[12] Poéticas Digitais. (2021) Incógnito (2007). http://www.poeticasdigitais.net/incognito.html (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[13] I Poudyal et al. (2020) Single-particle imaging by x-ray free-electron lasers—How many snapshots are needed? Structural Dynamics 7, 024102. http://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144516 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[14] E.L Readet al. (2009) Photon echo studies of photosynthetic light harvesting. Photosynth Res 101, 233–243. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-009-9464-9 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[15] C Ribeiro (2021) Personal website. http://clarissaribeiro.com/ (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[16] E Romero, et al. (2014) Quantum coherence in photosynthesis for efficient solar-energy conversion. Nature Phys 10, 676–682. http://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3017 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[17] Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. (2016) The uncertainty principle. First published Mon Oct 8, 2001; substantive revision Tue Jul 12, 2016 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/ (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[18] J Strümpfer et al. (2012) How quantum coherence assists photosynthetic light-harvesting. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2012 3 (4), 536-542 http://doi.org/10.1021/jz201459c (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[19] The Submergence Collective. (2021) The submergence collective website. http://www.thesubmergencecollective.com/ (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[20] V Vesna (2021) [Alien] Star Dust: Signal to Noise. http://alienstardust.com (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

[21] J Wonderen H. van, et. al. (2011) Nanosecond heme-to-heme electron transfer rates in a multiheme cytochrome nanowire reported by a spectrally unique His/Met-ligated heme. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2021, 118 (39) e2107939118. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107939118 (retrieved date: September 20, 2021)

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