Experience quantum after dark at Science Gallery London. Shake up your relationship with the universe through the power of quantum stories! Move through immersive installations, sit back and enjoy sci-fi shorts and create your own quantum poetry at Science Gallery London’s next Friday Late. Explore the Quantum Untangled exhibition alongside live DJ sets and interactive activities.
DJ Set by artist Matthew Woodham
Ground Floor
18:30-21:30
Between Paths Performance at 19:30
Providing the soundtrack for the night is artist Matthew Woodham who will debut a special audio-visual performance, Between Paths developed during his ARTlab residency
Between Paths is a live sonification of light interference. Laser light is split and reunited, its interference patterns translated into sound that feeds back into the phenomenon itself - a living system revealing information at the fringes of perception.
Matthew's interactive sculpture Superdecision can be seen within the Quantum Untangled exhibition on Floor 1
Quantum Fact or Fiction? Q&A
Theatre
19:00 –19:20
Join Alex Franklin Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at Kings College London, Louis Savy Director of SCI-FI-London and author Lauren Beukes for this quick-fire Q&A exploring how quantum ideas have influenced science fiction. From teleportation to parallel universes, how closely does the science of quantum mechanics correspond? You’re then invited to sit back and watch our specially programmed Quantum Shorts.
Quantum Shorts
Theatre
19:25-20:45
How have quantum ideas influenced science fiction? This showcase of mind-bending short films plays with probability, parallel realities and particles unknown— smart, stylish cinema for curious thinkers. Programmed by SCI-FI-LONDON
Running order:
BISECTED Director: Danny Pineros | Duration: 8 mins |
I NEED IT YESTERDAY Director: Christopher Smith | Duration: 11 mins | USA
INTERVIEW WITH TRAVELER #582 Director: Lisa Steindler, Jon Bernson | Duration: 10 mins | USA
AD INFINITUM Director: Murat Çetinkaya | Duration: 13 mins | Turkey
X Director: Raphael Wahl | Duration: 7 mins | Germany
BECOMING ONE! Director: Thom Haig | Duration: 3 mins |UK
PERCEPTION IS ALL Director: Thom Nash | Duration: 6.30 mins | United Kingdom
THE SCARF SOLUTION Director: Javier Garcia | Duration: 2 mins | Spain
ONE IN HUNDREDS Director: Mark Towers | Duration: 8 mins | United Kingdom
No Blank Pages – a Found Poetry workshop
Studio
18:30-20:45
Some poems are written on a blank canvas, but in this workshop with poet Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan you’ll be making poems based on existing texts. Choose to expand a poem out using words from quantum quotes or boil a poem down by choosing words and phrases from quantum news articles.
This is a casual drop-in workshop, participants can join and leave at any time.
Terra Poetica - installation
Workshop
18:35-20:45
Explore ecological futures in a playful installation using spoken word poetry, spatialised sound, and computational networks. Inspired by quantum entanglement’s acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of all life, Terra Poetica invites you to entangle with electrons and other particles in a speculative landscape.
Created by Alyssa Martens and Ieva Vaiti with quantum advice from physicist Clelia Altomonte, King’s College London, who will be present to answer your questions.
This is a drop-in experience for up to 5 participants; a short queue may apply.
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