Chapter 6: “n-Land” interpretation and prompts

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter six and land interpretation and prompts. This chapter provides you with opportunities to think about this video. More, this chapter is three minutes long. Speaker 1 00:00:12 Imagine what happens to your senses. Two kilometers below the earth. You are surrounded by rock and minerals and embedded in the ongoing histories of peoples ecologies and technologies. You are far from everything familiar, the physicist of snow lab choose this site because the nor right rock shields, their experiments from the omnipresent, cosmic radiation of the surface of the earth and the greater universe, the location is meant to hide smother and damp in this radiation. And yet, as a result, they hope it will also allow them to detect the undetectable by blocking one thing. Another is potentially amplified. This video brings us into the snow lab spaces. In one silence scene, we move along a tunnel called a drift that bridges the laboratories. It is a long narrow path lit by tubes of light on the ceiling. In another scene, the camera spins and moves up the walls of Avast cavern like space that holds a multi-story machine. Speaker 1 00:01:26 More rooms have been captured in 3d images and then fragmented and overlayed on top of the video footage of the spinning space, the scientist narrates this leads to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. That what we experienced is just one branch, one world in a whole multi-verse the world. As we know, it has three dimensions of space, length, width, and depth. Plus one dimension of time using text graphics in the video, the artist tells us that some of the equations physicists work with require 10 and the 11 dimensions to work. Is this new information or unexpected to you? How would it feel to be living in one possible dimension among many, and yet as the artist proposes for contracting and expanding of dimensions, the giving space to allows for otherwise unthinkable connections, it is in this place, deep underground that scientists grapple with the fact that they are working with a very limited toolkit and that they need more diverse perspectives. If humans are going to be able to make sense of the universe, to know the unknowable, one of the questions posed by this exhibition is how can art be a part of that Speaker 0 00:02:54 Pause to reflect on these questions and then move to the next stop and play chapter seven. The next stop on the tour is three and a half meters away behind you.