TY - GEN
T1 - Quantumtechnics
T2 - 17th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2025, held as part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025
AU - Chen, Zhonghao
AU - Lo, Cheng Hung
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - While Printing is depicted as a contemporary technological advancement, it is, in fact, a historically transformative phenomenon, encapsulating humanity’s ongoing engagement with technology to mediate and stabilise the flux of reality. From the primal mark-making of cave art to the advancements in 2D printing, photographic media, and 3D printing, each technological iteration has reshaped the dynamic interplay among observers, mediation, modes of expression, and the crystallisation of reality. This continuum provides fertile ground for creative exploration and highlights intrinsic tensions inherent in these processes of stabilisation and transformation. This paper introduces quantumtechnics as a pivotal framework that reconceptualises printing as a transhistorical and transmedial technical act. Grounded in the quantum observer effect—where observation actively shapes and stabilises reality—quantumtechnics position printing as a “collapse phenomenon,” wherein mediation solidifies potentialities into tangible expressions of existence. In this view, printing is not merely a means of reproduction but a dynamic milieu for cognitive and material interplay, weaving human and non-human agencies into the unfolding tapestry of the cosmos .
AB - While Printing is depicted as a contemporary technological advancement, it is, in fact, a historically transformative phenomenon, encapsulating humanity’s ongoing engagement with technology to mediate and stabilise the flux of reality. From the primal mark-making of cave art to the advancements in 2D printing, photographic media, and 3D printing, each technological iteration has reshaped the dynamic interplay among observers, mediation, modes of expression, and the crystallisation of reality. This continuum provides fertile ground for creative exploration and highlights intrinsic tensions inherent in these processes of stabilisation and transformation. This paper introduces quantumtechnics as a pivotal framework that reconceptualises printing as a transhistorical and transmedial technical act. Grounded in the quantum observer effect—where observation actively shapes and stabilises reality—quantumtechnics position printing as a “collapse phenomenon,” wherein mediation solidifies potentialities into tangible expressions of existence. In this view, printing is not merely a means of reproduction but a dynamic milieu for cognitive and material interplay, weaving human and non-human agencies into the unfolding tapestry of the cosmos .
KW - Cosmotechnics
KW - Cross-media Practice
KW - Digital Art
KW - Painting
KW - Physical Art
KW - Quantumtechnics
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-93739-2_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-93739-2_2
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:105009234787
SN - 9783031937385
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 18
EP - 31
BT - Cross-Cultural Design - 17th International Conference, CCD 2025, Held as Part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025, Proceedings
A2 - Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 22 June 2025 through 27 June 2025
ER -