Description
Quantumtechnics: Printing as a cross-media phenomenon of observing and materializing in shaping realityAbstract: 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 primordial 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.
| Period | 3 Jul 2025 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Gothenberg, SwedenShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |