- "Symmetries" at the "Ars Electronica Festival 2011" (Mateusz Kotyrba, 2011)
Ars Electronica Festival “Origin – How it all begins” in Linz, August 31 – September 6, 2011
What kind of challenges inspires young researchers and how do quantum scientists arrive at their astounding insights? Students of the PhD programme Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS) discussed these questions with visitors to the exhibition "Symmetries" at the Ars Electronica Festival 2011 and illustrated scientific methods by allowing the visitors to interact with demonstration experiments.
- Mateusz Kotyrba, 2011
The Artistic Directors of the Ars Electronica Festival, Christine Schöpf and Gerfried Stocker, approached the theme of the festival in 2011 by seeking the source of inspiration in art and science:
"The insatiable hunger for knowledge; the burning passion to blaze new trails and overturn old points of view; the wish to find out where we come from; the longing to endow our existence with meaning and to establish our place in a comprehensive model of the universe. The satisfaction we derive upon getting to the bottom of these things, explaining them, describing them, expressing them. These absolutely quintessential elements of what it means to be human constitute the shared source of art and science. They are the driving forces from which innovation emerges." (quote from the curatorial statement).
Students of the Faculty of Physics were invited to join the communication process in the exhibition "Symmetries" at the Ars Electronica Festival 2011.
