Wednesday, 9 March 2022

"Memory Vapor" by Gelfand and Domnitch



Every second, Earth’s inhabitants are bombarded by billions of charge carriers, arriving from every possible direction in outer space. As they traverse the supersaturated gas within a cloud chamber, these subatomic messengers, known as cosmic rays, macroscopically disclose their identity and the plenum underlying the empirical void. In Memory Vapor, a particle-accelerating cloud chamber is scanned by a white laser sheet, turning its -200° C contents into a dynamic prism. Ionized nuclei, muons, antiprotons, electrons and positrons are trailed by threads of glimmering condensation droplets.

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Dmitry Gelfand (b.1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Evelina Domnitch (b. 1972, Minsk, Belarus) create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices.