The Future of Light Art: Martin Frimmer | Optical Forces: How much are we allowed to know?

Light is a messenger from the universe. The arts are the messengers of light.  

Everything we know, we know from light – that is the claim by astrophysics at least. One thing is clear: From quantum optics (»The Angular Momentum of Light«) to chronobiology, from nano-optics to photonics, a new frontier of scientific research on the nature of light is emerging. These options, which offer us new theories and practices of light, from biophysical chemistry to the lithosphere, also have an impact on artistic possibilities. 

For this reason, renowned experts and institutions from the sciences and arts of light met at the symposium „The Future of Light Art“ at the ZKM | Karlsruhe from February 8 - 9th, 2018, to open up the new horizon of the light spectrum in an exchange of experiences.

Dr. Martin Frimmer is a scientist and lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. His research focuses on the interaction of light and matter, in particular on length scales comparable to the wavelength and smaller.

Video documentary:

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