CIVA
|indeterminate⟩⟨apparatus|
Exhibition Design with
@kammera_obscura_gerald_moser at
@belvedere21wien
The Civa media art festival
@civa_at highlights the interplay between contemporary technologies, realities, and experiences across digital, physical, and hybrid spaces. This year’s festival and exhibition will focus on the realm of quanta.
More than a century of research in quantum physics has shown that the universe is neither deterministic nor entirely comprehensible or rational. At the microscopic level, matter behaves according to principles that defy classical logic: particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously, their properties emerge through interaction, and through entanglement, they can remain connected even across light years.
Quantum research has unsettled the long-standing distinctions between subject and object, perception and matter, and Self and Other. In a world shaped by ecological crises, technological disruptions, and epistemic ruptures, these insights also find resonance in contemporary art.
|indeterminate⟩⟨apparatus| brings together artistic positions that approach the indeterminate as an aesthetic, political, and speculative space. The artists engage with quantum concepts through poetic gestures, multi-layered embodied experiences, and playful abstraction. They explore the infrastructures of emerging quantum technologies and experiment with their creative potential. In doing so, they shed light on the frequently overlooked ecological and social implications that these technologies present while also negotiating their possibilities and inherent ambivalences.
Curator:
@eva0707
Cocurator:
@annaewadyrko
Publication Management:
@poesiesoso
Graphic Design:
@manuelradde &
@pdoringer
Typefaces: NaN Tragedy by
@nan_xyz
Image 9 Postcard Cover: Enrico Zago
@nrczg
Exhibition Photos: Manuel Carreon Lopez, Wien
@kunstdokumentationcom 
