The Flow
The Flow visually reimagines physical processes that we are unable to directly observe with any imaginable medium, while referring to modern physical theories and scientific visualisation processes. It alludes to ideas of digital physics, complexity and information theories as well as the concepts of universal Darwinism, emergence and supervenience.
Awarded Best Sound Design to Echoic Audio, at the Van D'Or Awards 2012
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The Layers
Information. Continuously being transmitted and received, always in formation. It radiates out of itself and interacts with itself like ripples of water. With each interaction, a unique combination of information is expressed, a code that is processed by another code, increasing in complexity. An algorithm that expresses itself in increasingly complex calculations. This is the flow of information.
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Quarks are coded to interact with each other by continuously exchanging a threefold force which binds them together. The force is expressed in a myriad of virtual quarks and gluons that act as carriers of information from one quark to the other. This force is so relentless that quarks are never found in isolation but always in groups. |
Groups of quarks hold more complex information that encode another level of entities, such as protons and neutrons. These entities are held together by the residual forcereleased from their constituent quarks, exchanging information by releasing pairs of quarks. The sub-system of quarks that arises from the interaction of these entities creates yet another layer of code, the nucleus. |
The nuclear complex is able to interact with different information entities like electrons, forming new groups of codes. Electrons occupy the space around the nucleus within clouds of probability known as atomic orbitals. Together with the nuclear system they create a new class of entities coded by the varying amounts of nucleons and electrons interacting with each other. This diverseinteraction of nucleons and electrons creates the different types of atoms or elements. |
Elements eventually create compound structures, which through complex interactions give rise to organic macromolecules that can wind themselves up in long strings and walls of code, like RNA and membranes. These codes build massive structures, the organelles that reside within the cell, each communicating with each other, working together to build even more complex 3D information like proteins and hormones.
Layer upon layer the flow builds new codes that create new codes, each version computing a new state based on the previous one. Information becomes a single continuum of reinterpreted data projecting from a simpler state out to a more complex one. It appears like an endless seamless pattern with no beginning or end flowing out of and into eternity, a crystalline fractal, a message that forever reiterates itself. |
The Flow Annotated
Annotated version showing each integrative level of the flow.
Prints
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The Nucleus
Data Processing in the Nucleus
The Atomic Nucleus
Data Transmission at the Nuclear Level
The Inner Cell
Data Expression in the Inner Cell
Atomic Orbitals
Sea Quarks
Biosemiosis
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