NOVA III Stellar system by Emin Mathers
By (author): Emin Mathers
Title: NOVA III Stellar system
Subtitle: NOVA III is a way to explore and document cosmic scales of imagination, dedicated to becomе a source of inspiration for scientific discoveries in physics and astronomy.
Blurb/Shorttext:
NØVA III is a way to explore and document cosmic scales of imagination, dedicated to becomе a source of inspiration for scientific discoveries in physics and astronomy.
Everything in human culture, and so does science, is an intersubjective reality, logically explaining everything around us. From this point of view, astronomy is also a big story made up of various information data which we collected. In order to feel cosmic reality, we have created various tools to search for evidence of our imagination.
In 2019 the news of how astrophysicists have creatively pushed the technical boundaries of the possible to capture the first image of a black hole, I have felt that my homosapiens brain is seeing an object humans have never seen before. It illuminated the idea that it is possible to find photographic evidence for our abstract theories. Today we accept photography as documentation of reality.
For two years, scientists analyzed the information received from the Event Horizon Telescope* on a supercomputer to create an imitation of an image taken with a single giant telescope the size of our planet if it were the Earth's point of view to it. This news opened up Gaia's perspective to me. As a result, in the image we saw exactly what was predicted by either modern theories of astrophysics or scenes from film directors - a bright displaced donut with shifted brightness around a dark spot.
When creating this series, I used the common astronomical tool - a telescope and a camera to make a documentation of the imaginational experience. However, using an observing instrument, I took a different point of view. The knowing mind, having received the tool, will repeat the action previously done by us, and this prevents the imagination from freely floating along the flow of events opening a completely new experience.
Usually future realities are preparing humanity for a new world through art because intuitively it makes discoveries where logical science cannot yet make them. So they give ideas for solving the problems ahead of scientists. By the words of the culturologist Yuri Lotman - "Art does not depict the world, but creates the world, and after that, this world exists." We have witnessed a lot how paintings created by artists, ideas written by futurologists decades later became part of our reality. The way this series was created by circumstances convinces me that actually these are the seeds of an idea planted for future generations of pioneers to explore in more details the stellar system NOVA III.
*Event Horizon Telescope (a project to create a super-large telescope with a diameter of 12 thousand kilometers, physically consisting of eight radio telescopes)
ISBN: 978-87-7620-406-8
Book language: English
Publishing house: Snap Collective
Website: www.snap-collective.com
Editorial Assistant: Valentina Furtuna
Designer: Irina Furtuna
In collaboration with: Debbie Soon
Published on: in production
Category: Art
Price (€): 129
Keywords: space, cosmos, exoplanet, astronomy, photography