NOUMENON, a term associated with Immanuel Kant’s theory of knowledge, describes the “intangible“ and the “incomprehensible“.At the center of this work is an investigation into the effects of glitter on a sample of water.
On display are microscopic images from the Ars Electronica Center’s BioLab that show microorganisms such as tardigrades and amoebas and thus reveal a hidden world. These are complemented by images from the NASA archive. The devastating consequences of the environmentally harmful glitter for the life forms in the sample raise philosophical questions that remain unanswered — as do the unimaginable dimensions of the universe itself.
Credits:
Voice Acting: Julia Stang
Scientific Consultant: Dr. rer. nat. Anastasia Bragina
Technical Advisor: Matthias Langer, M.Sc.
TIME OUT 13, a collaboration between Ars Electronica and the Department of Time-based and Interactive Media Arts at the University of Arts Linz
