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analogue-to-digital artist-researcher, musician, and author working at the intersection of contemporary music, contemporary philosophy and digital tools. [aka Paulo de Assis]

Bjørn Staal’s Entangled Aesthetics: The Intersection of Quantum Mechanics, Blockchain, and Contemporary Art

by digitaloctopus

22 Sep 20245 EDITIONS

Bjorn Staal’s ENTANGLED is a profound meditation on connection, both in the quantum and digital realms. By fusing blockchain technology with the conceptual underpinnings of quantum entanglement, Staal offers a vision of art that is deeply enmeshed with the technological systems that shape contemporary world. His work suggests that just as quantum particles are never truly independent, neither are we, as individuals or as digital citizens. Our identities, our realities, and our futures are entangled in complex networks of technology, economy, and aesthetics. Staal’s work extends the notion of 'relational aesthetics' (Bourriaud) beyond the interpersonal to the posthuman—where the relations in question are not only between humans but between humans, technology, and the quantum fabric of the universe itself. The artwork becomes an evolving system of relations, reliant on the input of its audience to generate new iterations and connections across space and time.

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