2023
“Heavy-Metal-Verses” is an artistic research that explores the poetics of physics and establishes a search for analogies between physics and human relationships, as well as artistic and poetic creation itself. It has been developed in the program Artist-in-Science-Residence of Kultur einer Digitalstadt (Darmstadt) in collaboration with GSI/FAIR.
Two artworks were created through this research: the interactive web "Eternal state of Birth" and the interactive installation "Eternal state of Verse".
The starting point is the kilonova as an event that leads to creation through destruction, an end that becomes a beginning. Two neutron stars in a binary system orbit each other until they finally collide, creating an environment of high neutron density and high temperature through the merger process, which gives birth to new elements, the synthesis of heavy, radioactive atomic nuclei. The glow of electromagnetic radiation emitted at this moment, when the unstable nuclei decay, is what is known as the kilonova. Through research in collaboration with GSI/FAIR, this field has been extended backwards and forwards, to the supernovae that precede neutron stars and to the collisions that take place inside the GSI facility.