Episode 20 - Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe

Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe is an exhibition currently showing in Nottingham at the Djanogly art gallery, lakeside, University of Nottingham Campus. It opened at the end of January and runs until the end of April.

It is a multi-media exploration of how we can attempt to understand aspects of the universe so small, too vast and so distant that they are beyond the comprehension of our five senses. The exhibition was four years in the making, and coincides with 100 years of quantum mechanics.

Dr Ulrike Kuchner is Senior Research Fellow, at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham university and is one of the two curators of this ambitious exhibition. With her co-curator, Professor Silke Weinfurtner (School of Mathematical Sciences), Dr Kuchner founded the ARTlab, the University’s first ArtScience experimentation space. The curators brought together nine artists to work in residence alongside quantum scientists, particle physicists and astrophysicists investigating the early universe and black holes.

Jo Herlihy studied art at college and her love has remained over time although her day job is supporting people in business change projects.

Jo Herlihy is the author of the 2019 book, Alchemy: A Search for Truth. Her review of the Cosmic Titans exhibition can be found here.

Visit ARTlab website. / Visit Lakeside Arts / Watch Quantum Lens video.