As 2011 approaches an end, we were suprised to find that our project 'The 5th Dimensional Camera' had been included in a piece in Physics World – a universe away from Superflux's usual stomping ground! In 'Critical Point: Other-worldly Tales', Robert Crease investigates whether the appearance of parallel universes in art and pop culture have accurately portrayed the science behind the theory.
Writing about the 5th Dimension Camera, Crease comments:
'The 5th Dimensional Camera is more cerebral than the vicarious pleasures of “Store of the worlds”, the dazzling complexities of Anathem or the slapstick comedy of Family Guy’s multiverse episode. It is aimed more at the intellectual pleasure of puzzling out what it would be like to have technology to let us see evolving worlds not our own. But all applications of parallel worlds in artistic and popular culture have one thing in common: they have nothing to do with science, but with human life.'
Meanwhile, in Postscapes' Internet of Things Awards 2011, the video from 'Song of the Machine' won a People's Choice Award for the best individual work of design fiction. 'Electronic Countermeasures', a drone project produced in partnership with Liam Young and Eleanor Saitta, won the People's Choice Award as the most popular networked art project.
For us at Superflux, Postscapes' Awards provided a wide-ranging compilation of recent projects from a field that it's often hard to pin down – a useful tool to help us orient ourselves, and an opportunity to expose our work to a more general audience.
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