Part of Julia
Oldham's portfolio
Entanglement
2010
HD Video
Description: Entanglement, a collaborative work by video artist Julia Oldham, experimental physicist Eric Corwin and theoretical physicist Maxime Clusel, is a love story guided by quantum mechanics. In the video, a character called J writes love/rejection letters on entangled sheets of paper with her quantum pen. Her entangled letters remain in a superposition of states, in which neither can be defined as love letter nor rejection letter, until a measurement is taken. This collaborative piece translates complex theoretical science into a simple narrative about human relationships.
Determining the Speed of Light
2010
HD Video
Description: Part of the Fundamental Constants series, which examines and interprets historical physics experiments. In collaboration with Eric Corwin.
Weighing the Earth
2010
HD Video
Description: Part of the Fundamental Constants series, which examines and interprets historical physics experiments.
Reset
2010
HD Video
Description: Reset was completed during a two-month residency at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, KY. In this video, I attempt to reset the universe by wiring cypress knees.
Radio Prairie
2010
HD Video
Description: Part of the Possumhaw Plant Electrics series, in which I attempt to discover the inner working of pants through a series of experiments that measure radio/electric emanations from plant forms.
Radioactive Fairytale
2010
HD Video
Description: Radioactive Fairytale was completed during a two-month residency at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, KY. Over the course of the residency, I created a body of work using The Secret Life of Plants (Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird) as my guiding text for the project; this book describes a series of experiments of questionable scientific value, which attempt to measure the electrical emanations of plants in order to reveal plants’ telepathic nature. I designed my own set of experiments and performed them in the Arboretum. The resulting series of videos, titled Possumhaw Plant Electrics, is abstract and movement-oriented, and incorporates sound that is reminiscent of early science fiction films and radio shows.
Almost Frozen
2009
HD video
1:30
Mudeye
2009
HD video
2:00
Darkling
2008
HD video
1:30
Dragger
2006
Night Spider
2006
Pull
2005
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