the constructed fabric, the consciously-induced collapse into classicality, the chaos of cosmic censorship

Salma Ragheb, Studio Stream

Karen Kraven and Gareth Long, Advisor

For her thesis, Salma is generating a visual response to the disconnect between quantum and classical principles of modern physics. In addressing this disconnect, there is an inevitable reference to the role of the conscious observer in reifying the universe as a participatory circuit. Salma’s work criticizes endeavours to unify quantum theory and general relativity and their necessary limitations to the observable. A salient thread in Salma’s work is the tuning of visual immediacy through modalities of transparency, perforations, blocking, and folding. These interventions index specific concepts like superposition and the collapse of the wave function, but they also accommodate a general reading about discontinuities in theoretical physics.