Fracture
Fissures Between Universes
Fracture is an interactive art installation that makes the invisible visible. Through the interplay of light, water, and mechanical energy, the project simulates a rift in space-time: a crack between dimensions, captured in motion and projected into our world.
When is a fish tank not a fish tank?
Project Type:
Art Instalation
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Year: 2018
Team: Juan Fankhauser
Valentina Runcique
Role: Concept Development, Experience Design, Prototyping, Photography
The Concept
Fracture is an immersive installation that visualizes hidden nano-scale dimensions, inspired by M-Theory. It bridges art and science, inviting viewers to explore unseen realities. The project encourages observers to question their perceptions of reality, aiming to expand their awareness and curiosity of invisible dimensions through a provoking experience.
Features and Elements
We generate an immersion in our dimensions, alluding to an idea of how we believe a dimensional rift might appear in our world through the following resources and their respective representations:
Water in a tank symbolizes space-time perceived dimensions.
Motors act as two particles colliding with each other, creating fissures in our perception of current reality.
Light projection serves as a portal, inviting participants to transit to new dimensions and perceive the nano-universe.
A Glimpse Into the Unknown
Fracture proposes a raw, poetic metaphor:
A universe that exists before our eyes, but is hidden from them.
It invites audiences to imagine the energy and tension behind dimensional boundaries—and to feel, if only briefly, what might lie on the other side.
Process
The M Theory proposes that if we had a "super microscope" and observed an atom through it, we wouldn't see a particle shaped like a point but rather a small vibrating string. Thus, all the particles composing the universe would be strings vibrating at different frequencies. Additionally, it posits the existence of 11 dimensions in our universe, of which, with our rudimentary equipment, we can only detect four. This is why the fifth dimension is the first great enigma.
The first question posed by theorists is, where are the higher dimensions? Theodor Kaluza proposed, in a letter to Einstein, that if one manually separated the pieces of four dimensions contained within the equations of five dimensions, one would automatically find Maxwell's theory of light.
Through experimentation with light and photography, we explored a graphic representation that allows us to observe our understanding of the nano-universe and quantum physics theories.
Final Instalation
"In other words, Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic force comes precisely from Einstein's gravity equations simply by adding a fifth dimension. Although we cannot see the fifth dimension, waves can form in it that correspond to light waves (...) Now these complex equations effortlessly arise as the simplest vibrations one can find in the fifth dimension" (Kaku, 2008, p. 265).
That is to say, "we cannot see the fifth dimension, but the waves in the fifth dimension appear to us in the form of light" (Kaku, 2008, p. 266).
Additionally, the M Theory asserts that to traverse from one dimension to another, a high concentration of energy is needed to create a rift in space-time and thus shift dimensions or universes.
