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Original Simulations, Girl with earring, Maria Kling
Media art project that uses principles of quantum teleportation to transfer an artwork onto its own forgery. The work explores how originality shifts when images move between physical and digital forms. Fine art prints (on aluminium) are also available as part of the project.
Description
What does it take for an artwork to be considered an original? What does it imply? What happens when it is copied, digitised, forged or quantum teleported?
For these Original Simulations, mathematical simulations of quantum teleportation principles were used to “teleport” artworks onto their respective forgeries.
Quantum Teleportation destroys the “original” it is teleporting through the readout process and creates two new originals via entangled particles. The resulting pieces can either be explored with in the virtual gallery or appreciated in their physical materialisations.
Developed in collaboration with the Bristol Laboratory for Quantum Computing.
Full collection following available in high quality aluminium prints.
Original Simulation - Girl With Pearl Earring (by Maria Kling with Ker Siang Yeo, Sam Pallister & Henry Semenenko) quantum teleported: Girl With A Pearl Earring (by Johannes Vermeer & Forgery)
The old masters had large-scale workshops with people executing paintings for them. Even looking at the original, who painted it really?
And why is it priceless in the museum and not in the museum’s shop? Here the data of the “original” was quantum teleported onto the “forgery”.
Different degrees of correction in the algorithm and degrading entanglement.