Each of the projects started at different times
So Project Nimbus started in 2007 in response to
A U.S military paper about non-lethal weapons
A lot of the other kind of science-art aspects to it began in 2011 with the phase revival
So that's a six metre kinetic sculpture which takes the quantum world in scale
Upto the human experience
And then since then, over the time Superposition has developed
Project Nimbus has developed with art/science collaboration
And then later on, Frozen Music. Which was a collaboration between a neuro-scientist
Myself, a creative programmer and musicians.
So, it's been an on-going process.
I think I've always been interested in story, so there's something about the way the world works
I always wanted to be a scientist when I was growing up
But I was no good at Maths
Which, turns out you don't need Maths anyway
But I always wanted to know how things work
And just wanting to find out through doing it, and taking it apart
Sort of tinkering, just finding out about the world through that way really
So, Project Nimbus, which is the world's first projection of moving images onto clouds from aircraft
The initial idea was 2007,  from the U.S military paper about projecting a guard onto
The clouds above a small village, they think it's rapture - the end of the world
So, I wanted to come up with a way of making an open-source cloud projecter
That I could share with artists and activists
2012, I was talking to John O'Shea and telling him about the project
He sort of suggested that I speak to these pilots, and different festivals
And before I knew it, I was doing a small little commission to see if it was possible.
We got together with a group of other people to see if we could kickstart a collaboration in Leeds
For other people to do interesting projects
And that's where the Superposition started...
With myself, these scientists and a couple of other artists and producers
And that's kind of grown over the three years
So now we do a yearly pop-up lab, which is where people get together for seven days
In a rapid prototype environment and they kind of make different projects
Some of the projects have been shown at DESY which is the Synchrotron in Hamburg
And presented to Noble Laureates, and all sorts of things
We're starting to understand what the model is
So, part of the reason for bringing all of the different models together here is
To try and understand how they work and
Just sitting back and kind of reflect on that
So, looking at Nimbus which is a four year project...
How can that be communicated on a single wall?
So, it's a lot about engaging the public to kind of have these conversations
To try and understand that.
With the Frozen Music Collective, that came about through doing some research
With EEG, which scans your brain waves
And we were looking at the creative application of that
So there's myself, Christoph who is a neuro-scientist
Chris Sharkey who is a Jazz musician
And Richard England and Paul Miller.
We got together and just started to experiment with how we could use people's brainwaves
To control projection mapping
And then, looking at different ideas about how that really interacts with sense of self
So, I suppose some of the dreams for Superposition is
That it becomes a model that other people can use to collaborate
So, the reason why we're doing an event here is that it might inspire other people to do it
We're just interested to see how that goes off into the world
And eventually I suppose it would be amazing that in ten years time
Some of the work we do now can really help
Changes things with how Art and Science are taught.
The way that people communicate with it so early on
In the process, as a pose to being two different things
Can really change the way that Art and Science and everything else is made.
