QUANTUM NATURE

With the immersive installation QUANTUM NATURE, new media artist
Robi Voigt and AI & data scientist Tobias Wursthorn develop a visually spectacular plant and climate cosmos. The fine line between the real and the imaginary, between past, present and future scenarios can be experienced through the senses.

DIGITAL BOTANY & SPECULATIVE ECOLOGY.

For QUANTUM NATURE, they work with the digitized herbarium of Franz Joseph Lagger (1799-1870) from the collection of the Natural History Museum Freiburg (NHMF). The 18,000 herbarium specimens have been digitized in recent years. The resulting plant images were then used as training data for imaging AI models. The AI models generate thousands of new plant images from the source material, modified in form and structure. The artist Robi Voigt selects, manipulates and processes these into botanical visions and combines them with images of natural and climate crises from the last few centuries to create an actual ecomorphosis. This is commented on by a voice AI.
The result is a 34.33-minute video loop of a constantly changing visual landscape in the form of the room-filling, accessible installation QUANTUM NATURE.
With QUANTUM NATURE, visitors embark on a unique journey through time as the flora of the last 200 years unfolds before them and combines with climate visions of the present and future. Poetic, visually powerful and interactive, QUANTUM NATURE sensitizes visitors to the transience of our planet and the little-known beauty of herbaria.

QUANTUM NATURE
Robi Voigt & Tobias Wursthorn
Audiovisuelle Rauminstallation, 5-Channel +
GAN, LDM, LLM, ChatGPT-4
Loop 34.33 min, 2024-2025
Naturhistorisches Museum Fribourg, CH