Superstring Installation (proposed by Michael Petry):

This would be an interactive self-defining, ongoing project that would take place at the start of the conference and run throughout its 2 days. A final visual element will emerge from the participation of all the conference members, speakers as well as attendees.

According to lead theorists (like David Peat) super strings run throughout the universe taking material from one end to another. Yet they interact on our perceived notion of the universe at such an infinitesimally small level, that we do not see or feel these transfers. Such strings are said to pass through our physical bodies continuously going through the space between atoms, and subatomic particles. Particles like neutrinos are so un-interactive that they pass through us without ever disrupting our subatomic elements. Petry would ask each person to attach at least one section of string to different parts of the room (with staplers provided) at the start of every session. They could of course do many, or use the break periods to make even greater interventions.

In essence, the room will become wrapped in miles of elastic string, going from floor to wall, ceiling to door, wherever anyone wanted to attach two end points. Viewers would eventually be able to enter and bounce around the space.

Often it is asked how artists can lead scientists to an understanding of the world, and while there are many examples, Petry would suggest that the visual metaphor of the bound room being a pattern for space, and yet a bound restricted space presents a paradox similar to that of the Wormhole. In a Wormhole, given the technology, we could as we exited one, see ourselves enter it. In a bound room, the depiction of freedom and its boundaries can be drawn and complexity will see art and science merge.