Entangled Entanglement
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On this evening, at the invitation of Reinhold Zisser—who runs the notgalerie in Seestadt Aspern, Vienna—a programme was realised that addressed the quantum phenomenon of entanglement through a lecture and a film screening.
In his presentation, Dr. Mehul Malik introduced the concepts of quantum superposition and entanglement, approaching their central questions while explaining their fundamental principles in an accessible way. He also reported on recent experiments with entangled photons conducted in Vienna, offering insights into current research.
Riccardo Giacconi’s film “Entangled (37 min)” (2014) takes the idea of entanglement as its point of departure and translates it into a filmic structure: four interviews conducted in Cali, Colombia—with a tailor, a puppeteer, a parapsychologist, and a physicist—interweave seemingly unrelated events into a network of hidden connections, raising questions about causality and relationality.
Program
■ RICCARDO GIACONNI: ENTANGLED (37 MIN)
Digital video, colour, sound, Spanish with English subtitles, 37 min, 2014
Biographies
Dr. Mehul Malik was born in New Delhi, India, and completed his PhD at the University of Rochester in New York. At the time of the event, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission to work with Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger, who is considered one of the pioneers of quantum physics. Malik’s research focuses on experimental studies of quantum entanglement and its applications in quantum communication and quantum information technology.