The Quantum Effect

Book launch.

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OGR Torino, the hub of Fondazione CRT, together with SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the publication The Quantum Effect, conceived and edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies.

The event will take place on Friday 8 May 2026, at 2 pm, in Venice, at SMAC Venice, Piazza San Marco 105. A light lunch will be served at 1 pm prior to the presentation.

The publication is conceived as an atypical object, designed as an integral part of the curatorial project rather than a traditional catalogue. Shaped like the black monolith from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, it echoes its mysterious form and guides the reader through a reflection on the spatial and temporal paradoxes introduced by quantum theory — including entanglement, superposition, parallel universes, teleportation and dark matter. The publication brings together artworks, films and scientific experiments in dialogue with quantum theories and their symbolic representations, in the form of equations assigned by Professor Ulf Danielsson, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

The volume anticipates the second chapter of the exhibition project, produced by SMAC Venice and OGR Torino and conceived for Venice and Turin. First presented in 2025 at SMAC Venice, The Quantum Effect, curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies, will open at OGR Torino in autumn 2026, during Turin’s art week, in a new site-specific configuration, open to the public from 31 October 2026 to 28 February 2027.