Ernest Edmonds

Quantum Tango Video is a recording of the screens seen during Quantum Tango (2025), a networked artwork that connected Gazelli Art House in London and Baku with the SIGGRAPH 2025 Art Exhibition in Vancouver. At each location, or node, a computer linked to a large display and a camera responded both to the movement of people in front of the screen and to what was happening in the other cities, creating an ever-changing blend of colour bands and images. The work is the latest in a long line that begins with Edmonds’ Communications Game, first exhibited in 1971, a network built from logic circuits through which people could interact before the internet existed. From 2007, his Cities Tango series used the internet to link cities across continents, from Melbourne and Berlin to Belfast and Sydney. In Quantum Tango, conventional logic gives way to quantum logic: bits become qubits, whose values are uncertain, so that the vertical colour stripes of earlier works turn into more irregular shapes and genuine uncertainty enters the image itself.