Announcing: Nancy Burson's Quantum Observation Videos

16 new unique artworks by Nancy Burson:
Quantum Observation Videos

Releasing next Wednesday April 1, at 1pm EST here on our website

16 one-minute 1/1 videos, offered as Ethereum digital artworks

$1,000 each

Quantum Observation Videos are one-minute recordings of energies, captured in complete darkness during moments of joy with friends and family. Grounded in scientific observations that photon behavior is altered through acts of observation, these works bring attention to forms of energy that typically remain imperceptible.

Rooted in Burson’s three decade engagement with perceiving and translating these energies through drawing and painting, this video practice continues her effort to render phenomena that exist beyond conventional visibility. Over the past few years, new approaches have produced especially vivid and expressive results that more closely align with her observed experience – now presented as unique 1/1 video works on the Ethereum blockchain.

The videos are closely linked to photon-based phenomena observed while documenting Burson’s Quantum Entanglement paintings, where colors appear to shift, pulse, or flash in both daylight and darkness. She refers to this process as photon-ography – the convergence of light (photons) and digital imaging technologies. As with much work engaging perception as medium, the experience is inherently subjective; viewers often report differing color interpretations even when observing the same recording.

Burson’s work is situated within a lineage of artists who have treated light, perception, and signal as primary material – from James Turrell’s perceptual environments to Nam June Paik’s use of electronic interference, and more recent practices that visualize otherwise invisible systems. Yet her approach remains distinct in its intimacy, grounding these investigations in human presence and relational proximity.

Through these works, Burson advances an expanded form of videography – one that leverages the sensitivities of digital sensors to register subtle movements of light and energy typically obscured by visible form. What is usually dismissed as noise or interference is treated here as signal.

View each artwork and collect individual pieces from the link below.

Each collector of Quantum Observation Videos can also acquire a matching display, like the ones shown in the current "Light Matter" show at Heft, framed in a black-stained hardwood frame with a linen wrapped mat holding a 24" screen.

ALSO NEXT WEEK
Join us for an evening of Conversations
with Nancy Burson + Anthony Werhun

Tuesday, March 31st at 7pm

This Conversations event will explore the history leading up to Light Matter, including a screening of the short documentary film "It’s Not About Us", directed by Anthony Werhun. The discussion following will offer insight into the themes animating Burson’s Quantum Entanglement Paintings, Quantum Observation Videos, composite portraits, and sculptural experiences ongoing throughout the show.

All are welcome! RSVP below.

ONGOING AT HEFT
Visit Light Matter for a special experience

Nancy Burson’s sculptural experiences with Mary and the Quantum Spheres continues at Heft through April 11th.

Participants will sit with Burson’s sculpture and can shoot video of the observed photons around the sculpture by recording a video on their cellphones in the room’s complete darkness. Please reserve a space for yourself and friends as the room accommodates 5 participants at a time – Nancy will be your guide!