Multiverse is an artistic installation created by fuse that visualizes the multiverse theory concocted by Lee Smolin. The installation is composed of a digital display projected on a vertical screen and mirrors at it’s foot and head to generate an infinite number of reflections of said display. The display cycles through images generated by an openFrameworks application. While the physics in each generated image remains constant, randomly assigned parameters allow the application to generate a variety of images as infinite as the universes they represent.

There is an ingenuity in this work that fascinates me. The artist brilliantly captures the daunting concept of infinity through the parallel mirrors and randomly generated scenes whilst maintaining the constant of life and death through the physics. Furthermore, there is a remarkable poetry in allowing randomness to act on the piece as the enigmatic universe acts upon us.