Comprised of three parts of brown pattern-makers paper, Anti-Entropy presents the monumental formalisation and expansion of the video’s principal image. This body of work by Kentridge explores time and our changing cultural and standardised perceptions of time and space.īreaking away from a linear presentation, in Kentridge’s films, such as Anti-Mercator, images become increasingly incomplete, as if erased in Anti-Mercator the artist runs the film backwards so that drawings diminish rather than flourish. This immersive work explored the technology of time-keeping and string theory, created in dialogue with physicist Peter Galison, while the earlier preparatory Anti-Mercator work explored the suspension of time and the resistance of spatial and formal linearity presented by scientists such as Gerardus Mercator. Utilising charcoal, coloured pencil and paint on paper in the present work, Anti-Entropy, executed in 2011, invokes a key image from the artist’s Anti-Mercator video piece, a work created in preparation for the artist’s project The Refusal of Time at Documenta 13 in Kassel, 2012, later shown at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, with a version jointly purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Revisiting and reacting to philosophical, historical or political tropes, Kentridge conjures myriad themes in his polymorphic works, producing works on paper and videos which are both experimental, structurally fragmented and conceptually rich. Drawing on Richard Wagner’s notion of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, Kentridge’s sensory microcosms toy with the layering of multiple meanings. Ex-Machina: A History of Generative ArtĮxploring and championing a breadth of mediums, such as animation, collage, performance and drawing, William Kentridge’s complex creations are multifaceted in form, resonating with audiences through their exploration of the very fabric of our existence.Finally, a tentative and quantitative evaluation of complexity is proposed, also in relation to some empirical data (caenorhabditis elegans). This allows to compare various relevant coefficients appearing in these scaling laws, which fit empirical data. On the grounds of this approach, we analyze the metabolism and scaling laws. We then present, based on the existence of different time scales, a partition of ontogenetic time, in reference to entropy and anti-entropy variation. The first application of our proposal is a simple mathematical reconstruction of Gould's complexity curve of biomass over complexity as it applies to evolution. We borrow only the operatorial approach from this equation and do so using a classical framework, since we use real coefficients instead of complex ones, thus outside of the mathematical framework of quantum theories. A close analysis of anti-entropy will be performed from the perspective of a diffusion equation of biomass over "complexity" and, as a complementary approach and as a tool for specifying a source term, in connection to Schrödinger's method regarding his equation in the field of Quantum Mechanics. We examine far from equilibrium systems and we focus in particular on the production of global entropy associated to the irreversible character of the processes.
A traditional balance equation for the metabolism will then be extended to the new notion as specified by these principles.
To this purpose, we introduce two principles, in addition to the thermodynamic ones, which are (mathematically) compatible with traditional principles but which have no meaning with regard to inert matter. Abstract : This paper proposes a systemic perspective for some aspects of both phylogenesis and ontogenesis by expressing biological organization in terms of "anti-entropy", a notion to be defined below and which conceptually differs from the common use of "negative entropy".
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