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title: States of Matter
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The ancient Greeks translated the natural science of physics as “knowledge of nature”, it studies matter, its motion, and behaviour in relation to space and time. The ‘state’ of an element refers to the structure and form of its materiality within a specific moment in time. It is a temporal mode of existence, with the power to radically transform, when introduced to a new environment.

Hence, the state of the particles that make up one matter is not the same as another. In the same way that physics studies matter, this first issue analyses the nature of information and its physical embodiment through the lens of creative disciplines. States of Matter explores the changing materialities of digital systems and the impact of the interdependency between physical and digital spaces.

It questions the possibilities for what is matter, with the aim to provoke our current understandings, progress these concept between now and the future. Is matter a form of energy? Can we hold it? Can we interact with it? How can we further unpack the definitions of matter?