In 2002, IFF director
Margaret Wertheim guest curated an exhibition at the Santa Monica
Museum of Art based on the life and work of outsider physicist James
Carter. A former abalone diver and gold miner, Carter has articulated
an entire alternative theory of physics from the subatomic to the
intergalactic. This radically other vision of reality is based around
Carter’s concept of the “circlon,” a ring shaped
particle he believes is the fundamental form from which everything
in the universe is constructed.