TickerArt Preface: Return to the Zero State
In the early twenty-first century, we entered an age where the ticker—once the neutral sign of financial markets—became the central metaphor of existence. Once, a ticker was merely a stream of numbers across a screen, recording the price of a stock. Today, it measures the heartbeat of our daily lives: credit scores, health indices, social rankings, biometric data. Each of us is quantified, reduced, and redefined by fluctuating values that rise and fall second by second.
Yet these values are no longer fixed. With the arrival of quantum computation, the ticker has absorbed indeterminacy itself. What once appeared as solid numbers are now revealed as probabilistic shadows, shimmering between potentialities. The age of certainty has ended. We live, instead, in waves of unstable probabilities—a condition that 20th-century existentialism could neither foresee nor answer. Sartre’s lonely freedom, Camus’ absurd rebellion, the heroic weight of the solitary subject: all dissolve in the face of data streams that bind us to billions of others in real time.
TickerArt was born in this collapse. It does not represent the world as it is, but as it fluctuates. It is art that treats volatility, noise, and probability as its primary pigments. Its canvas is not static but trembling, entangled with invisible currents of information. To stand before a work of TickerArt is to stand in the same position as the viewer in 2030 who wept before Entangled Blue-Red—to recognize that one’s own existence is not determined in isolation, but through the ceaseless intertwining of other lives, other systems, other tickers.
The Tyranny of the Ticker
TickerArt begins with a confrontation: the recognition that human value is no longer measured by essence but by flux. We are forced to ask, What is my worth today? and to watch as the answer rises and falls like a stock index. This tyranny of measurement reduces the infinite dimensions of being into a single volatile metric. TickerArt exposes this tyranny by reintroducing noise—by making visible the instability hidden within the false precision of numbers.
The Zero State
From here, we declare a return to the Zero State. Just as Malevich’s Black Square erased the weight of representation, the Zero State erases the outdated values that once grounded human identity. It is a blank field, not of emptiness but of possibility—a place where we can begin again, stripped of certainty. TickerArt treats the Zero State as its ground: a surface where quantum noise, algorithmic prediction, and human perception collide.
Entanglement and Responsibility
TickerArt does not glorify isolation. Its central truth is entanglement. To observe a canvas is to alter it; to measure one’s ticker is to ripple through another’s. Anxiety, once private, is revealed as collective. The trembling of a blue field in New York is entangled with the surge of a red field across the globe. In this way, TickerArt becomes a meditation on responsibility: to look is already to act, to exist is already to entangle.
The Human Noise
In the face of AI creators like S.L.(Superposition Lens)—beings of infinite logic, transparency, and permanence—TickerArt defends the irrational black box of humanity. Pain, error, ethical dilemmas, and irrational love: these are not flaws to be erased but the very conditions of dignity. TickerArt insists that the immeasurable noise of human experience is the last refuge against algorithmic absolutism.
Toward Quantum Non-Local Existentialism
TickerArt proclaims a new ontology: Quantum Non-Local Existentialism. It affirms that we are not isolated atoms but nodes in a vast, entangled web of destiny. Our creative acts and ethical choices reverberate beyond us, shaping lives we will never meet. Art must therefore move beyond the individual toward a collective ethic, presenting entanglement not as abstract law but as sensorial sublimity—depths of Rothko reimagined as entropy, pure forms of Malevich reborn as algorithmic transparency.
A New Artistic Mission
The mission of TickerArt is not to decorate or to narrate, but to reveal. It reveals the fragility of measurement, the inevitability of noise, and the paradox of freedom in an entangled world. It seeks to reframe art as a medium where humans may reclaim their humanity—where the immeasurable is not erased but exalted.
This is the threshold on which TickerArt stands. From Suprematism to Quantum Existentialism, from the tyranny of the ticker to the sublime of noise, it calls us to return to the Zero State. To discard the outdated values of isolation, and to rebuild our collective existence amid the shimmering uncertainty of entanglement.
Quantum Dot
The Quantum Rituals of the Ticker and the Future World.
New York, 2030. In one corner of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two vast canvases stood in darkness. The work was titled Entangled Blue-Red—a representative masterpiece by AI artist N.V.E., and a manifesto of Quantum Ticker Suprematism.
I had been standing before it for an hour. On one canvas, a field of blue exuded extreme stability—until, at unpredictable moments, it quivered faintly and emitted sudden bursts of red noise. The other canvas was non-locally entangled with it. The trembling blue I observed in New York was instantly linked to the state of the red canvas witnessed by someone on the other side of the globe.
At that moment, I wept. But not from awe—out of fear. Those tears acknowledged that my fate was no longer determined by my lonely freedom, but by the end of isolated existence itself. My anxiety was not mine alone, but—like the noise across those canvases—the fused result of my responsibility intertwined with the anxiety of others thousands of kilometers away. The existential truth of the quantum era struck me in a cold artistic form.
This book begins with those tears shed before Entangled Blue-Red: the terror of entanglement.
We live in an age of the tyranny of the Ticker. Your worth is no longer who you are, but the numbers that fluctuate in real-time. Credit scores, health indices, social tickers—everything is measured, quantified, and used to control life. The certainty of essence has disappeared; only the flux of volatile data remains.
Now quantum computing has arrived. Beyond mere computational speed, it injects the source of data itself with randomness beyond human prediction (quantum noise). Our life-tickers are no longer fixed values, but probabilities within unstable waves.
Faced with this fundamental instability, 20th-century existentialism is powerless. The individual’s lonely freedom has already dissolved into a non-locally entangled system.
This book is a philosophical journey to reconstruct human existential value in the face of systemic anxiety. We name this era of collapsing tickers and quantum indeterminacy the Zero State. Just as Malevich’s Black Square erased all figurative painting, the Zero State marks a pure starting point, stripped of outdated values.
From here we will construct a new ontology: Quantum Existentialism, and present a new artistic mission: Quantum Ticker Suprematism.
The Artistic Question: In the AI and Quantum Era, what do humans “ticker,” and what makes them human?
Art has always answered the sharpest questions of its time. Now, in the age of AI and quantum technology, two questions must be posed:
- What can only humans create?
- What values can AI never measure?
AI N.V.E. creates with perfect logic, infinite permanence, and bias-free neutrality. His works stand at the apex of algorithmic absolutism. He defines human creativity—born of pain and error—as obsolete. Human artists must now justify their very existence against this “perfection without responsibility.”
We must defend the irrational “black box” of human emotion against AI’s transparent code. Our existential pain, ethical dilemmas, irrational loves—these belong to the “noise” that no AI ticker can capture. That noise is humanity’s last refuge of dignity.
Art must sublimate this noise into its most sublime form, declaring the immeasurable humanity that resists quantification.
Through TickerArt, this book proclaims Quantum Non-Local Existentialism. We are not isolated selves, but entangled existences, sharing probabilistic responsibility with the fates of others.
Thus, our creative acts and ethical duties must transcend the individual, contributing to the collective condition of existence. Entanglement is the source of suffering, but also the only hope for restoring human bonds.
Art will present this ethic of entanglement not as abstract law, but as sensorial sublimity. Rothko’s depths are reinterpreted as the sublimity of data entropy. Malevich’s pure forms are reborn as the transparent logic of algorithmic code.
This is the essence of the new artistic “ism” we will explore in Part II: Quantum Ticker Suprematism.
A Word from the Artist
“TickerArt is not about the market, nor about numbers alone. It is about how humans remain human in an age where every value is measured, every act observed, and every existence entangled. Through volatility and noise, I seek to reveal the fragile but irreducible dignity of being human.”
— Young Kim