Rather than following the R-nought number—the epidemiological measure of rate of infection—the Quartz Inversion community will grow according to a Rate of Affection where Ra=1.

Thus, each artist invited in QI Round One was asked to nominate one artist for QI Round Two, opening up the project to a self-organizing curatorial strategy. The artists in this second cohort have each nominated another artist for QI Round Three, to be launched in late spring 2021.