Into the Void Quantum World-building & Iridescent Dreams

In the context of both discourse on and applications of emerging technologies, artists appear as seismologists and fortune tellers, explainers and solutionists. They write manifestos and create works that discuss the risks and dangers of new technologies, speculate on alternative futures, and forge more inclusive uses of technology. While AI has become a ubiquitous topic in the art world in recent years, quantum computing is becoming more prominent in its opening of new spacetime dimensions. With this new paradigm, what observable shifts and fundamental changes are to be found within the arts? What poetic spaces and aesthetic languages are being shaped and reconfigured? What aspects of quantum realities are crucial in artistic works?

Starting from artistic and personal acts of creative interventions and experiences connected to quantum technologies and science, this panel brings together artists across diverse disciplines to discuss artistic strategies that investigate the social, scientific, and economic environments of quantum computing, parallel universes, non-linear time, and history, as well as ancient technologies, other forms of knowledge, and dreams. How can alternative futures be envisioned that expand scientific methodologies and ground them in the diverse realities of the world?

The panel is part of the conference & programme Fertile Void taking place from November 1-10 at HKW.

Fertile Void is a cooperation between Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and the Goethe-Institut Irland / Studio Quantum, with participation of the JUNGEN AKADEMIE der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Schering Stiftung as well as the University of the Arts, Berlin. The project takes place in the frame of the Science Week.