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Akil Kumarasamy Parses Quantum Plotlines and Large Language Models

The American writer provides insight into the (messy) collision of AI and the human condition in her deeply affecting debut novel

“Quantum computers might one day have the ability to push computational boundaries, allowing us to solve problems that have been intractable thus far, such as integer factorization, which is important for encryption.”
H.R.7535 – Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, a bill passed by U.S. Congress sponsoring IT, intellectual property, and software development “that can be easily updated to support cryptographic agility” if codebreaking quantum computing becomes a reality
“I would really suggest experimenting with IBM’s public quantum computers using their Qiskit textbook, extracting data from various algorithms and then using that to generate forms using Processing or Unity or another digital software package.”
– Artist and quantum physicist Libby Heany, providing a workflow that anyone (code savvy) could use to start experimenting with quantum computing
“Different possibilities are revealed, and others are destroyed. It breaks down the illusion of absolute truth. For me, this is a step forward in understanding ourselves, the world, and our place in it in new plural and relational ways.”
– British scientist-turned-artist Libby Heaney, on the implications of quantum computing. In her latest immersive installation Ent-, Heaney explores a “quantum aesthetic” that “reveals the pluralities at the heart of all matter.”
“Working with quantum physics can subvert the endless categorizations and control of humans and non-humans alike in pursuit of never-ending profits, causing accelerating alienation.”
– British artist and physicist Libby Heaney, on the positive potential of ‘thinking quantum.’ In the wake of her new quantum-coded immersive installation Ent- (2022), Heaney argues for new pluralities to “break down binary thinking and political polarisation, engendering community thought that might solve global problems.”

Libby Heaney’s Light Art Space (LAS) commission Ent- (2022) premieres at Schering Stiftung, Berlin, taking quantum computing as both medium and subject matter. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights (c.1490–1510), the British artist and physicist used quantum code to manipulate and animate her own paintings, creating “hybrid organisms, breathing landscapes, and exploding structures” inside the metaphorical black box of a 360° immersive installation.

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“What is in and what is out? Is the architecture of a commercial gallery a factor in your reception of its exhibition? Are the protestors in the museum’s lobby? What if the security guards have prevented the protestors from entering, but their chants filter in through a window?”
– The Art-agenda editorial team, in an incisive short text that cites quantum physics and a bronze sculpture of a cat to provoke readers to evaluate their measures of where the reading of an artwork starts and ends

Arts at CERN announces Philadelphia-based artist duo Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips known as Black Quantum Futurism are winners of the 9th Collide Residency award. Explorers of intersectional futurism and alternative temporal lenses, Ayewa and Phillips will be embedded at CERN this summer to extend their research and produce a new artwork based on their “CPT Symmetry and Violations” proposal. “The project seeks to understand the possibilities that quantum physics offers beyond the limitations of traditional, linear notions of time,” explain the artists.

“The maths checks out—and the results are the stuff of science fiction.”
– Australian physicist Fabio Costa, on a paper published in Classical and Quantum Gravity by University of Queensland physics undergraduate Germain Tobar that suggests space-time is self-correcting, making time travel viable without the paradoxes

After two years of extensive renovations, Brussel’s art and technology centre iMAL reopens with “Quantum: In Search of the Invisible,” an exhibition exploring the world of quantum physics. Featuring works by Julieta Aranda, James Bridle (A State of Sin, 2018, image), Yunchul Kim, Semiconductor, Suzanne Treister, Yu-Chen Wang, and others, the show assembles artist-scientist collaborations that emerged from the Arts at CERN residency program.

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