Where the Rainbow Touches the Forest: Opening Conversation
with Linda Doyle, Gesche Joost, Odun Orimolade, moderated by Ivette Fuentes
Panel Conversation
Fr., 1.11.2024
18:30
Sylvia Wynter Foyer
In English with simultaneous German translation
Free entry
How do a design researcher, an engineering professor, an artist, and a physicist experience the current dynamics of quantum science and technologies, and what do they have to do with the realities of our everyday lives? Similar to the point at which a rainbow touches a forest, quantum science and technology seem at times like a mirage: we think we can see its promises materialize, and yet, when moving closer, its materiality escapes from sight. This interdisciplinary conversation lays the foundations for engaging with all things quantum, giving initiates and laypeople alike the opportunity to consider the questions emerging from its physical theories anew. It is programmatic for the entanglements of the theory itself, when art and science, philosophy and matter converge in conversation. How can an understanding of quantum science and the machines that develop from it be democratized, and what will this do to our individual and collective understandings of self and reality? Will quantum processors finally achieve the long-awaited singularity? And what does it say about humans that we live according to a reality that coexists with a different theory of reality completely incongruent with what we experience?