How can art and design communicate the abstract concepts of quantum computing to a larger audience? In an international teaching and research project, Köln International school of Design (Cologne, Germany) and the School of Art, Media, & Technology at Parsons School of Design (NYC,USA) collaborate with the DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security (Department of Quantum AI and Quantum-classical Hybrid Systems) to develop concepts of interactive installations that help understand the weirdness of the quantum computing world. After a visit to New York in October, both schools visit Amsterdam to work at the Waag FutureLab and for one-day symposium at the Sandberg Institute of Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Hosted by Anja Groten and Márk Redele, the event at Sandberg Institute on the 25th will feature an introduction to the collaboration by Nina Juric, Michie Pagulayan, Lasse Scherffig, and Sven Travis. This is followed by a keynote lecture by Agustina Woodgate, who will introduce her art and research projects on quantum communication. From DLR, Andrew Barlow will introduce his research group’s work on quantum computing and quantum AI. In addition, students of the project will present their work-in-progress prototypes and discuss them with faculty and graduate students of Sandberg Institute.
After the visit to Amsterdam, the group will continue working at KISD. Here, after working 8 weeks on this project, a final presentation is initiated on November 29, where a jury will select a winning prototype to be developed further.
Members of the jury are Sonja Eikenberg, Hans-Martin Rieser and Krzysztof Bieniasz (DLR) as well as Florian Jenett (HS Mainz).
If you are interested in joining the final event, please contact us via email.
More details about the project, check out: https://howtoshowoffquantumcomputing.cargo.site/
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Project Team
Prof. Nina Juric, Prof. Lasse Scherffig and Julius Walsch / Köln International School of Design, TH Köln with 10 students
Sven Travis, Michie Pagulayan and Brad MacDonald / Parsons School of Design, Design and Technology program, New York with 20 students
Prof. Dr. Frank Köster, Dr. Markus Lange, Dr. Hans-Martin Rieser / DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security, Department of Quantum AI and Quantum-classical Hybrid Systems, Sankt Augustin
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Studentteams KISD x PARSONS
Till Beyer, Sofia Fellinger, Seth Lukin, Colby Lamson-Gordon, Ziye An, Rishikaa Modi, Leon Scheuemann, Nele Obenbiermann, Christine Chang, Kritchaporn Kulrattanarak, Sara A. Celidonio, Liwenyi Zhang, Paul Abends, Lilith Meyer, Bini Park ,Lorraine Cruz ,Divija Diwan, Miao Lan Zhang, Milan Elsen, Cora Kindermann, Ashley Lee, Sofia Pristash, Sirui Liao, Zhuoyu Zhang , Aikaterini Sideri, Jana Hartmann, Prakhar Mittal, Paridhi Garg, Mika Arai , Yue Hu