Artistic creativity has always held an element of mystery, and now it’s combining with the uncanny branch of physics that helps explain some of our universe’s deepest workings while powering a new generation of technology.
Quantum researchers in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences have partnered with creative scholars from the College of Arts and Humanities on seven newly funded research collaborations that will explore novel ways to engage people in thinking about our relationship to counterintuitive aspects of physics that will shape our collective future.
With grants totaling $54,650 from the Division of Research and Arts for All, the teams will spend the next several months delving into heady subjects like quantum entanglement and superposition, forging meaningful connections between scholars from two communities while engaging the public with a wide range of artistic media, including augmented and virtual reality, music, dance, computational poetry and sculpture.
“We are putting people in the room together who normally don’t have an opportunity to explore how their disciplines can be linked,” said Craig Kier, director of Arts for All, who with John Sawyer, director of the Mid Atlantic Quantum Institute, evaluated and selected the projects for funding through the inaugural Quantum & Arts supplemental to UMD’s ArtsAMPlification grant program. “We want to find a way to show that the University of Maryland is leading through action related to these two big initiatives.”
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