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UnderTheGAN:Quantum
Early Pioneers of ⚛️ Art
UnderTheGAN:Quantum collection represents the next chapter in the captivating journey of art and technology's interplay, illustrating for the first time in human history the potential of art to articulate quantum phenomena. Emerging as a fresh avenue for creativity, quantum art began to carve its niche in early 2021, initiated by a vanguard of innovators who melded this technology with artistic expression.
Quantum art is more than just an aesthetic venture; it's a profound exploration into the fabric of reality itself. By harnessing the unpredictable and often mesmerizing outputs of real quantum computers, artists can create works that challenge our perceptions and engage with the very essence of nature's complexity. Quantum art serves as a bridge between the abstract, often intangible concepts of quantum physics and the visceral, emotional experience of art. It embodies a form of expression that transcends traditional mediums, offering insights into the chaotic beauty of the quantum world.
The inception of quantum art can be traced back to a visionary group of quantum physicists, computer scientists, and artists who, in 2021, began to experiment with the outputs of real quantum computers and blockchain as the basis for their creations. These pioneers understood the potential of quantum tech not just as a tool for scientific advancement but as a new medium for artistic exploration. These artists were not just creators but interpreters, translating the language of qubits and quantum states into something that could move, challenge, and inspire the human soul.
David Young · Guillaume Verdon · Libby Heaney · J. R. Huffman · Insigℏt · QuantumOak · Refik Anadol · Pindar Van Arman · Eduardo Miranda · Hackatao · Feynrats
2021 "Q" 🪐 by David Young
First ever quantum artwork minted by the artist on Ethereum. "This project is an exploration of quantum computing, an effort to develop an intuition of quantum physics through aesthetics. The works are based on data generated with quantum computers – the results of examining the values of entangled quantum bits, and the noise that is generated during decoherence." Learn more
"I interpret and visualize this data in order to reveal the unique and unprecedented characteristics of quantum computing. The drawings are explorations of the singular finding the multitude. Each is, at its most fundamental, a line. The line then evolves or devolves into all the all the variants that it can embody when pushed into its quantum self."
Q (a,v,7,m,d4b-21,7,14,18,45,55)
Q (a,v,7,m2,d4c-21,7,15,14,50,51)
2021 "Quantum Dreams" 🌌 by Guillaume Verdon
"The first ever NFT quantum neural generative art created using a real quantum computer. Here quantum neural networks running on an actual quantum computer were used to generate a depiction of early-universe quantum field fluctuations, the same process that seeded the matter density for our own observable universe." Learn more
"This quantum-AI-generative crypto art is a portrait embedded into a simulation of the Planckian quantum fluctuations of the early universe, around the time right after the Big Bang. To create this visualization, a simulation of the early multiverse quantum field fluctuations was generated by quantum-neural-networks whose outputs were sampled on a real IBM quantum computer."
Everettian vibrations
Quantum Ghosts #16
Quantum Ghosts #3
2022 "Quantum Walks" 🗾 by J. Russell Huffman
"This is a collection of artworks created with quantum computing powered random number generator. Each piece is unique, created with a different quantum computer, and truly random."
Quantum Walks Bogota
2022 "Sharp Scale - A quantum art series" by J. Russell Huffman
"The Sharp Scale is a series of quantum generative art pieces produced with an IBM Quantum system. Due to the probabilistic nature of quantum computers, the same algorithm produces different results on each execution, resulting in unique art pieces, a unique property to quantum generative art. Each NFT is named after one of the seven musical notes of a diatonic musical scale." Learn more
Mi Sharp
Fa Sharp
2021 "Synthetic Dreams" 🏞️ by Refik Anadol
"We've created unique "Quantum AI Data Paintings" using quantum bit strings generated from Google Quantum AI team's beyond classical experiment together with a Generative Adversarial Network machine learning algorithm."
"The data collection consists of 200 million raw images of landscapes around the world, including all the national parks in the US. By utilizing custom procedural coherent noise implementations and beyond classical measurements of computing surflets, we generated 1000 unique Quantum AI Data Paintings inspired by the natural world. Each painting is computed with a unique quantum bit string!"
Landscapes — 01001110110000100001110011101100001000110110111110000
Landscapes — 10001000101110010100001100011010101110110010111101100
Landscapes — 01101100100010011100110100101000110011010001100001111
2022 "Quantum Memories" 🌊 by Refik Anadol
"In Physics, quantum noise refers to the noise of uncertainty arising from random fluctuations in a system. Tapping into these random fluctuations as a unique realm of possibilities and predictions, Refik Anadol’s Quantum Memories: Noise utilizes Google AI’s most cutting-edge, publicly available quantum computation research data and algorithms to explore the possibility of a parallel world."
These algorithms allow Refik Anadol to speculate alternative modalities inside the most sophisticated computer available, and create new quantum noise-generated datasets as building blocks of these modalities. AI Data Painting piece is both inspired by and a speculation of the Many-Worlds Interpretation in quantum physics – a theory that holds that there are many parallel worlds that exist at the same space and time as our own.
Quantum Memories : Noise C
Quantum Memories : Noise B
Quantum Memories : Noise A
2022 "Quantum Noise" 🧮 by Pindar Van Arman
"While each of these may appear the same, they are actually unique generative pieces augmented with noise from the quantum computer ibmq_quinto. At regular scales our world is consistent and predictable, but at the quantum level everything is random and chaotic. Look closely at the details of this piece and you will see that it mimics this phenomenon."
Quantum Noise #30
2022 "Deeep Quantum" by Pindar Van Arman
AI art trained on data that was procedurally generated by quantum computers for deeep X London 2022.
Deeep Quantum 50
Deeep Quantum 49
Deeep Quantum 16
2021 "Venuses (quantum bodies)" 🖇 by Libby Heaney
"The subsequent frames in the animation were generated by passing the initial frame through quantum computing systems, which, through entangled pixels, fragments and inverts the image."
Venuses (quantum bodies watched by Open Pose algorithm)
2021 "Quantum Crypto" 🗺️ collection by QuantumOak
26 Quantum-Randomly Generated NFTs of Quantum Computing Circuit Experiment Data.
"Each token generated with quantum experiment data measured with IBM quantum computer chips. The process itself is non-fungible (each pattern can only be made once in 16^256+)." Learn more
Quantum Crypto #3333
Quantum Crypto #4096
Quantum Crypto #2011
2022 "Quantum Collapses" 🔮 by Insigħt
"The Quantum Collapses project is at the intersection of art, science, and technology. It is an ever-evolving, interactive journey in the Hilbert space, where quantum states live. The richness and mysteries of this space remind our unconscious mind."
Quantum Collapses #17
Quantum Collapses #313
Quantum Collapses #285
2022 "Quantum Jackie" 👨🎨 by Pindar Van Arman
Quantum Portraits procedurally generated by Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence.
Quantum Jackie
2022 "Decoherence" by Pindar Van Arman
"We are only probably here. There might be an explanation for our universe, but if you look closely enough, if you dig into the fibers, there is solid evidence that things aren't real. Decoherence explores the part of ourselves that questions reality. It visualizes impossible shapes, exotic dimensions, and alternate universes."
Soothing Cuboid
Raging Hypercube
2021 "Quantum Pointillism" 🦠 by Feynrats
"This work is a study on the quantization of color. The pixels composing the original figure are morphed into a web of planer shapes. Each shape is correlated to the next by the measurement outcomes of a variational quantum algorithm run on noisy quantum hardware."
VESTA
2023 "Aleph-0" 🪄 by HACKATAO + Insigℏt
"The investigation of analogies between the quantum world and the human inner world is a recurring element in the work of Insigℏt. The unconscious, a realm of duality, often reveals emotions as pairs of opposites. Fear and anger, love and hate. They exist in a state of tension, reflecting a qubit in a state of superposition."
Aleph-0 #325
Aleph-0 #169
Aleph-0 #335
2021 "Cortical Flow" by Eduardo Miranda
"An artistic rendering of a computer simulation of the cerebral cortex thinking. The soundtrack is a sonification of this artificial brain’s activity using algorithms inspired by quantum mechanics. The poem is in Vōv, a sister language of the Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, created by David J. Peterson for the opera "Lampedusa"."
Cortical Flow #1: What are you thinking, computer?
2021 "Atomicon" by insigħt and Eduardo Miranda
"ATOMICONS are created by numerically solving the Schrödinger equation for surface electrons in the presence of scattering atoms positioned by us. The artworks result from a 3D rendering of the obtained data. Ed Miranda, the composer, programmed a quantum computer to make thousands of tunes in superposition. Upon observation, the composer retrieved a few to compose this piece. Many more versions exist in the multiverse. Each ATOMICON can be realized and observed by using a scanning tunnel microscope (STM), a device based on quantum tunnelling. The STM can also be used to deliberately move atoms on the surface, allowing to create at the nanoscale."
Atomicon #0 – Democritus
Atomicon #0 – Democritus VR2
Landscapes — 01100111100111101011100001100101110001110000010110001
Quantum Collapses #73
Indeterminate Cuboid
Q 6