2nd/3rd April 2025
Universität / Haute École
for student applications
Quantum Knowledge: States, Systems, Fictions is a symposium dedicated to reconsidering the social and the scientific together, from the perspectives of those quantum discoveries and tools that allow us to sense the world in a deeper and more meaningful way. Scientific and technological revolutions are often victims of unfortunate appropriations that expose them only as a danger to the social good and our planetary contract. Examining the inherent possibilities of quantum knowledges suggests the opportunity of preserving and expanding the values we believe in as a society with the help of a good science, with technologies and forms of intelligence that are not placed in opposition to art, democracy, and justice. Over the course of two days at Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW, a gathering of esteemed thinkers, physicists, artists, composers, computer scientists, curators, and technologists will discuss how quantum ideas and practices have irrevocably shaped their work and their thinking—artistic or otherwise—and how they might alter our own.
This symposium is held in conjunction with the UN’s International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
Registration DL: 15th March 2025