Fertile Void

100 years after the first quantum experiments in western science, Fertile Void approaches quantum technology as a dynamic field of scientific, political, aesthetic, and cosmological inquiry in order to question the directionality, technological materiality, the terms of embodiment and cultural experiences it promises. As quantum science begins to emerge as a palpable reality through quantum technologies, the question of what is lost and what is gained in translations between theory and practice becomes central. Fertile Void seeks to map synergies between sciences, cultures, and the arts, as well as longer standing cosmologies on the creation of
living matter in all forms.

Examining the fundamental relationship between matter and energy (or ‘life force’), a theme central to many cosmologies across time and space, and inherent to how quantum mechanics understands the very makeup of the world, the event seeks to broaden our understanding of the technology itself and the philosophical conceptions it entails.

Fertile Void explores the notions of sociality that quantum physics proposes; how we can read them through different epistemologies and how can quantum technologies actualise these lines of inquiry?