Fertile Void

Fertile Void looks at the promises and narratives of quantum technologies through the lens of culturally situated, more-than-human, and counter-hegemonic epistemologies and the arts. 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 composition of the world, the programme seeks to broaden our understanding of the technologies in development and the philosophical conceptions they entail.

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Werner Heisenberg’s theorem commonly thought of as the initiation of quantum mechanics. In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), Fertile Void explores once more the notions of sociality, energy, and matter that quantum physics proposes, asking how these different epistemologies can be parsed and how quantum technologies might actualize these lines of inquiry.