The Entangled Logic of Otherness
2025/26
2026
Hybrid Quantum Crystal
Hybrid Quantum Crystal
The Entangled Logic of Otherness is an ongoing artistic research project exploring the relationship between material processes, perception, and quantum computation.
At its core, the project investigates how reality is not a fixed structure, but emerges through interaction, overlap, and continuous reconfiguration.
The work builds on long-term sculptural research with crystal growth. Crystals are understood not as static objects, but as formations shaped by environmental conditions such as temperature, light, time, and fluctuation. Their growth makes visible how matter is constituted through relational processes.
These parameters — temperature, light intensity, atmospheric conditions, temporal rhythms — are translated into datasets and used as input for quantum computational processes.
Rather than simulating crystal growth, the quantum computer operates as a partner in generating new configurations. Computational processes based on entanglement, interference, and probabilistic states are mapped into spatial and sculptural structures.
The resulting installations form dynamic environments in which material, data, and perception are interwoven. They do not represent processes but make them physically and spatially experienceable.
The project approaches quantum computing not as a tool, but as a mode of thinking — opening new ways to understand relation, responsibility, and the conditions under which reality is produced.
Developed in dialogue with DESY (Zeuthen) and the Cyprus Institute, in engagement with leading research in quantum computing.
At its core, the project investigates how reality is not a fixed structure, but emerges through interaction, overlap, and continuous reconfiguration.
The work builds on long-term sculptural research with crystal growth. Crystals are understood not as static objects, but as formations shaped by environmental conditions such as temperature, light, time, and fluctuation. Their growth makes visible how matter is constituted through relational processes.
These parameters — temperature, light intensity, atmospheric conditions, temporal rhythms — are translated into datasets and used as input for quantum computational processes.
Rather than simulating crystal growth, the quantum computer operates as a partner in generating new configurations. Computational processes based on entanglement, interference, and probabilistic states are mapped into spatial and sculptural structures.
The resulting installations form dynamic environments in which material, data, and perception are interwoven. They do not represent processes but make them physically and spatially experienceable.
The project approaches quantum computing not as a tool, but as a mode of thinking — opening new ways to understand relation, responsibility, and the conditions under which reality is produced.
Developed in dialogue with DESY (Zeuthen) and the Cyprus Institute, in engagement with leading research in quantum computing.
© Antje Rieck, Berlin.