Overview

Quantum Theater takes quantum science as subject and method for immersive theater. Phenomena like entanglement, superposition, coherence, and collapse shape the performance in a post-AI exploration of liveness, variability, and improv. Multiple realities are layered on stage, where the audience as observer-participant plays an active role in cohering singular narratives.

Details

Coming in 2025.

Staging

Images by Sam Bendix.

Team

Ash Smith - Speculative Devices Lab, Johnny Carson for Emerging Media Arts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - asheveryday.com

Robert Twomey - Machine Cohabitation Lab (cohab-lab.net), UCSD Department of Visual Arts and Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination - roberttwomey.com

Reid Brockmeier - Creative Technologist, Awareness Lab and Speculative Devices Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Samantha Bendix - Artist, Designer, and Developer for Immersive Media, Speculative Devices Lab and Edgeworks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

References

This project is made possible through support from the Grand Challenge Grant Quantum Approaches Addressing Global Threats (PIs Binek and Hermiller), University of Nebraska-Lincoln