Building for Quantum follows the construction of the building that will host the sixth IBM quantum computer in the world. As quantum computing redefines the limits of knowledge, this video installation examines the imaginaries and aspirations surrounding the arrival of this technology. The film navigates the intersection of the physical and the philosophical within quantum architecture—juxtaposing the tangible, ordinary materials of brick and mortar with the meticulous precision required to sustain near-perfect vacuum chambers at temperatures colder than deep space. Building for Quantum dwells in the tension between the raw realities of construction, the surgical precision of machine processes, and the digital simulations that emerge within its circuits.
Participants
MARINA OTERO VERZIER, MANUEL CORREA, MANUELA SANCHO SÁNCHEZ, AND EMIL NYGARD OLSEN
MADRID, SPAIN; ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS; NEW YORK, USA; LONDON, UK; ARENDAL, NORWAY
Marina Otero Verzier, A Coruña, Spain, 1981. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and New York, USA.
Manuel Correa, Medellín, Colombia, 1991. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
Manuela Sancho Sánchez, Maó, Spain, 1997. Lives and works in London, UK.
Emil Nygård Olsen, Arendal, Norway, 1992. Lives and works in Arendal, Norway.
Authorial Collaborators
Javier Aizpurua, Miguel Arocena, Marta Chavarri, Arantzazu García Lekue, Francesc Monrabal
Technical Collaborators
Federico Gregorutti, Imall Technologies
Team
Alberto Blazquez (Sound Recording); Ana Robles Pérez (management)
Thanks
Javier Aizpurua (BasQ), Ricardo Diez Muiño (DIPC), Aitzol Zubizarrieta (Ikerbasque), Andrés Jaque (Columbia University, GSAPP), María Buey (Organismo, TBA21), Canfranc Underground Laboratory, Nieuwe Instituut, Roberto Santorelli, Leire Lopez, Gregorio Gonella, Monica Bello, Rocco Roncuzzi, Bouwko Landstra, Carla Chmiel
Supporters
Creative Industries Funds NL; BasQ (Basque Quantum) / Department of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government; Columbia University GSAPP
