Stewart Smith: Digital Art meets Quantum Simulations

This is the 14th talk of Yale Quantum Institute series of nontechnical talks aiming to bring a new regard to quantum physics and STEM by having experts cast new light on often-overlooked aspects of scientific work.   For The Hapless Dreamers: Digital Art meets Quantum Simulations   Stewart Smith is a lucky guy. He gets paid to invent fun things. After working at renowned hybrid studios like Google’s Creative Lab and Data Arts Team, and founded Moar—a technology and strategy consultancy, digital artist and Head of Consumer Augmented Reality at Unity Stewart Smith is helping to craft the future of AR.  Join us to experience Stewart Smith’s hapless dream that will bring us to the many detours in his digital art practice takes: maintaining Q.js, a browser-based quantum circuit composer and simulation framework, creating virtual art applications, or exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, ZKM in Germany, the SFMOMA in San Francisco. What really makes him happy is partnering with smart friends to take on the impossible—or ridiculous.    More about Stewart Smith: https://stewartsmith.io/ For more information on everything quantum at Yale: https://quantuminstitute.yale.edu/   Co-sponsored by The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities   Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction 02:43 – Stewart Smith’s artworks 10:56 – Four projects 12:07 – Racer 17:29 – Autocompose 25:52 – Dance Tonight 34:09 – Quantum Simulator Q.js 46:25 – Q&A