Artist
Maria Kling
Scientific collaborators: Klaus Jöns & Sonja Barkhofen Software Support: Lukas Euler I build doors into fascination and exploration. My material is scientific phenomena and models, their beauty, implications, and parallels to current as well as eternal human topics. At the intersection of art, science, society, and technology, my work centers on the transformative exploration of scientific models and technologies through collaboration and connections to the human experience.
Artwork
Aufenthaltswahrscheinlichkeit
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down on a quantum photonic chip and have a
coffee with some entangled photons engaged in quantum computing? Your hot beverage or warm
touch changes the probabilities of stay for the photons, their “Aufenthaltswahrscheinlichkeit”. Stay a
bit yourself, explore, interact, have a coffee and a conversation.
The wooden inlays in the table sculpture, inspired by the design of quantum photonic chips, light up to
represent the probability of photons staying. Temperature sensors in the sculpture mirror heaters on
phaseshifters and enable you to influence those probabilities, and thus the chip, via body heat or hot
coffee or cold ice water.
〷◠‿◠〷 With kind support from the Anita Keijzer Foundation.