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Papers, articles, interviews, exhibitions, and tools documenting the quantum computer art movement. New here? Start with the four picks below, or jump straight into the library.
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- 39
- Artists covered
- 7
- Years
- 2021–2026
Start here
Four reads to get your bearings
Concepts
The quantum ideas behind the work
Four properties of quantum systems that artists keep coming back to, and who works with each.
Superposition
A qubit holds a blend of 0 and 1 until it is measured. Artists render many states at once, before the collapse to one outcome.
Entanglement
Linked qubits share one state, so measuring one tells you about the other. It becomes a language for connection across distance.
Randomness
Quantum measurement is truly random, not pseudo-random. Works use it as a seed that no algorithm could predict.
Decoherence
Real hardware leaks into noise as qubits interact with their surroundings. Some artists treat that noise as the material itself.
Library
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39 resources
20264
- PaperQuantum Teleportation in Multi-Agent Systems for Interactive Music (opens in a new tab)
Research combining quantum teleportation with multi-agent systems to create interactive music reminiscent of free jazz improvisation.
Eduardo R. Miranda et al. · Eduardo R. Miranda →
- CollectionQuantum Echoes — Quip Network (opens in a new tab)
Free, open-source NFT collection on Ethereum where each token is seeded by verifiable randomness generated on real quantum hardware. First QFT collection with on-chain quantum verification.
Quip Network
- PlatformQuantum Art Lab — QRNG for Generative Art (opens in a new tab)
Platform advocating for quantum random number generation over pseudorandom in generative art, arguing Art Blocks and fxhash methods are insufficient.
Quantum Art Lab
- ArticleSurging Digital Art Sales Put Early Pioneers Back In The Spotlight (opens in a new tab)
Coverage of the resurgence of digital art sales, highlighting Quantum by Kevin McCoy as the first NFT and the growth of the quantum art market.
Forbes
20257
- ArticleQuantum Compositions and the Future of AI in Music (opens in a new tab)
Eduardo Miranda on his Qubism album using the IBM Quantum Eagle 127-qubit processor and the future of AI-quantum music.
IBM Think · Eduardo R. Miranda →
- ArticleInside the Brave New World of Quantum Art (opens in a new tab)
Meet the artists translating the strangeness of quantum fields into new ways of making and seeing art.
Artnet News
- ArticleQuantum Art: History of Generative Art (opens in a new tab)
How quantum computing offers entirely new possibilities for generative art, opening a chapter where quantum mechanics becomes both tool and inspiration.
Kate Vass Galerie · David Young →
- ExhibitionSeeing the Unseen: Quantum Physics and Art as Entangled Worlds (opens in a new tab)
Major exhibition exploring the entanglement of quantum physics and art, running December 2025 to September 2026 at ERES Foundation.
ERES Foundation
- InterviewThe Interview: Libby Heaney (opens in a new tab)
In-depth interview on quantum computing as an ontologically different class of computing and its implications for digital art.
Right Click Save · Libby Heaney →
- AuctionLibby Heaney: Quantum Climates at Sotheby's (opens in a new tab)
Heaney uses quantum entanglement to layer 32 videos simultaneously, highlighting superposition patterns. Sold at Sotheby's Contemporary Discoveries.
Sotheby's · Libby Heaney →
- ArticleDigital Art Acquisitions in 2025 — MoMA, Whitney, Centre Pompidou (opens in a new tab)
Major museum acquisitions of digital and NFT art in 2025, documenting institutional acceptance of blockchain-based art.
Right Click Save
20248
- InterviewBeff Jezos / Guillaume Verdon: Quantum Art, Tokenization & the Quantum Threat to Blockchain (opens in a new tab)
Collector Jediwolf interviews Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos) on quantum art, tokenization, and simulation theory. Verdon calls the quantum threat to Bitcoin real but ~15 years out, and describes Extropic as a physics-based generative-AI substrate using out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics rather than quantum mechanics.
Jediwolf · Guillaume Verdon →
- ThreadThe First Tokenized Quantum Neural Generative Art (opens in a new tab)
A deep-dive thread documenting Guillaume Verdon's Everettian Vibrations (minted early 2021) as the first-ever tokenized piece of quantum neural generative art created using an actual quantum computer — a genesis moment for on-chain quantum art.
Jediwolf · Guillaume Verdon →
- ArticleNew Album Fuses AI and Quantum Computing, Pushing Music's Limits (opens in a new tab)
Coverage of Eduardo Miranda's latest quantum music album and its implications for the field.
Leslie Katz, Forbes · Eduardo R. Miranda →
- ArticleBeyond Digital Beats: Quantum Computers and Future Music (opens in a new tab)
Exploration of how quantum computing is shaping the future of music composition and sound art.
Sounding Future · Eduardo R. Miranda →
- InterviewKevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain (opens in a new tab)
Interview with the creator of the world's first NFT, discussing the origins of Quantum and the bridge between net.art history and blockchain technology.
Le Random
- AcquisitionHivemind Adds 12 Refik Anadol Synthetic Dreams to the Digital Culture Fund (opens in a new tab)
Hivemind acquired twelve Synthetic Dreams works by Refik Anadol for its Digital Culture Fund Collection — described as the first-ever NFT collection built on quantum computation datasets, created in collaboration with Google.
Hivemind · Refik Anadol →
- AuctionRefik Anadol at Christie's (opens in a new tab)
TED Fellow and former Google artist-in-residence who uses quantum computing and AI to transform information into abstract art.
Christie's · Refik Anadol →
- PlatformQuaQS — Quantum Generative Art & Fractal NFTs (opens in a new tab)
Platform minting fractal NFTs on Solana using quantum state simulation, bridging quantum computing and decentralized Web3 blockchain ledgers.
QuaQS
20237
- GuideProgramming the Weird: A Guide to Quantum Computing for Artists (opens in a new tab)
Practical guide for artists looking to integrate quantum computing into their creative practice.
Libby Heaney · Libby Heaney →
- PodcastGuillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, e/acc, Physics, Computation & AGI (opens in a new tab)
In-depth discussion on the intersection of physics, computation, and accelerationism.
Lex Fridman Podcast #407 · Guillaume Verdon →
- ArticleQuantum Memories — Refik Anadol at NGV (opens in a new tab)
Coverage of the Quantum Memories exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, using D-Wave quantum computing data.
UCLA Newsroom · Refik Anadol →
- TutorialExhibition-Ready Quantum Image Processing (opens in a new tab)
Technical walkthrough of the QUANTUM ART exhibition at Microscope Gallery, showcasing artwork created using IBM Quantum Computers.
Russell Huffman, Qiskit · J. Russell Huffman →
- ArticleQuantum: The Story Behind the World's First NFT (opens in a new tab)
The history of Quantum by Kevin McCoy — the first NFT ever created, minted on Namecoin in May 2014. Later sold at Sotheby's for $1.4 million.
nft now
- ArticleAPI3 Integrates QuintessenceLabs for QRNG Service (opens in a new tab)
Integration of quantum random number generation into blockchain applications for NFTs and generative art.
PR Newswire
- ToolANU Quantum Random Number Generator (opens in a new tab)
Live quantum random numbers generated by measuring vacuum fluctuations with lasers. Powers API3 QRNG and used by multiple quantum art projects.
Australian National University
202211
- BookQuantum Computer Music (opens in a new tab)
Foundational text laying the groundwork for quantum computer music as an artistic and scientific discipline.
Eduardo R. Miranda · Eduardo R. Miranda →
- ArticleThere's a Burgeoning Quantum Art Scene (opens in a new tab)
Overview of the emerging quantum art movement and key practitioners.
Russell Huffman · J. Russell Huffman →
- ArticleQuantum Computing Visual Art — Libby Heaney (opens in a new tab)
Feature on pioneering use of quantum computing as a visual art medium in the UK.
Silicon Republic · Libby Heaney →
- ArticleSotheby's Showcasing Art's Quantum Leap (opens in a new tab)
Quantum Skull enters the Sotheby's Natively Digital auction — a milestone for quantum art in traditional art markets.
EIN Presswire · Van Arman →
- AuctionQuantum Skull at Sotheby's Natively Digital (opens in a new tab)
Van Arman and Huffman's Quantum Skull sold at Sotheby's — quantum-generated art entering the traditional auction world.
Sotheby's · Van Arman →
- ArticleFrom NFTs to Quantum Computing (opens in a new tab)
Deep exploration of the relationship between NFTs and quantum computing, covering superposition, entanglement, and how quantum tech intersects with blockchain art.
Right Click Save
- ToolAPI3 QRNG — Quantum Random Numbers for Web3 (opens in a new tab)
First true random number generator for smart contracts, powered by ANU quantum optics hardware. Free for developers to use for NFT minting and generative art.
API3
- ArticleA Quantum Generation — NFTs Generated by Quantum Physics (opens in a new tab)
Each NFT corresponds to a unique quantum state used to generate captivating images.
ernst.jo99 (Medium)
- CodeQuantum NFTs — Polar Bear Collection (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
Open-source project generating polar bear NFTs using a quantum computer, with OpenSea integration and ERC-721 smart contracts.
fingoldin
- CollectionDecoherence by Van Arman — OpenSea (opens in a new tab)
250-edition CloudPainter quantum decoherence collection.
OpenSea · Van Arman →
- CollectionReflection by Van Arman — OpenSea (opens in a new tab)
Reflection series exploring quantum states through AI-painted portraits.
OpenSea · Van Arman →
20211
- PaperQuantum Computer Music: Foundations and Initial Experiments (opens in a new tab)
Early research documenting the first experiments in quantum computer-generated music composition.
Eduardo R. Miranda · Eduardo R. Miranda →
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- ReferenceEffective Accelerationism — Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
The e/acc movement co-founded by quantum computing researcher and artist Guillaume Verdon.
Wikipedia · Guillaume Verdon →
Before quantum computers
Historical context
The relationship between quantum physics and art predates quantum computers. Salvador Dalí coined “quantum realism” in 1959, and the Surrealists explicitly referenced relativity and quantum mechanics.
Quantum Mysticism (opens in a new tab)
The philosophical tradition connecting quantum mechanics to consciousness and artistic perception.
Nuclear Mysticism — Tufts University (opens in a new tab)
Scholarly examination of Dalí's Nuclear Mysticism period — painting imagery as if disintegrating into atoms floating in space.
Nuclear Mysticism — Dalí and Science (NGV) (opens in a new tab)
Dalí quoted Schrödinger to challenge the borders between art and science, using modern physics to reinterpret religion.
Surrealism, Art and Modern Science (Nature) (opens in a new tab)
The links between Surrealism and physics are explicit. Dalí intended his drooping watches to allude to distorted space-time.
Living Still Life — Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Dalí's Living Still Life — disintegrating forms representing atomic structure, a key Nuclear Mysticism work.
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