The fourth session of the seminar “Quantum Futures – Designing the Futures of Quantum Technologies”, is organized in collaboration with Alice Di Tucci and Paulo Itaborai from DESY's Center for Quantum Technologies and Applications (CQTA) and the QC-PAINT collective.
QC-PAINT is a collective focused on quantum-inspired visual arts, specifically involving traditional painting techniques. All of collective's work on quantum transformed classical master pieces is grounded in rigorous science and state-of-the-art quantum algorithms, while exploring early realizations from quantum computation mapped into stochastic digital visual aesthetics. QC-PAINT was featured on Ars Electronica 2025 with an exhibition and talk in Deep Space 8K, and has been very active in the scientific dissemination of new quantum technologies.

Alice Di Tucci is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Quantum Technologies and Applications of DESY. Physicist by training, her current work focuses on quantum algorithms and their use in machine learning, particle physics and optimization.
Paulo Itaborai (Itaborapuy) is an artist-researcher, computational physicist and music technologist and part of QC-PAINT. He is currently a PhD researcher at CQTA DESY on quantum algorithms for simulation and quantum error mitigation. He has experience in working with electroacoustic and contemporary music, and is a pioneering researcher in Quantum Computer Music, being one of the core organizers of the main conference on the topic (ISQCMC) https://isqcmc.org. His work has been used in musical performances with the London Sinfonietta, Theatro São Pedro Orchestra, in the CTM Festival and Ars Electronica, among others.

Session IV will include a hands-on coding session on quantum computing in digital visual arts and music. It will cover methods and practical exercises for implementing quantum circuits and mapping them onto images and sounds. Participants will learn about some examples of finished art pieces that used quantum algorithms in within their creation process.