Quantum culture

Names

• Quantum Culture

Origin

• Offshoot of other uses of Quantum, such as Quantum Aesthetics, Quantum Mysticism and Quantum Thinking, as well as Digital Cultural and Transcultural Topics.
• Quantum Aesthetics is a movement born in the 1990s, Quantum Culture is used officially as early as 2002 in The World of Quantum Culture, a book edited by Manuel J. Caro and John W. Murphy with invited contributions from the Quantum Aesthetics Group, a collection of artists, writers and creatives.
• In relation to culture, art, music, film, aeshetics and the humanities.

Artists & Creators

• Quantum Aesthetics Group
• Kai (Kari) Altmann
• Emily Jones
• Konstantinos Meichanetzidis
• Pauline Oliveros
• Günseli Yalçinkaya
• Samar Younes aka Samaritual

Discussions

• "Quantum Art and UnCertainty", Masterclass by Paul Thomas, Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus, October 14 2024.

• "GLOBAL ART FORUM: IS QUANTUM THE NEW NEW PARADIGM?", Art Dubai at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, April 2025. Speakers: Günseli Yalçinkaya, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis. Moderator and Host: Declan Colquitt.

• "Impulse #6: Günseli Yalçınkaya: What’s A Quantum Culture?", LAS Art Foundation, May 03 2025.

• "The future of Quantum Culture Hacking w/ Samar Younes", Talk and Workshop by Samar Younes, Hosted By J. Paul N. and Gemma J., School of Critical Design, London, June 03 2025.

Publications

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

• R-U-In?S, Blog, Collective and Creative Projects by Kai (Kari) Altmann and invited contributors, 2008-.
• Garden Club, Blog, Collective and Creative Projects by Kai (Kari) Altmann and invited contributors, 2011-.
• Quantum Culture Dispatches, Newsletter by Samar Younes.
• Quantumculture.in

Videos, Podcasts

• Quantum Culture, Podcast, Soundcloud, 2014.

• "A Local Love Letter to Quantum Culture" by Amy Daroukakis with guest Samar Younes, Culture Connectors Podcast, April 16 2025.

Books

• Manuel J. Caro, John W. Murphy (eds.), The World of Quantum Culture, Praeger Publishers, 2002. Written about Quantum Aesthetics and the Quantum Aesthetics Group, but also the segue into the term Quantum Culture.

• Jeanne Boden, Extended Civilizations and Cultural Quantum: A new way of looking at cross-cultural communication, PUNCT点 Publications, Gent, 2017, 44pp.

• Gebhard Deißler, Quantum Culture: Blueprint of An Intercultural-Transcultural Fusion Science, D.E.A./UNIV. PARIS I, Munich, GRIN Verlag, 2021, 187pp.

• Pauline Oliveros, Quantum Listening, October 2024.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• Alan N. Shapiro, "From Digital Culture to Quantum Culture", July 03 2015.

See Also

Quantum Aesthetics, Quantum Thinking, Quantum Spirituality, Quantum Mysticism, Quantum Healing, Quantum Futurisms, Black Quantum Futurism, New World, Futurisms, Holistic Futurisms, Cultural Futurisms, Microcultural, Transcultural, Intercultural, Internet Cultural, Meta, Metta, Meta Art, Meta Images, Ambiguationist, Emergence, New Materialisms, Post-Conceptual, Post-Internet Art, Post-Internet Music, Post-Production, New Aesthetic, Circulationism, Pan-Optic, Abstraction