Roman Lipski Studio was proud to partner with Universität der Künste Berlin and Goethe-Institut’s Studio Quantum on this very special event for Berlin Science Week 2023! We welcomed the public to Einstein Center Digital Future for an evening of exploratory conversation and performance around the potential of quantum creativity.

Speakers/Performers
Prof. Dr. Oliver Benson (Professor for Experimental Physics, HU )
Roman Lipski (artist)
Prof. Dr. Tim Schröder (Head of the Integrated Quantum Photonics Group, HU)
Hannah Schillinger (choreographer, dancer and visual artist)
Amy Karle (artist)
Moderated by Roisin Kiberd

This special live edition of the online colloquium “Exploring Quantum Through Art and Design” was by Roman Lipski Studio, Universität der Künste Berlin and Studio Quantum. ⁠

During Berlin Art Week in the Autumn of 2023, short profile film on Roman Lipski, created by Highlight, was previewed. Highlight visited Lipski in his studio, capturing some candid and humorous moments edited together by Mama Papa Cola into this short. This is one of the first in their series of fresh, bite-sized and insightful artist profiles.

Watch the full film HERE

Studio Roman Lipski is thrilled to announce that the Julia Stoschek Foundation now owns the series of video works shown at JSF Berlin earlier this year. The piece, a series of eight, 3 minute moving image works and titled This Permanent Other Landscape after the exhibition, represented my inaugural foray into presenting Quantum Blur work digitally.

As described by the curator of the exhibition, Laura López Paniagua:⁠ ‘A 2D digitalised landscape painting is extruded through QB, becoming a topography instead of a flat image, a sort of new 3D artefact. This exhibition showed [Lipski's] first incursions into the third dimension. He is now producing films, allowing the visitor to fly through these emerging worlds that can now be perceived volumetrically in the virtual space. These visual voyages are auditory experiences as well, since [composer] Han is able to modulate experimental sounds according to the visual parameters of each pixel (hue, saturation, brightness, and height in the QB topography). Is this the first time that landscape painting can be perceived, not from an orthogonal, distant, perspective, but from its inside, in a broad sense?’⁠

I’m honoured that this piece is now part of the esteemed JSF collection. Thanks go out to Julia and the JSF Team.

For those interested in exploring "This Permanent Other Landscape" you can find more details in the JSF collection HERE

Roman Lipski will give a guest lecture this autumn as part of a short course offered by UdK on exhibition design - with a look at design, media, digitisation and sustainability. The course application Deadline is 10.08.2023 ⁠⁠The exhibition design certificate course offers part-time, modular training in a compact form. The practice-oriented format with a broad content is realised in cooperation with exhibition institutions, universities and companies active in the exhibition sector. Knowledge of the planning and implementation of design concepts is imparted in theory and practice. Lectures and excursions offer insights into the work of exhibition venues, agencies and different exhibition formats. A current focus of this course is on the topic of sustainable exhibition design.⁠⁠

Run period: 07.09.2023 – 25.11.2023⁠
4 Module⁠Application
Deadline: 10.08.2023

Click here to register

"One step forward, two steps back” is a well-known quote: with every step forward, every innovation, every trip into the unknown we expose ourselves to dangers. It is much safer and more comfortable to take the old familiar path where the ground is well trodden and the vegetation is pushed back. We advance quickly and do not stumble. But we already know where the path will take us. The steps we take determine our future.

At TEDxMünster on 23rd June, we explored the interaction between "forwards / backwards" with Roman Lipski and other stimulating speakers thinking about traditions and innovations and exchanging ideas about what is worth keeping and what needs to change.

Roman Lipski was invited to speak at an exploratory networking and development session for a new artist-in-residence programme around quantum technologies and the arts on June 15th at the Goethe Institut Berlin.

The event brought together perspectives from artistic, cultural, technology, and scientific sectors.

Together we explored how members of the aforementioned sectors can work together in a meaningful way to support artists and foster public understanding and dialogue around emerging quantum technologies.  

Speakers:

Roman Lipski (Artist)

Evelyn Nossol (Communications Manager, LAS Art Foundation)

John Goold (Associate Professor, Physics, Trinity College Dublin)

Hackathon Session centred on the application of Artificial Intelligence in the Circular Economy. This session highlighted a six-month Innovation Programme, a collaborative effort between N3XTCODER, Berliner Stadtreinigung, Berlin Recycling, Berlin Partner and re:publica.

A diverse mix of tech enthusiasts, social entrepreneurs, and industry experts who have worked together to identify, support, and enhance promising AI solutions came together. This collaboration formed the basis of the Open Innovation Impact Programme, designed to encourage collective knowledge sharing and innovation.

The session, as part of N3XTCODERS "Innovate by Doing!" philosophy, culminated in the selection of three winning projects, and a panel of expert speakers.

Speakers:

Roman Lipski and Florian Dohmann, Bianka Rieder , Dina Padalkina, Jonathan Moore, Alexander Balas.

Moderated by: Mi-Ra Tai

The next event in a Generative AI series from Meetup AI [berlin], this time looking at Ai and Art. AI has been in the news since the launch of Dall-E, Midjourney and so many others, and consistently raises questions regarding ownership, copyright, and the extent of the impact of AI in the industry.

To kickstart discussion, we will have a short introductory talk by Nicholas Borsotto, setting up the scene for a multi-disciplinary panel moderated by Hannah Payette Peterson to look at some of the questions surrounding those tools, and how technologists and artists feel about their ramifications for the future

Panelists: Allison W. Sommers - a mixed media ArtistLucas Kummer - Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks / Midjourney UserMax Penk - Creative Director of David+MartinRoman Lipski - Pioneer in the field of quantum art

Event brought to you by: Osmosis and Thoughtworks Berlin.

Hosted by the Microscope Gallery in Manhattan, and curated by Maya Georgieva and Sven Travis⁠, ‘Quantum | Art, Creative Expressions of the Infamously Counter-Intuitive’ showcases art across a diverse set of mediums, created by established artists working with quantum technology, creatives from IBM Quantum and Parsons School of Design - The New School. Each work of art explores quantum computing through a creative lens, demonstrating both the beauty of quantum mechanics and the messiness of quantum noise.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 22-30 March with various programs throughout its duration.

The Experimental Lecture Series took place as part of the exhibition This Permanent Other Landscape at the Julia Stoschek Foundation curated by Laura López Paniagua.

Co-organised by Laura López Paniagua and Studio Director Elizabeth Legate

LIST OF SPEAKERS

Dr. Laura López Paniagua (Chair. Curator and academic) – This Permanent Other Landscape – Challenges of the Emerging Digital-Physical Statu Quo in Art, Science and Society.

Roman Lipski (Artist) – Working with Quantum Blur, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence.

Quantum Blur Team (IBM Research Europe - Zurich). Dr. Walter Riess – The Start of the Journey, Dr. James Wootton and Marcel Pfaffhauser – From Quantum Games to Quantum Blur Art, Dr. Mira Wolf-Bauwens – Making the Invisible, Visible. Societal Implications of Technology.

Kimin Han (Composer) – Reduced listening: about what you are listening.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Benson (Department of Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – Reality in Quantum Physics.

Prof. Dr. Tim Schröder (Department of Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – Application of Quantum Entanglement (beyond Art).

Dr. Geoff Lehman (Art History, Bard College Berlin) – Immersive Landscape and the Paradoxes of Embodiment.

Anne Schwanz (Co-Founder of OFFICE IMPART Gallery) – Bridging the Gap: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Contemporary Art.

Curated by Laura López Paniagua, the title of the show pays homage to science fiction legend Philip K. Dick, whose oeuvre often speculated on the nature of reality and its, according to him, multiple, overlapping worlds (or landscapes). In How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978), he refers to the existence of an unchanging, ancient landscape that underlies every other realm a human mind can inhabit. Could that permanent dimension be the event horizon of the current proliferation of electronic world-making?

The use of technologies like VR, AI, and especially, Quantum Blur (QB) in art is only at an early stage, and thus, in a phase of experimentation and discovery of their potentials, possible outcomes, and consequences. The artworks currently produced by Roman Lipski are instances of an ongoing exploration of these emerging landscapes - in a literal sense, as a landscape painter, and also metaphorically, treading on the new territories that these technologies bring about.

This solo retrospective at the Beisheim Center in Berlin presented a selection of Lipski’s work on loan from the private collection of Team Global. This very special show was made possible by the private collection. Held in the gutted concrete plan of the incredible 18th floor prior to its renovation, this was a unique presentation of a cross-section Roman Lipski’s painting.

During Berlin Science Week 2022 Studio Lipski opened its doors to the scientific ⁠community and general public as part of the official programme.

Roman Lipski spoke at the Heraeus Symposium and exhibited his work Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

During Berlin Art Week from 14th until 18th of September, Roman Lipski Studio will be open for visits with the artist and team by appointment.

We look forward to welcoming you!

‘Polish born, Berlin based painter Roman Lipski is a pioneer in the field of quantum art. His works are created using Quantum Blur, a technique for manipulating images with quantum operations. In 2016 he began exploring Artificial Muse, an algorithm-based digital entity that allows him to freely experiment with the expressive possibilities of painting. The software consists of various algorithms that learn how colour, composition, contrasts, and textures work in Lipski’s paintings. In the end, it spits out new works—painted in Lipski’s style, but not by the artist. Lipski’s technological experiments dissect the interplay between art and science in a way that promises new forms of creativity and inspiration, a tantalising prospect. Superpositions presents this new cycle of works as well as a wide-ranging cross section of work from the past 16 years’.

With big thanks to:Publisher: Distanz Verlag, Angelica and all the team. Birgitta and Studio Homburger who created the graphic design and Inga Liesenfeld who wrote the text.

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Description goes hereDuring the Swiss Economic Forum 2022, Roman Lipski was given the opportunity to join IBM’s quantum research leaders in conversation. They talked about the pioneers using quantum computers to search for solutions that are not possible with classical computers.

This technology opens up unimagined possibilities in many areas: In optimisation and simulation of problems in logistics, finance, energy, chemistry, medicine, material sciences and image making.

Roman Lipski contributed his artistic perspective and expertise in the field of Quantum Blur to the discourse.

In 2021, Roman Lipski moved into his new studio in Berlin Kreuzberg which allowed him to work in a totally new scale and further investigate the potential of Quantum Blur as a tool for his practice. In May 2022, he shared his latest work on the occasion of the Spring Opening in the studio.

In the spring of 2022, Munich was once again the hub of the international photonics industry when the world’s leading trade fair LASER World of PHOTONICS 2022 opened its doors. Additionally, with the premier of the World of QUANTUM, Messe München explored the most exciting field of the future in photonics: quantum technology and its potential applications in areas including computing and cryptography, sensing and imaging, communications, and medicine.

Roman Lipski exhibited a new Quantum Blur artwork resulting from his collaboration with IBM Research Europe and talked about his artistic practice and their research process within the field of Quantum Blur together with IBM Quantum scientist Marcel Pfaffhauser at the World of QUANTUM forum.