GroundState

Ground State is a gallery of artwork made from real quantum computers - not simulations, and not decoration. Every shape, colour, motion, and sound is measured hardware data, mapped through fixed rules. Nothing is random. Nothing is invented. THE STUDIES Each Study is a quantum computer performing a circuit - thousands of attempts at holding a fragile quantum state. The results hang in your room as a volume you can walk around and into: every stray outcome a brushstroke draped in space at its measured distance from the ideal, while the machine's own resonance chord plays. A slow turntable offers every face; pinch to move it, stretch to scale it. THE MACHINES Each Machine is a quantum processor at rest: its daily calibration snapshot raised as a vertical lattice, qubit by qubit. A healthy qubit holds still and cool; a decohering one trembles - at the actual rate its coherence decays. The machine's chord is broken into spatial voices positioned within the lattice itself, so walking along the sculpture moves you through the sound of the hardware's own imperfections. THE PERFORMANCES Any study can perform. Press Perform on its label and the piece clears to an empty vitrine, then paints itself back stroke by stroke over its own nine-minute soundtrack - each brushstroke tracing tip-to-tail at the pace its qubit's coherence decayed, each landing marked by a soft spatial chime from exactly where the paint touches. Pause it, walk. around inside the half-finished painting, resume. The finished work rests until you ask again. THE DATA The pieces are made from IBM Quantum processors - including ibm_fez, ibm_marrakesh, and ibm_miami (Nighthawk) - from their calibration telemetry (coherence times, readout errors, coupling fidelities) and from circuits genuinely executed on the hardware. The mappings are deterministic: the same measurement always paints the same picture and sounds the same chord. What varies is the machine, and the day. Each piece carries a museum label with its sitter, its date, and its numbers, in plain language. Made with RealityKit for Apple Vision Pro. No account, no network, no data collection - the gallery is entirely on device.