MITH Digital Dialogues - Andrew Smith’s Entangled Verses: Quantum Simulations and Computational Poetics

Join us on Thursday, April 3rd from 4pm - 5:30pm at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) to hear developer, designer, researcher Andrew Smith talk about the affordances of quantum computing as a method for creative writing. Drawing from the practice of utilizing Markov Chains in computational poetry, Smith’s research reimagines poetic structures through the lens of quantum mechanics, leveraging principles such as superposition, interference, and entanglement to produce dynamic, probabilistic language.

By translating poetic constraints into quantum logics, Smith’s research proposes new approaches to human-computer cowriting — ones that are nonlinear, entangled, and open to collapse. In doing so, it offers a provocation for the future of electronic literature, where language emerges not from deterministic rules but from the strange probabilities of quantum computation.

Looking forward to seeing you at MITH (0301 Hornbake Library) for this talk!