

“Can you tell us how this works?” asked Edward Sullivan, as he and Yvonne Benjamin, both of Shelton, Connecticut, approached Florian Carle, the official tour guide for this mini maze. As people walked, danced, and posed for selfies among them, the beacons lit up in blue, green, red, or white. On a foggy, Friday night recently, with old hip hop songs filling the air and hundreds of happy people taking in the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, a small quantum forest sprouted up on the New Haven Green.ĭozens of illuminated beacons, each one 6-feet tall, were spread out in rows, not far from the festival’s main stage.


An art installation developed at the Yale Quantum Institute, employing quantum error correction, debuted at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
