In this fascinating talk, we explore the unexpected connections between neuroscience, quantum computing, and visual art through a unique interdisciplinary collaboration at Yale University.

This talk features a panel discussion following the screening of a documentary about Italian visual artist Serena Campini, who served as an artist-in-residence at the Yale Quantum Institute. Through her residency, Campini created stunning multilayered artworks inspired by both neurological imaging and quantum states of light.

Our guests include:
Serena Campini, visual artist and art historian who has spent over a decade collaborating with neuroscientists and quantum researchers
Michael Higley, neuroscientist at Yale Medical School whose lab studies synapses and memory formation
Harshvardhan “Harsh” Babla, a PhD student researching quantum error correction and extending quantum memory
Donna Fetis, gerontologist and educator specializing in aging, caregiving, and dementia
Florian Carle, representing the Yale Quantum Institute

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Join us for an illuminating conversation about the transformative power of theater as a form of resistance and social change. In this compelling Ideas Talk, three distinguished theater artists explore how live performance challenges conventions, creates community, and gives voice to marginalized stories.

Featured Speakers:
Dexter Singleton - Executive Artistic Director and Founder of Collective Consciousness Theater, Senior Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development at Theater Squared
Martyna Majok - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, librettist, and screenwriter (Yale School of Drama alumna)
Godfrey Simmons - Artistic Director of Heartbeat Ensemble, actor, director, playwright, and Trinity College faculty member

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok delivers a stirring keynote weaving together Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and her own immigrant story to explore how art serves as resistance against cultural devastation and loneliness.

Drawing from her current Broadway adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, Majok examines Guy Montag's journey from book-burner to truth-seeker as a mirror for our own times of censorship, distraction, and disconnection. She reflects on the "loneliness epidemic" plaguing America and how meaningful art—like the books Montag risks everything to save—offers "quality" and "pores" that reveal life's complexity rather than the "wax moon faces" of comfortable conformity.

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