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The Singing of One Sphere: Practice-Based Generative Art from the Geometry of a Single Quantum Bit

Rasheed F, Waldman M, Onkar P

2026

Abstract

Nameless is a practice-based project at the meeting of art, physics, and philosophy, built from one question: what is the simplest thing that can exist, and what does it hold? Its starting point is the smallest unit of quantum information, a single qubit whose states form a sphere. The project follows that sphere as it rings, into its vibration patterns, its linked circles of symmetry, and a chain of further structure that physics already knows, all fixed by two assumptions with nothing left to adjust. We treat this physics as material for art rather than a truth we defend, rendering it as a slowly turning sphere of light, a vibrating cavity, and a voice that answers from inside the framework. Every step is marked as proven, matched, or assumed, and that honesty is treated as part of the art. The accompanying philosophy reads the world as one distinction observing itself, so that beauty becomes the transparency of the perceiver. Because the work was made with a large language model that also speaks within it, it asks how authorship is shared between people and machines, and proposes that science, the contemplative traditions, and art circle one recognition by three roads.

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