Libby Heaney (Talk | Remote)
she/her
Sat June 1 | de Brakke Grond
Dr. Libby Heaney is widely known as the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Through the ambivalent mechanisms and logic of quantum, Heaney creates new non-linear modes of affective storytelling, blurring fact and fiction and embracing both narrative and intuitive visceral embodied experiences. Heaney’s practice explores inherently queer, non-local, and hybrid concepts from quantum science to disrupt binary categories and hierarchies and foster radical interconnectedness. Her works combine diverse mediums such as performance, moving images, glass, and watercolour with cutting-edge technologies including machine learning, game engines, and quantum computing, entangling interior landscapes with the impact of the exterior realm.
About the artist
Dr. Libby Heaney is an award-winning visual artist with a research background in Quantum Information Science. She obtained a PhD from the University of Leeds. As a scientist, Heaney has worked at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore, and she has published in top peer-reviewed journals. She was the recipient of the HSBC and Institute of Physics, Very Early Career Woman in Physics award. In 2015, Heaney graduated from Central St. Martins, London with a focus on AI and kinetic sculpture.
Since then, Heaney has exhibited at major institutions, museums, and festivals such as Ars Electronica, Tate Modern, V&A Museum, HEK Basel, Sonar Festival, and LAS Art Foundation.
This artist is part of the panel “Quantum Bodies”
Date: Saturday, 1 June 2024
Time: 15:15 - 16:15
Location: de Brakke Grond
