Visual Art, Slime & Advanced Technologies
Education
2015 | MA Art & Science, Central St. Martins, London (Distinction) |
2008 | PhD Theoretical Quantum Information Science, University of Leeds, UK |
2005 | MSci Physics with German, Imperial College London, UK (1st Class Honours) |
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2024 | Quantum Soup, HEK, Basel |
Heartbreak and Magic, Somerset House, London | |
2023 | Ent-er the Garden of Forking Paths, Gazelli Art House, London |
2022 | Ent-, LAS (Light Art Space), Berlin |
The Evolution of Ent-: QX, arebyte Gallery, London | |
remiQXing still, Fiumano Clase, London | |
CASCADE, Southbank Centre, London | |
slimeQore, Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
slimeQore (Italian translation), Roma Europa Festival, Rome | |
2021 | The Whole Earth Chanting, Sonar, CCCB, Barcelona |
The Whole Earth Chanting, Keroxen Festival, Santa Cruz de Tenerife | |
The Whole Earth Chanting, Emmanual Church Loughborough, with Radar, Loughborough University’s Contemporary Art Programme | |
Agency is the Ability to Act, Holden Gallery, Manchester/Online | |
2019 | Euro(re)vision, Goethe Institut, London |
2017 | Quantum Breathing, Non-Space Gallery, Aarhus (as part of the official programme of the EU Captial of Culture) |
Selected Group Shows and Screenings
2023 | Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems, NXT Museum, Amsterdam |
2023 | Energeia, Etopia, Zaragoza (commission) |
Wild Data, Serpentine Gallery (online) | |
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen | |
Art SG (with Gazelli Art House), Singapore | |
Xenospace, Epoch Gallery (online) | |
2022 | Microwave Festival, Hong Kong |
Ignota Books, Mimosa House, London | |
Every Kind of Wind: Calder and the 21st Century, Nahmad Contemporary, New York City | |
Quantum Hivemind, Serpentine Gallery (online) | |
Creative Machine, Goldsmith’s University, London | |
Public Screening, Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul | |
Full dome screening of Ent-, Deutsches Museum, Munich | |
Re:publica Festival, Berlin | |
The Baroness, Mimosa House, London | |
House of Mirrors, HMKV, Dortmund | |
Biomedia, ZKM, Karlsruhe | |
2021 | BIAS, Science Gallery, Dublin (commission) |
Ars Electronica, Linz (online) | |
Reflections in the Water, Feral File (online) | |
Virtual Wonders, Mutek Festival, Montreal (online) | |
Future U, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne | |
Mutek Festival, Barcelona & Buenos Aires (online) | |
Art AI, Leicester (public space presentation) | |
[SPACE], Art & Tech, London | |
2020 | Visionarias, Etopia Centre of Art & Technology, Zaragoza |
Amplify, Somerset House, London/Online | |
Realtime Constraints, arebyte Gallery, London/online | |
OUT OF TOUCH, LUX (with Herversions), London (online, commission) | |
2019 | Mether, Huddersfield (public space presentation) |
Top of the Bots, Tate Late, Tate Modern, London (performance) |
Kosmopolis Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona | |
Good Grief Gallery Late, Love Unrequited, Somerset House, London | |
Open Fest with Sky Arts, Barbican, London | |
2018 | Digital Design Weekend, V&A, London |
Edinburgh TV Festival with Sky Arts, Edinburgh | |
Cog X AI Festival, London | |
Sheffield Documentary Festival, Sheffield | |
FAKE, Sience Gallery, Dublin (commission) | |
humansbeingdigital, The Lowry, Manchester | |
2017 | Somerset House Studios showcase, Telefonica Fundacion, Lima (with the British Council) |
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz | |
Sonar+D, Barcelona (with Somerset House Studios and British Council) | |
Entangled: Quantum Computer Art, Royal College of Art (with V&A, Bristol University and Institute of Physics) | |
Humans Need Not Apply, Science Gallery, Dublin |
Selected Press
2022 | ‘Libby Heaney’s quantum-powered take on Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece’, Wallpaper* Magazine |
‘Multiple Matters: an interview with Libby Heaney’, Spike Art | |
Libby Heaney – interview: ‘The point of the work is to destabilize you’, Studio International | |
‘Quantenphysikerin verzaubert Boschs “Garten der Lueste”, Die Zeit (Germany) | |
‘Kunst mit dem Quantumcomputer: Der Himmel pulsiert’, Tages Spiegel (Germany) | |
‘The art of entanglements: from NFTs to Quantum Computing, Right Click Save | |
CASCADE, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 | |
2020 | ‘The Firewall Next Time: Belief, Power and AI’, Flash Art |
2018 | ‘Machine Dreams: Art and Artificial Intelligence’, Forbes |
2017 | ‘When Lady Chatterley joined Tinder’ BBC Radio 4 and BBC News online |
‘Top picks for the Women of Sonar+D’ Atlas of the Future | |
2016 | ‘Welcome to Yami-Ichi’, The Guardian |
Selected Talks and Workshops
2022 | Quantum Slimifications, with Arebyte Gallery, Nora N. Khan & Monica Bello, online |
Thinking Quantum, with Light Art Space, Anna Pappa, Amira Gad, Ariane Koek, online | |
2021 | Future Music Genres, AI & Music Festival, S+T+ARTS & Sonar Festival, CCCB, Barcelona |
Entangled: Quantum Computing & Art, Keynote, INF 21: Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, Germany | |
Subverting the Dataset, Present Futures Digital, CCA Glasgow with Feral Art Projects | |
Entanglements; Quantum Computing & Art, Berlin Science Week | |
2019 | Noisy Chatterbots, AI & Storytelling, People’s History Museum with The Space, Manchester |
Artificial Identities workshop, Birmingham Open Media (BOM), Birmingham | |
Diffracting Bubbles, Mutek, Montreal | |
Quantum Computing & Art, Sonar+D, Barcelona | |
Machine Learning Matters, Inter-, Somerset House Studios, London | |
Sexist Racist In = Sexist Racist Out, D&AD Festival with WOW, London | |
Amor Android, Kosmopolis Festival, CCCB, Barcelona | |
2018 | Noisy Chatterbots workshop, Art + Tech Summit, Birmingham Open Media (BOM), Birmingham |
Quantum Britishness: Intra-active algorithms, Goethe Institut London, London | |
2017 | Quantum Computing & Art, Concytec, Lima |
Quantum VR Matters, London Design Festival with Space 10 and Ma-tt-er, London | |
Art, Science & Quantum Computing, V&A, London | |
2014 | Exploring the New Aesthetic, in conversation with James Bridle, Royal College of Art, London |
Magnetism & Blackholes, Tate Modern, London |
Selected Academic Papers
2019 | Quantum Computing and Complexity in Art, Leonardo Journal, 52 (3): 230–235 |
2015 | Dissipation-enhanced vibrational sensing in an olfactory molecular switch, A. Checinska, F. A. Pollock, L. Heaney, A. Nazir Journal of Chemical Physics, 142, 025102 |
2014 | New Spin Squeezing and Other Entanglement Tests for Two Mode Systems of Identical Bosons, B. Dalton. L. Heaney, J. Goold, B. Garraway, T. Busch New Journal of Physics, 16, 013026 |
2013 | Extracting quantum work statistics and fluctuation theorems by single-qubit interferometry, R. Dorner, S. Clark, L. Heaney, R. Fazio, J. Goold, V. Vedral Physical Review Letters, 110 (23), 230601 |
2012 | Equilibrium and Disorder-induced behavior in Quantum Light-Matter Systems, E. Mascarenhas, L. Heaney, M. C. O. Aguiar, M. F. Santos New Journal of Physics, 14, 043033 |
Quantum coherent contributions in biological electron transfer, R. Dorner, J. Goold, L. Heaney, T. Farrow, V. Vedral Physical Review E, 86 (3), 031922 | |
2011 | Extreme nonlocality with one photon, L. Heaney, A. Cabello, M. F. Santos, V. Vedral New Journal of Physics, 13, 053054 |
2010 | Teleportation of a quantum state of a spatial mode with a single massive particle, L. Heaney Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6519, 175 |
Bell inequality for pairs of particle-number-superselection-rule restricted states, L. Heaney, S.-W. Lee, D. Jaksch Phys. Rev. A, 82, 042116 Violation of multipartite Bell inequalities with classical subsystems via operationally local transformations, M. S. Williamson, L. Heaney, W. Son Phys. Rev. A 82, 032105 | |
2009 | Natural mode entanglement as a resource for quantum communication, L. Heaney and V. Vedral, Physical Review Letters, 103 200502 |
For my full list & more details see my Google Scholar page.
Selected Academic Positions
2014-2019 | Research Tutor, Information Experience Design programme, Royal College of Art, London |
2011-2013 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore |
2009-2011 | EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Oxford |
2009-2011 | Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore |
2009-2009 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore |
Selected Residencies
2017-present | Somerset House Studios resident, London |
2020 | British Council Amplify residency at Somerset House, Mutek Montreal and Mutek Buenos Aires |
2020 | Deep Play, Art+Tech residency, [ SPACE ], London |
2019 | Risk Related, Radar Residency, Loughborough University, Loughborough |
Awards
2022 | Lumen Prize, London |
Winner in Art & Science Category of Falling Wall Prize, Berlin | |
Mozilla Foundation Creative Media Award, USA | |
S+T+ARTS prize, Nomination | |
2021 | Adaptation Award, Artquest, London |
British Council Amplify Collaboration Award | |
2020 | Arts Council England Project Grant (Figures in Limbo) |
2019 | Arts Council England Project Grant (The Whole Earth Chanting) |
Arts Council England Project Grant (Top of the Bots) | |
2018 | Arts Council England Project Grant (Britbot) |
Lumen Prize (long-list) | |
HeK Basel, Net-based art award (short-list) | |
2017 | Sky Arts, Art 50 Commission |
2016 | Institute of Physics Public Engagement Grant (in collaboration with University of Bristol and V&A) |
2014 | Ideas Tap Innovators Award |
2009 | EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship at University of Oxford (£250k to lead my own research in quantum physics) |
2008 | Institute of Physics and HSBC, Very early career woman physicist of the year |