Libby Heaney is widely considered a pioneer of quantum computing and art. She weaves advanced technologies, like quantum computing, machine learning and game engines, with traditional art forms like sculptures and paintings.
Across all media, quantum physics – a non-binary theory of microscopic reality – guides her process. She draws upon it’s inherent fluidity and instabilities – often symbolized through slime – to reimagine her interior world and how it entangles with the seemingly binary systems we live within. Embodiment and emotionality are central.
Overall, the queer, blurry, hybrid qualities of quantum physics subvert our fixed and rigid Newtonian capitalist systems, reimagining a cosmos where nature and the self are entangled, while transcending binary concepts like life and death.
