Eat My Multiverse, Museum of Moving Image, New York City, 11th April 2025

 

Heaney will perform Eat My Multiverse at the Museum of Moving Image, New York City at 7pm on the 11 April 2025.

 

Eat My Multiverse interrogates how quantum computing’s potential is reduced to commodified, consumable forms driven by capitalist greed. Artist Libby Heaney deploys a live virtual environment to challenge sanitized narratives that obscure the magical and queer aspects of quantum phenomena. The piece is drawn from Heaney’s own memories and associated emotions, exploring quantum as a metaphor for self. For MoMI’s monumental Redstone Theater screen, Heaney has used IBM’s quantum computers to create a real-time multiverse that she will also enter as she performs through her webcam feed. The performance invites a reconsideration of the concessions raised among the fundamental poetics of science, human existence, and market forces.

Interviewed by Frieze Magazine

 

 

Heaney was interviewed by Emily May for Frieze Magazine for “Will Quantum Computing Change Art?”

‘Every time something happens, the universe branches into two,’ explains Heaney. ‘There’s an almost infinite number of universes where everything that could happen, happens.’ She herself created Heartbreak and Magic in 2024, a VR experience at Somerset House shaped by the comfort she took in quantum physics after the tragic death of her sister. ‘Science says that she should still exist in some parallel universe,’ Heaney says.

Watch Gwangju Biennale Talk on Guggenheim Website

Watch Heaney’s talk at the 15th Gwangju Biennale Symposium on the Guggenheim Museum website.

“Echoes of Tomorrow: Soundscapes in the Age of Advanced Computing

This event focuses on the intersection of sound and technology—specifically, the role of advanced technologies in transforming sound beyond traditional acoustic or digital recordings. The shift from recording technologies to recursive technologies is an epistemic shift, both in matter and meaning, in content and intent.

As we approach the era of quantum computing, it is timely to reconsider our relationship with sound—both technologically and sonically. While most of the discussions focus on sound within the realm of classical computation and Newtonian physics, topics will also introduce perspectives from quantum mechanics, where these familiar laws no longer apply and sound becomes a different physical phenomena.”