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.”

Slime Socks in Forbes

 

Forbes journalist Lee Sharrock featured Heaney’s slime socks as part of 13 creative ways to bring art into your life.

“Artist Libby Heaney hit the headlines during Frieze London this autumn with an unmissable sculptural installation ‘Ent- (non-earthly delights)’ in the Frieze Sculpture park. It’s possible to wear a piece of Heaney’s art in the form of her ‘slime socks’.”

“Award winning artist Dr Libby Heaney has a PhD in Quantum Information Science and is known as the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Libby Heaney’s 2024 sculptural installation ‘Ent- (non-earthly delights)’ was exhibited in London’s Regent’s Park during Frieze this year as part of the sculpture park, and featured an augmented reality (AR) experience which highlights the transformative potential of our forthcoming quantum future.”

“Slime is a reoccurring motif in Heaney’s work, characterizing the unstable nature of all things and the self and symbolising potentiality and transformation. Heaney’s Slime Socks are an arty alternative for festive stockings this year and there is also a Slime-themed silk scarf and baseball cap.”

Solo Exhibition with Berlin’s Light Art Space

Libby Heaney’s solo exhibition Ent- opens on the 10th Feb at Schering Stiftung, Berlin. Commissioned by Light Art Space, it is a 360-degree immersive installation taking quantum computing as both medium and subject matter. The exhibition will run until the 1st May.

Find out more information here.

A component part of Ent- will also be shown at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, as part of BioMedia: The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior from 19 December 2021 – 28 August 2022. Ent- will travel in its entirety to arebyte Gallery, London in May 2022.

“Committed to new ways of presenting art, LAS commissions experimental projects, both physical and digital, in unconventional spaces. LAS is dedicated to future thinking and light is the foundation’s guiding principle – a symbol of imagination, discovery and innovation.”

“The Schering Stiftung promotes the life sciences, the contemporary arts, as well as scientific and cultural education. A key focus of the Foundation’s activities is on projects at the interface of science and art. This includes exhibitions and dialogue formats that bring together scientists, artists, and the general public.”

BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

Libby Heaney and musician Nabihah Iqbal appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s hour to speak about their audio-visual collaboration CASCADE which was performed at the Southbank Centre on 29th and 30th January.

You can listen here at around the 35 minute mark.

“Woman’s Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC. It has been on air since 1946.“

“Southbank Centre is the largest arts centre in the UK and one of the nation’s top visitor attractions. They seek out the world’s most exciting artists, from household names to fresh new talent, and give them space to showcase their best work.”

CASCADE at Southbank Centre

Heaney and Iqbal will perform the next iteration of their immersive AI music and visual performances at the Southbank Centre on the 28th and 29th January 2022. More information and ticket booking can be found here.

This collaborative project is part of Southbank Centre’s Purcell Sessions.

Through field recordings of the Thames, AI-generated sounds and visuals, as well as music and words, Iqbal and Heaney plunge you into an immersive world of real and artificial water-scapes.

In Cascade the Thames serves as a focal point for the pair, pushing them to explore the materiality, history, rituals and symbolism attached to rivers and water.

This project follows on from their previous collaboration, The Whole Earth Chanting, which explored the transcendental nature of human and non-human voice through field recordings, AI-generated sound and meditative composition.

 

Southbank Centre is the largest arts centre in the UK and one of the nation’s top five visitor attractions. They seek out the world’s most exciting artists, from household names to fresh new talent, and give them space to showcase their best work.