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
| 2023 | 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 Fiewall Next Time: Belief, Power and AI’, Flash Art 2018 ‘Machine Dreams: Art and Artificial Intelligence’, Forbes
‘When Lady Chatterley joined Tinder’ BBC Radio 4 and BBC News online 2017 ‘Top picks for the Women of Sonar+D’ Atlas of the Future
2016
‘Welcome to Yami-Ichi’, The Guardian
SELECTED TALKS & 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 Art & Science: Entanglements, Imperial College London, London
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 2008-2009 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 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 |