Eat My Multiverse: A Performance by Libby Heaney

​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 realtime multiverse that she will also enter as she performs through her webcam feed. The performance invites a reconsideration of the concessions raised between the fundamental poetics of science, human existence and market forces.

​The performance will be followed by a discussion.

​Dr. Libby Heaney is a working-class, award-winning artist with a PhD and professional background in quantum science. She is the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Heaney holds an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London, a PhD in Quantum Information Science from the University of Leeds. She graduated from Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London in 2015. Solo exhibitions include Quantum Soup, HEK, Basel; Heartbreak & Magic, Somerset House, London and Ent-, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, among others. Learn more at libbyheaney.co.uk.

This event is part of Reframe: Experimental Technology and the Moving Image, Supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.