Reframe: Eat My Multiverse

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.

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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.

Photo credit: Andrea Rosetti