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Bat hand blob wing (quantum hybrid), 2022

C-type print of scanned watercolour painting manipulated by bespoke quantum computer code on clear acrylic with gold aluminium frame and ERC-721 token

38 x 38 cm

About the Artwork
This partially transparent print is a quantum manipulation of Heaney's watercolour of a hybrid body, which itself was composed using a surrealist collage method guided by quantum randomness. Heaney uses her self-written quantum computing code to remix a scan of the original painting so that it appears layered and blurry. The resulting image  prompts the individual to understand new forms of life through advanced technologies, nonlinear temporalities and deep entanglements, as something that is in the never-ending process of unfolding and becoming.
About Libby Heaney

Dr. Libby Heaney is an award winning artist with a professional background in Quantum Science. She is the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Heaney’s practice explores quantum concepts and temporalities, combining diverse media such as moving image, glass and watercolour with cutting-edge technologies. In doing so she seeks to entangle interior landscapes with the impact of the exterior realm, asking big philosophical questions while remaining intimate, human and embodied. Recent solo exhibitions include Quantum Soup, HEK, Basel (2024); Heartbreak and Magic, Somerset House, London (2024) and Ent-, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin (2022). Her first artistic monograph was recently published by Hatje Cantz. Heaney’s project Ent- won the Lumen Prize and the Falling Walls Art-Science Prize (both 2022) and she was awarded the 2022 Mozilla Foundation Creative Media Award. Heaney has been the recipient of numerous Arts Council England grants, completed a residency at Somerset House Studios, London, and is in major private collections including Zabludowicz Collection and 0xCollection. Heaney holds a PhD in Quantum Information Science and worked as a post-doctoral researcher in quantum science at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore. She also holds a MA in Art and Science from Central St. Martins, London.

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Bat hand blob wing (quantum hybrid)
Bat hand blob wing (quantum hybrid)