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ArtScience Encounters with Libby Heaney: Qlimate Tongues
From 20 Jun 2025
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ArtScience Encounters with Libby Heaney: Qlimate Tongues
Qlimate Tongues is a multi-channel sound installation that explores the climate, its entanglements and the impact of quantum technologies. In the work, we hear hybrid human and non-human voices that are generated by artificial intelligence and hypnotic sounds that are generated by quantum computing, inviting contemplation on how advance technologies shape and entangle with life on earth.
Libby Heaney trained an AI on her self-recorded data set of human and non-human voices, spanning different types of human chanting, rumblings of inanimate equipment in quantum computing laboratories, bird songs and the sounds of flowing water. Heaney then composed the work using self-written quantum computing sound tools.
As we move between the speakers, the voices and sounds become loud and then fall quiet following strange quantum patterns, suggestive of unseen connections and complex relations between all things. Qlimate Tongues highlights the non-binary nature of quantum computing and the non-linear temporalities of quantum entanglement, offering new ways to understand and perceive the environment from different perspectives simultaneously.
Qlimate Tongues is presented in prelude to In the Ether— an annual festival at ArtScience Museum celebrating the convergence of art, science and future-forward technologies—in conjunction with the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
Image credit: Courtesy of UnfoldX and the artist
About ArtScience Encounters
Presented in collaboration with artists and creatives, ArtScience Encounters is an invitation to discover curious spaces hidden within ArtScience Museum’s unique architecture. Spaces are refreshed periodically with compelling artworks, intriguing happenings and sensorial experiences spanning various genres and mediums.
Daily: 10am – 7pm
Fri & Sat: 7pm – 9pm
About the Artist
Libby Heaney is an 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.See more
Heaney’s practice explores the inherently non-binary and hybrid concepts and non-linear temporalities of quantum physics. She combines diverse media such as virtual reality, video games, moving image, watercolour, glass and most recently public sculpture with cutting-edge technologies like AI and quantum computing. Together, these create a dream-like aesthetic, asking big philosophical questions about existence and the nature of reality, while remaining very human, intimate and embodied.
Spanning the organic, the mechanical and the human, Heaney’s practice continuously seeks to expand the possibilities of the individual and the collective through the irrational magic of quantum, while critically investigating capitalist uses of technology.
As a pioneer in the field of quantum and art, Heaney is frequently called to deliver keynotes and speak on panels around the world such as the Gwangju Biennale Symposium, London Sculpture Week and Sonar+D, Barcelona.
Heaney’s solo exhibitions include Quantum Soup at HEK, Basel; Heartbreak & Magic at Somerset House, London and Ent- at LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, among others. In 2025 she will hold a solo show at Orlean House Gallery, London which will include works by J. M. W. Turner as part of Turner 250 and the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
Image credit: Courtesy of Andrea Rossetti and the artist
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