Quantum & Queerness
In conversation with Dr Libby Heaney and Joseph Constable

Join visual artist and quantum physicist Dr Libby Heaney and curator Joseph Constable to hear them speak about Ooze Machines, Libby’s current exhibition in the Main Gallery. They will be exploring themes such as the fluidity of the microscopic quantum world and the non-binary, entangled futures that quantum technologies could bring.

This discussion is part of the Ooze Machines exhibition programme, more info here.

Visit Ooze Machines in the Main Gallery from 4 May – 30 June.

About Libby Heaney 
Dr Libby Heaney is an award-winning visual artist with a PhD & professional research background in Quantum Information Science. She is widely known as the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium.

About Joseph Constable
Joseph Constable is a curator, writer, and producer, currently Head of Exhibitions at the De La Warr Pavilion, where he has curated exhibitions of artists including Hélio Oiticica (2023), Mohammed Sami (2023), Zineb Sedira (2022) and Minoru Nomata (2022).

Reading List

José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The then and there of queer futurity
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place
Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Karen Barad, On Touching – the Inhuman That Therefore I am
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Freya Jarman, Queer Voices: Technologies, Vocalities, and the Musical Flaw

Tuesday 4 June
Doors 6pm
Event 6.30pm – 8pm
This event is free but booking is required. Click here to book

Photographs
(1) slimeQrawl
(2) Libby Heaney, credit Andrea Rossetti