Recognised as the world's first NFT by an artist using quantum computing, Venuses (quantum bodies watched by Open Pose algorithm) uses quantum data as a material basis for pluralizing and entangling human bodies in a series of venus poses, some taken from Western art history and others re-performed by the artist. The presence of art historical references and reenactments highlight how our bodies are shaped by culture as we re-perform the poses we have been culturally exposed to. The initial stills in each animation emphasize prejudicial biases in the way bodies are seen in fields of both AI and art history. The subsequent frames in the animations were then generated by manipulating the initial stills with Heaney's self-written quantum code, which, through entangled pixels, fragments and inverts the image in a way which would not be possible without quantum computing. As each animation progresses, we see the body from alternative, multiple perspectives—boundary-less and form-less, disrupting biased conceptions of the female nude.
Link to the NFT:
https://feralfile.com/artworks/venuses-quantum-bodies-watched-by-open-pose-algorithm-nwn?fromExhibition=reflections-in-the-water-9ov

Libby Heaney is an award winning artist and quantum physicist, who has held solo exhibitions at venues including arebyte Gallery London and Light Art Space Berlin named by Weltkunst as one of the best exhibitions of March 2022 alongside Louise Bourgeois and Jenny Holzer.

Heaney is considered to be the first artist to use quantum computing as a functioning artist medium and her notable quantum artwork Ent- has won the Lumen Prize and the Falling Walls Art-Science Prize, 2022. Other solo and group exhibitions and performances in 2022 include Calder and the 21st Century, Nahmad Contemporary, NYC; a month long public screening, Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul; Biomedia, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Quantum Hivemind, Serpentine, London; and CASCADE, Southbank Centre, London. Heaney was awarded the 2022 Mozilla Foundation Creative Media Award, has been the recipient of numerous Arts Council England grants and is in major private collections including Zabludowicz Collection, London. She is currently a resident artist of Somerset House Studios, London.

Before retraining as an artist at Central St. Martins, London, Heaney completed a PhD in Quantum Information Science at the University of Leeds and led her own research at the University of Oxford, publishing around 20 papers on the topic of quantum entanglement. She won the HSBC and Institute of Physics, UK, Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the year in 2008.