“The root reason why I am an artist is the same as it would be for being a scientist: finding out what there is out in the world and how I can contribute to our understanding of it. I am interested in making science sense-able – through the body and its senses…”
So says Julius von Bismarck, winner of the first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Digital Arts prize and CERN’s first artist in residence under its new cultural policy for engaging with the arts, Great Arts for Great Science.
The 28 year old German artist is in residence now at CERN for two months, followed by a production residency to develop his ideas with the transdiscipinary Futurelab team, Ars Electronica, Linz. Follow and comment on Julius's creative process and interactions with his science inspiration partner Dr James Wells and his Futurelab mentor, Horst Hoertner, on the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN blog.
Collide@CERN is the laboratory’s artists residency scheme. Click here for further details.
Arts@CERN is involved in many collaborations and outstanding cultural partnerships. See our gallery for examples.
CERN has appointed its first Honorary Cultural Advisory Board for the Arts to advise on arts engagement – comprising Beatrix Ruf, Director of Kunsthalle Zurich; Serge Dorny, Director-General of Lyon Opera House; Frank Madlener, Director of IRCAM, Paris; Christoph Bollman, Director of Art for Geneva, and Dr. Michael Doser, CERN scientist. They meet three times per year to evaluate projects which wish to work with CERN and apply for external funding to do so. See Contact for further details.
Particle physics and the arts are inextricably linked: both are ways to explore our existence – what it is to be human and our place in the universe. The two fields are natural creative partners for innovation in the 21st century.
