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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The CMS detector
art@CMS is an education and outreach programme of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Since 2012, art@CMS has been a springboard for engagement with scientific research in physics in an exciting and inspiring way, through the development of creative and participatory experiences for the public, especially aimed at young people. By working on both global and local scales, art@CMS is a dynamic international network of collaborations involving researchers, artists, students and educators. The projects undertaken through art@CMS demonstrate not only the beauty of science but also its direct relevance to the values, needs and expectations of the 21st century learners. In this brochure you can find information about the types of projects and collaborations implemented from 2012 to 2015 including science & art workshops for school and university students, and exhibitions for the public. Through these activities art@CMS has so far helped more than 100,000 people in 12 countries to gain a better understanding of how science works and how the public can engage with it. We hope that the information provided in this brochure will also help you get involved!
Image credits Michael Hoch & Maximilien Brice Š 2008 CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration
ACTIVITIES MAP 2012-2015 (As of 15 July 2015)
art@CMS exhibitions are the outcome of collaboration between artists, art institutes, scientists and CMS institutes and act as catalysts for promoting public interest in and understanding of science.
33
exhibitions
20 cities
12 103k
countries
visitors
Countries Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Rwanda, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
Interdisciplinary in their nature, science & art workshops enable young people to gain a better understanding of science, to be inspired and encouraged, and to develop skills that are critical to the challenges of the 21st century.
10
workshops
6
cities
6
countries
320 students
Countries Austria, France, Rwanda, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES 2012-2015 (As of 15 July 2015)
Type
Dates
Event Title
Venue
City
Country
Public
7-15 Jul 2012 10-14 Dec 2012 11-15 Feb 2013 11 Apr - 30 Jun 2013 5-7 Jun 2013 23-30 Sep 2013 27 Oct - 29 Nov 2013 8 Nov 2013 12 Nov 2013 - 31 Jan 2014 20 Nov 2013 17 Dec 2013 - 31 Jan 2014 20 Feb - 4 Apr 2014 31 Mar - 4 Apr 2014 4 Apr 2014 3 Feb - 24 May 2014 3 Mar - 24 May 2014 7-9 Apr 2014 10-12 Apr 2014 5 Jun 2014 24-25 May 2014 23-27 Jun 2014 2-9 July 2014 13-31 July 2014 29 Sep - 4 Oct 2014 10 Nov 2014 - 12 Jan 2015 15-21 Nov 2014 28 Nov 2014 - 9 Jan 2015 16 Dec 2014 - 8 Jan 2015 22 Jan - 2 Mar 2015 4 Feb - 22 Apr 2015 17-22 Mar 2015 17 Apr - 17 Jun 2015 2-31 May 2015 14-17 May 2015 23 Jun - 14 Jul 2015 26 Jun - 12 Jul 2015
Art of Science, Beauty in Creation Science Art by Michael Hoch 13th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation art@CMS presents Xavier Cortada & Michael Hoch High Energy Physics Meets Art Quantum & Open Days Unseen Dimensions: Dialogues in Art and Science Science Night The Fascination of the Origins US Higgs Discovery To See a World Nature, Science, Innovation Wiener Wunderkammer Science Night Labo IPAC Design and CMS Science@Art@School High Energy Physics Meets Art Science@Art@School Science, Technology, Art CERN 60 Neighborhood Days CMS Week ICHEP 2014 Art of Science, Beauty in Creation LHC Days in Split Kigali New Media Arts Biennale Sense of Universe Our Concern CERN 60th Anniversary Art of Science, Beauty in Creation art@CMS Athens Science Festival Instrumental Concept Matter: The Fundamental Particles Thessaloniki Science Festival Circulate 300 Years Karlsruhe
Austrian Academy of Sciences CERN Palais Ferstel CMS National History Museum CMS City of London School RWTH Aachen University Deutsches Museum Bonn The Capitol CMS Collegium Hungaricum Vienna University of Technology Austrian Academy of Sciences IPAC Design International School of Geneva National History Museum LycĂŠe Fragonard QualysmART CMS CMS Congress Palace St. Francis College Palazzo Milesi Green Hills Academy Earth & Man Museum Waterhouse Stables of the Academy Palace Welios Science Centre Fermilab Art Gallery Technopolis International School of Geneva ArtCenter/South Florida HELEXPO CMS Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Vienna Geneva Vienna Cessy Graz Cessy London Aachen Bonn Washington Cessy Vienna Vienna Vienna Geneva Geneva Graz L’Isle-Adam Vienna Cessy Cessy Valencia New York Split Kigali Sofia London Brussels Wels Batavia Athens Geneva Miami Beach Thessaloniki Cessy Karlsruhe
Austria Switzerland Austria France Austria France UK Germany Germany USA France Austria Austria Austria Switzerland Switzerland Austria France Austria France France Spain USA Croatia Rwanda Bulgaria UK Belgium Austria USA Greece Switzerland USA Greece France Germany
1,200 visitors 600 visitors 450 visitors 1,500 visitors 100 visitors / 60 students 7,000 visitors 1,500 visitors / 60 students 3,500 visitors 2,500 visitors 300 policy makers 2,500 visitors 1,600 visitors 1,200 visitors 3,200 visitors 18 students 18 students 55 students 18 students 330 visitors 4,500 visitors 750 visitors 1,200 visitors 1,000 visitors 2,000 visitors 500 visitors / 10 students 3,500 visitors 200 visitors / 8 students 2,000 visitors 2,000 visitors 15,000 visitors / 16 students 33,000 visitors 500 visitors / 20 students 800 visitors 6,000 visitors 1,500 visitors 1,200 visitors
ARTIST & SCIENTIST COLLABORATIONS
Year
Artist | Country
Scientist | Institute
Project Title | Medium
2012
Michael Hoch | Austria
Michael Hoch | CERN, Austria Academy of Sciences
Art of Science, Beauty in Creation | Photo Collage
2013
Xavier Cortada | USA
Pete Markowitz | Florida International University
In Search of the Higgs Boson | Digital Art
2013
Alison Gill | UK
Ian Shipsey | University of Oxford
To See a World | Sculpture
2014
Paco Falco | Italy
Pierluigi Paolucci | INFN Napoli
The Forms of the Infinite | Painting
2014
Chris Henschke | Australia
Wolfgang Adam | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Edge of the Observable | Audiovisual Art
2015
Lindsay Olson | USA
Don Linclon | Fermilab
No Fixed Point | Textile Art
2015
Brigitte Tessier | France
Hugues Louis Brun | UniversitĂŠ Libre de Bruxelles
Circulate! | Painting
2015
Yuki Shiraishi | Switzerland
John Ellis | CERN
Past Present Future Present | Sculpture
2015
Bree Corn | Austria
Sezen Sekmen | Kyungpook National University
Passionate About | Photography
2015
Andy Charalambous | UK
Austin Ball | CERN
Sculptures IV | Sculpture
2015
Con Sensus | UK
Sudan Paramesvaran | University of Bristol
Science Rap | Music
High Energy Physics Meets Art
The first in the series of art@CMS science and art workshops took place in Graz, Austria, with the participation of 62 students from two local high schools: GIBS and BORG. This three-day workshop was supported by CMS, the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (HEPHY), the National History Museum in Graz, the City of Graz, and the Pathway project. On the first day, HEPHY physicists delivered a Masterclass where students learned to visualize and analyze real LHC data from the CMS experiment. Then they were introduced to the interconnections of science and the arts, and learned how artists visualize science and technology. On the second day, four groups of students, assisted by art educators and scientists, created their own artworks inspired by particle physics. The students documented the whole workshop with photos, videos and a blog. On the last day, the artworks were displayed for public viewing at Graz’s National History Museum.
Unseen Dimensions
Dates 5-7 Jun 2013 Venue National History Museum City Graz Country Austria Visitors / Students 200 / 62
At the City of London School, an interdisciplinary programme brought artists, researchers and philosophers together with educators and students to discuss how art meets science. In Unseen Dimensions: Dialogues in Art and Science, creativity and discovery were explored through a series of talks, workshops and an exhibition. "Unseen Dimensions is a collaborative process grounded in the idea that imagination and creativity are at the heart of learning and innovation," said art@CMS collaborating artist and educator Alison Gill, who also curated the exhibition at the school. The exhibition showcased works by six artists, including visual artist Heather Barnett, sculptors Annie Cattrell and Bill Woodrow, and mixed-media artist Melanie Jackson. Michael Hoch’s 8m x 3m banner of the CMS detector was mounted on the school’s wall overlooking the London skyline. Its position on the banks of the river Thames ensured that everyone got a grand view of the detector. "It was breathtaking for me," said Hoch.
Dates 27 Oct - 29 Nov 2013 Venue City of London School City London Country UK Visitors / Students 1,500 / 60
US Higgs Discovery
The search for the Higgs at the LHC experiments has been a joint international effort involving thousands of researchers. Nearly 2,000 physicists and engineers from US institutions played a significant role throughout. Currently, about one-third of all members of CMS come from American institutes. The US also contributed $167 million to the construction of the CMS detector. The remarkable discovery of the Higgs boson was celebrated in a special reception in the Capitol Hill. The event was organized by the American Physical Society to apprise Congress of the important role of the US particle physics community, particularly in the discovery of the Higgs boson by the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC. Members of Congress had the opportunity to look at artworks by Michael Hoch and Xavier Cortada that were on display during the event. All members were also presented with a signed copy of one of the five banners that Cortada created to celebrate the discovery of the Higgs boson.
ICHEP 2014
Dates 20 Nov 2013 Venue The Capitol City Washington Country USA Policy Makers 300
The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is the most important conference of particle physics, where exciting results from all experiments in the field are discussed, and the views among all experiment and theory experts of the world are exchanged.
Dates 2-9 Jul 2014
During the 37th edition of ICHEP, the particle physics community had the opportunity for a first-hand look at works by five art@CMS artists. The exhibition also presented works by students of the International School of Geneva. The students followed a workshop that was implemented at CERN and their school in the previous academic year. Finally, Michael Hoch showcased how art can extend the impact of science education and outreach to society.
City Valencia
“The art@CMS exhibition added complexity to the conference in the best sense as good wine does. The artworks undoubtedly contributed to reflect on our ideas from a different perspective,� said Professor Juan Fuster, Chair of the Organizing Committee.
Venue Congress Palace
Country Spain Visitors 1,200
The Fascination of the Origins
Fermilab
An offshoot of the world-famous Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Deutsches Museum Bonn displays around 100 contemporary masterpieces of science and technology. These exhibits represent significant scientific and technical developments of the past seven decades.
Dates 12 Nov 2013 - 31 Jan 2014
The Fascination of the Origins exhibition, inaugurated together with the Wolfgang Paul exhibition, is a series of large-scale photo collages and installations by Austrian physicist and artist Michael Hoch who is also the founder of art@CMS. Inspired by the intrinsic measurement geometry, the colours and design of the CMS detector, Hoch’s work aims to communicate the beauty of science and to initiate a dialogue between nature, knowledge and art.
City Bonn
One of Hoch’s works, a large-scale photograph depicting in fascinating detail the CMS detector, is now part of the museum’s permanent collection of exhibits.
Venue Deutsches Museum Bonn
Country Germany Visitors 2,500
Fermilab is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research. With about 1,000 US scientists contributing to CMS, Fermilab hosted a large art@CMS exhibition to celebrate one of the world’s largest science experiments. The works of eight international artists, including Lindsay Olson, Fermilab’s first artist-in-residence, ranged from painting and sculpture to collage and digital art. The art@CMS event also included a series of workshops for high-school students, called Imagining Physics. The workshops were held in Water Street Studios in Batavia. Over five sessions, the students toured the lab, learned about particle physics, and made their own art inspired by what they had seen. “Having the art@CMS pieces here at Fermilab is outstanding. But having the chance to connect the art and science of the CMS experiment with students outside the laboratory makes this event a true example of our mission,” said Georgia Schwender, curator of the Fermilab Art Gallery.
Dates 4 Feb - 22 Apr 2015 Venue Fermilab Art Gallery City Batavia Country USA Visitors / Students 15,000 / 16
Athens Science Festival
The Athens Science Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Greece. It offers the public and especially young people the opportunity to discover science, technology and innovation, and their role in everyday life. The 2015 edition attracted 33,000 visitors including more than 5,000 school students. Hosted in the Industrial Gas Museum of Technopolis, the art@CMS exhibition presented the works of five international artists using different media as a way to address the three big questions that drive scientific research at CMS and CERN: Where do we come from? What are we made of? Where are we going? Past Present Future Present, a short film about the dialogue between the famous British theoretical physicist John Ellis and the Swiss artist Yuki Shiraishi was also screened. During walk-and-talk exhibition tours, the visitors also met with CMS and CERN scientists and got introduced to the fascinating world of particle physics.
Matter: The Fundamental Particles
Dates 17-22 Mar 2015 Venue Technopolis City Athens Country Greece Visitors 33,000
Established in 1984, ArtCenter/South Florida strives to be a leader in the South Florida contemporary cultural scene as a creative learning center to better serve the community and the artists’ needs. Each year, 100,000 people visit the ArtCenter. For the Matter: The Fundamental Particles exhibition, works were selected from eight artist and scientist collaborations. Using different media, all works were inspired by CMS, focusing on the distinct yet complementary aspects of this global scientific effort, such as the physics, the engineering and the human factor. For example, in his Higgs Boson photo collages, Miami-based artist and ArtCenter alumnus Xavier Cortada pays a tribute to the 4,000 members of CMS. A conversation between Cortada and his collaborator Pete Markowitz, professor of physics at Florida International University, also took place in the ArtCenter to discuss the common ground between art and science based on their work with art@CMS.
Dates 2-31 May 2015 Venue ArtCenter/South Florida City Miami Beach, Florida Country USA Visitors 800
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS
The art@CMS programme would not have been possible without the tremendous effort of thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians who conceived, designed and constructed the CMS detector. The fact that this marvel of engineering and technology has been a source of inspiration for artists, students, educators and the public is a tribute to all and each one of them.
CMS INSTITUTES
Faces of CMS
SCHOOLS & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES
MUSEUMS, GALLERIES & SCIENCE CENTRES
Michael Hoch Faces of CMS, 2011 Digital print 8m x 3m AGENCIES, TRUSTS & NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
cern.ch/artcms art-cms@cern.ch