art@cms exhibition catalogue Napoli 15-20 September 2015 by art@CMS

Photo: Michael Hoch

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CASTEL DELL’ OVO | NAPLES 15-20 SEPTEMBER 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

ABOUT CMS

ABOUT art@CMS

ARTIST & SCIENTIST COLLABORATIONS Beam Collisions | Alessandro Catocci & Pierluigi Paolucci Sculptures IV | Andy Charalambous & Austin Ball In Search of the Higgs Boson | Xavier Cortada & Pete Markowitz Cool Mosaic Simulacrum | Maurizio Di Palo & Pierluigi Paolucci The Forms of the Infinite | Paco Falco & Pierluigi Paolucci To See a World | Alison Gill & Ian Shipsey Dynamics of the Apparatus | Chris Henschke & Wolfgang Adam Matter-Anti-Matter | Michael Hoch No Fixed Point | Lindsay Olson & Don Lincon Big Bang | Francesco Paolantoni & Pierluigi Paolucci

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VIDEOS Bike | Peter Bellamy Gotta Catch Em All | Rosa Nussbaum CMS in Action | Paul Schuster Love is the 5th Element | Anastasia Siderenko

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Sculpture

Photography

Audiovisual Art

Textile Art

Photo Collage

Painting

Digital Art

Mosaic Art

Videos

Artist

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

Science requires that we continually reassess our place in the cosmos. Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? Great art asks these same questions and when we experience it, it changes our perspective, just as science does. Given this commonality between art and science, it is especially appropriate and exciting when artists make science their subject.

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This is an era of unprecedented global scientific collaborations; a 27 km circumference machine that collides counter-rotating beams of protons at almost light speed; cameras that photograph the resulting collisions, such as CMS, the size of a six story office building containing sense elements that in some cases are the width of a human hair; and the seminal discovery of a Higgs boson that may explain why atoms and we exist. As never before, there is an opportunity for science and art to fuse; to speak of a reassessment of our place in the cosmos that has just occurred, to speak of the mysterious and to make it approachable. The art@CMS programme attempts exactly this.

Supported by

Ian Shipsey Experimental Particle Physicist University of Oxford

ABOUT CMS

ABOUT art@CMS 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 particle physics in an exciting and inspiring way, through the development of creative and participatory experiences for the public, especially aimed at young people.

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of the four experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC smashes groups of protons together at close to the speed of light: 40 million times per second and with seven times the energy of the most powerful accelerators built up to now. Many of these will just be glancing blows but some will be very energetic head on collisions. When this happens some of the collision energy is turned into mass and previously unobserved, short-lived particles which could give clues about how Nature behaves at a fundamental level. The CMS detector is designed to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in high-energy collisions in the LHC. Like a cylindrical onion, different layers of detectors measure the different particles, and use this key data to build up a picture of events at the heart of the collision. Scientists then use this data to search for new phenomena that will help to answer questions such as: what the Universe is made of, what forces act within it? And what gives everything substance? CMS also measures the properties of previously discovered particles with unprecedented precision, and is on the lookout for completely new, unpredicted phenomena. On 4 July 2012, the CMS and ATLAS experiments discovered evidence of the Higgs boson, proving how particles gain mass.

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. art@CMS organizes science & art workshops for school and university students, and exhibitions for the public. Through these activities, it 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.

On 3 June 2015 and after an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC started providing collisions to all its experiments at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV. Over the two-year shutdown, the CMS experiment went through an important programme of maintenance and upgrade to meet the new energy frontier set by the LHC. As CMS spokesperson Tiziano Camporesi said, “this marks the beginning of a new era of exploration of the secrets of nature”. 06

Born in Lecce in 1955 and by Neapolitan adoption since 1968, Alessandro Catocci is a freelance photographer who combines a passion for photography, music and travel. He started with analog photography and moved to the digital world only a few years ago. In 2012 he took part in group exhibitions, including the Vibes of Capo Miseno – Bacoli, the Funds of Baia and Intragallery, all shown in Naples. In September 2013 one of his pictures appeared in the cover of the CD Silenzio Cantatore by Fausto Cigliano and Gabriella Pascale Ensemble. In December 2013 he was invited by the Culture and Cultural Heritage of the Province of Naples to take part, together with Sonia Ritondale, in the photo exhibition Sottoilpalco that was housed in the Council Chamber of the Monumental Complex of Santa Maria La Nova in Naples. The same exhibition was then transferred to the San Giovanni Maggiore in Naples by the Order of Engineers of the Province of Naples until the end of October 2014. In March 2014, Catocci participated with the picture "The Girl of Zanzibar" at the event "Donna…Mia" at the Council Chamber of the Monumental Complex of Santa Maria La Nova in Naples.

BEAM COLLISIONS Photography | 2015 Alessandro Catocci

Pierluigi Paolucci

{ Higgs Boson Generation, 2015 }

I was looking for a picture of a real object that would bring me back to the Higgs Boson. I think that a photographer often reinterprets the reality, looking at it through the lens of his camera and often brings this professional deformation even in everyday banality. So one morning I simply looked at my shaving brush; and here it came the inspiration for Beam Collision; from a simple and ordinary shaving brush…In the same way, the idea of Higgs Boson Generation was also born, by just watching with a different eye something I had in my house for many years. Alessandro Catocci

Pierluigi Paolucci is a senior physicist at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Napoli. He joined CMS as Napoli Institution Leader in 2002. Since the beginning, he gave an important contribution to the design and construction of the RPC muon trigger and detector system. He was member of the CMS Conference Committee from the 2006 to the 2010 and CMS Database Coordinator from 2007 to 2010. Since 2010, Pierluigi is the RPC project manager and during this period he reorganized the project, the managerial structure and the common-found contribution rules. He was also able to increase the number of Italian CMS institutes from 15 to 21.

SCULPTURES IV Sculpture | 2015 Andy Charalambous

Austin Ball

{ Sculpture IV, 2015 | welded stainless steel tubing }

Feynman diagrams are named after Richard Feynman, who has the credit for developing this set of graphic symbols and rules that allow physicists to visually describe particle interactions. They are an essential tool for describing particle physics events and are used by all levels of scientists, from high school students to world leading researchers. I have an attraction to the look of these diagrams, and I am impressed that such simple graphical representations can be so powerful in communicating complex concepts. In my art work I use the functional qualities of the diagrams as a starting point and try to enhance the visual qualities that I see by re-representing these graphical symbols in other forms. This has led to my producing a series of both graphical and sculptural works. The Feynman diagram for beta decay was the starting point for Sculpture IV.

Andy Charalambous is a London-based artist who works in a variety of media including digital video, sculpture, installations and interventions. Andy takes a single idea or scientific concept and produces work that communicates by creating emotional reaction but also provides the opportunity to explore a deeper meaning and understanding of science. In 2011 he became Artist in Residence for the High Energy Physics Group at University College London, and recently also started a residency with the Astronomy group at University College London. This provides him with inspiration for his work as well as opportunities for projects, which bring artists and scientists together.

Austin Ball joined CERN and CMS technical coordination in 1998 as physicist being responsible for many tasks including overseeing design, construction, review and commissioning of CMS from a detector standpoint, culminating in the “cosmic challenge” system test of the magnet and detector in the surface assembly hall during 2006. After succeeding Alain Hervé as Technical Coordinator in 2006, Austin assumed overall responsibility for safety and timely completion and testing of CMS and its auxiliary systems in the underground cavern, ready for first proton beams in the LHC. He emphasizes that success in this challenging role is only being achieved thanks to the close support, cooperation, motivation and competence of the CERN host-lab team and the corresponding teams that comprise the worldwide CMS collaboration.

Joining art@CMS is a significant step for me, and it will have a major influence in the development of my art practice. Andy Charalambous 10

IN SEARCH OF THE HIGGS BOSON Digital Art | 2013 Xavier Cortada

Pete Markowitz

{ In Search of the Higgs Boson: H -> ZZ, 2013 | digital print }

Xavier Cortada and Pete Markowitz were already talking about how to elucidate the impact of the science at CERN, when Cortada was invited to visit the CMS experiment in August 2012. He was later invited to deliver an Art and Science talk during the 2013 CMS Week Conference, create a site-specific installation at the CMS experiment venue and engage scientists from around the world in a performance art piece that transforms them into the very subatomic particles they research. Working together, Cortada and Markowitz developed a permanent, site-specific art installation, entitled In Search of the Higgs Boson. The installation’s five banners give the different strategies to shift through the voluminous collisions recorded by the CMS experiment in the search for the Higgs-like particle. The foreground of each five-meter long banner shows an event which is a possible candidate for each of these different decays of the Higgs-like particle to a final state: two photons, two Z, two W, two bottom quarks or two tau leptons. The backgrounds reflect the 12

additional breadth of the physics program. Each depicts selected pages from every article published by the CMS collaboration. This work is about honouring the people who have increased our understanding of the universe - those scientists, engineers, technicians and others from around the entire planet whose work and names are showcased in these banners. The connection between their work and the people themselves is brought out in both the banners and the performance. In the performance piece, the physicists become their work. In each banner, their work becomes art. The art banners, created by digitally manipulating models, publications, logos and charts produced by the CMS collaboration, evoke the CMS experiment’s dual legacy: inspiring a future generation of scientists by building upon the work of those who came before. Xavier Cortada & Pete Markowitz Xavier Cortada is a Miami-based artist who has worked with groups globally to produce numerous collaborative art projects, including peace murals in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama, AIDS murals in Switzerland and South Africa, and eco-art projects in commissioned to create for the White House, the World Bank, the Florida Botanical Gardens, Miami City Hall, Miami-Dade County Hall, the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Science Museum, the Museum of Florida History, and the Frost Art Museum. Cortada holds degrees from the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School Business and School of Law. He serves as Artist in Residence at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Architecture + The Arts (CARTA).

Pete Markowitz is Professor of Physics and Fellow of the Honor College Honor at Florida International University (FIU). He is expert in the electromagnetic production of quarks (especially strange quarks), exotic forms of matter and physics at the limits of the Standard Model. As part of the FIU group, Pete has been working on the CMS experiment at CERN for more than ten years, primarily with the Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) sub-detector. 13

COOL MOSAIC SIMULACRUM Mosaic Art | 2015 Maurizio Di Palo

Pierluigi Paolucci

result is an acrylic resin mosaic made only with electronic components and equipment used for the construction of the CMS experiment. The mosaic represents almost accurately a quarter of the barrel region of the CMS detector. Maurizio Di Palo

Maurizio Di Palo was born in Naples, Italy, in 1962. He obtained his architecture degree in 1987 at the University of Naples Federico II. As director of Ing. Giosuè Di Palo Costruzioni restoration and construction company, he has realized many important restoration works of public buildings. As architect, he has designed and supervised the construction of many private apartments and villas. This year, he curates the art@CMS exhibition in Napoli at the Sala delle Carceri of the Castel dell'Ovo. For this exhibition, he has also created in collaboration with particle physicist Pierluigi Paolucci the acrylic mosaic artwork, entitled Cool Mosaic Simulacrum.

{ Cool Mosaic Simulacrum, 2015 | acrylic resin mosaic }

Architect Maurizio Di Palo and particle physicist Pierluigi Paolucci are friends for 25 years. They have often discussed how physics and architecture, which seem so different, can be linked together. Maurizio visited the CMS experiment twice. The first time was when the cavern was completely empty and the second when this gigantic detector, called Compact Muon Solenoid, was fully installed. He was really impressed by this installation and by the aesthetic beauty of this “modern cathedral”. It was then that they both understood that this was the link between architecture and physics that they were looking for many years.

A few years later they decided to reproduce CMS with a mosaic technique but using only tiles made by components that were really used to build the detector. Suddenly they had the idea to contact the CAEN company and ask them to visit their laboratory to look for old electronic components, cables, chips and more. After two days spent at CAEN, they were able to recuperate a lot of nice parts dismounting many electronics boards that are still used today in CMS. The final 14

THE FORMS OF THE INFINITE Painting | 2014 Paco Falco

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t frightening. The meaning outlines itself in traits without anguish. The infinitely small may be perceived through the light and its passage leaves an inviting trace. The Forms of the Infinite by Paco Falco immerses in the theme of matter almost by chance, and deepens into it thanks to a friend, Pier Luigi Paolucci, a physicist at the CMS experiment. Pier assists Paco in his orientation within the concepts of this theme, showing him around CERN in Geneva, acting as his guide and, in a certain sense, as interpreter, elaborating a meta-language that may associate the pictorial dimension with the terms and themes of the world of scientific research by rendering possible the materialization in forms and colours.

Pierluigi Paolucci

Paco Falco & Pierluigi Paolucci

{ Incollider, 2014 | acrylic painting }

Paco Falcoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research wanders into the darkness of sound where colour is generated in light and matter acquires form, emerging pure and luminous from the incessant labour of forces engaged in a struggle, the sense of which appears to be inscrutable. Is God revealing himself upon defeating the devil in an eternal battle or no? Perhaps God has nothing to do with it. No point in casting the glove of challenge. Matter and the universe are neither damned nor blessed. Enough researching. Even along the impassable paths that lead to ancestral reigns, lacking coordinates within dilating space in an immeasurable time. The instruments are an explosion of colours, the unimaginable velocities leaving a trace of their course. Dark matter reveals its tints in the reunification of the infinite points that is composed of. It imposes itself, giving consistency to an apparent inconsistency. The beginning after the explosion of chaos lightly emerges, placid, beyond the reticules.

Paco Falco was born in Naples, Italy. He embarked on his career as a painter in the Spanish quarters of Naples where he held his first personal exhibition in Studio49VideoArte Gallery. One of his paintings is now on show in the Contemporary Religious Art Museum, Napoli, Italy, inside the monumental complex of Santa Maria La Nova. Paco Falco has participated in various group exhibitions, performances and art events, including Toledo in Progress, Sotto pelle, Artists under the Sky, Pictorial Encounters, Das Ewigweibliche, and Vetur Terra Felix. As part of the appARTissima project, Paco Falco has also produced live artworks with a combined technicality, integrating poetry and music by other artists in his Three Arts at Convention. He has also held a solo show entitled Paco in app. Pierluigi Paolucci is a senior physicist at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Napoli. He joined CMS as Napoli Institution Leader in 2002. Since the beginning, he gave an important contribution to the design and construction of the RPC muon trigger and detector system. He was member of the CMS Conference Committee from the 2006 to the 2010 and CMS Database Coordinator from 2007 to 2010. Since 2010, Pierluigi is the RPC project manager and during this period he reorganized the project, the managerial structure and the common-found contribution rules. He was also able to increase the number of Italian CMS institutes from 15 to 21.

TO SEE A WORLD Sculpture | 2013 Alison Gill

Ian Shipsey

Detector (Kissing Gate) uses the invisible force of magnetism, but to rather different effect – to influence the opening, closing and turning of a sculptural circle which becomes a portal. Here again the art and non-art references come together. This is a gate, a potential point of entry to alternative experiences, including, perhaps, the magnetic attractions of romance. It also looks like a bicycle wheel removed from its context, which summons Duchamp’s first readymade. The sculptural placement of string across a hole brings Barbara Hepworth to mind. But its pattern takes us back to Gill’s interest in topology: it’s a ‘Mystic Rose’ produced by linking equidistant points around a circle to each other. Alison Gill shows us that, whether or not you can ‘hold infinity in the palm of your hand’, you can pause in the course of momentous scientific investigations to take in another perspective on the haunting unity of what surrounds us. Paul Carey-Kent

{ Detector (Kissing Gate), 2013 | one piece, steel, linen ‘ink’ string, neodymium pot magnets }

Something unusual is taking place at the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Where there would normally be physicists and engineers at work there is an artist. Why? Because big science is beautiful and art is a central language that can articulate this. Alison Gill is a good choice in that context: she trained as sculptor, teacher, has studied psychoanalysis, and has taken a keen interest in scientific and mathematical matters. Her work brings together interests in topology, the physical sciences, psychoanalysis, folklore and, of course, art; yet does not treat those as different in kind, but as points of equal interest on a continuum. That makes it appropriate to suggest an affinity with Blake, who was writing at a time when poetry, philosophy and science felt like part of one large project of enquiry. The discipline of sculpture suits this approach, given that, as Gill herself says, “it is dealing with matter and its absence, material both seen and unseen”; and that leads her into what she calls “the dimension of not knowing”.

Alison Gill is an artist based in London who has exhibited work widely in both the UK and internationally over the last two decades. Her practice uses both drawing and sculpture to create conditions to spark the imagination and curiosity of the viewer and encourage audiences to examine and question their own associations and experience of uncertainty and wonder. The process-driven, analytical and interdisciplinary approach that Gill takes, strives to be poetic and visually engaging; it has involved dialogues and collaboration with those in other fields of knowledge such as scientists, writers, a philosopher, an economist and a poet.

Ian Shipsey is Professor of Experimental Physics at Oxford University. He has served as the Chairperson of the Collaboration Board of CMS. He is a part of a team that builds cameras that look at the world in new ways. One of these cameras photographed the Higgs particle as part of the CMS at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Another will be part of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope that will see more of the universe in three nights than all previous telescopes built by mankind when it begins operation in Chile in 2021. 19

DYNAMICS OF THE APPARATUS Audiovisual Art | 2014-15 Chris Henschke

spatializes the sound dynamics by mapping (video) time across (screen) space. The result can be seen as a dynamic "readymade", in the sense of the term coined by the French mathematician Poincare.

Wolfgang Adam By embedding the energy within footage of the apparatus that produces, they become conceptually connected into a state, which the quantum physicist Niels Bohr calls "phenomena". The LHC sound is present in the soundtrack, which also contains the ambient sounds of the various experimental areas, and low-frequency analogue synthesizer tones. These are generated to enhance the near-sublime yet also somewhat disturbing sensation of being in these space-time and mind-bending environments. Chris Henschke

{ Dynamics Of The Apparatus, 2014-15| Digital video, sonified beam tune and collision event data }

Dynamics of the Apparatus was produced by Chris Henschke at CERN in 2014 and 2015. The work conveys both experimental and experiential aspects of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and was derived from 4K video shot by Henschke and CMS physicist Michael Hoch at various locations at CERN, including areas that are usually inaccessible. Such locations range from old near-abandoned experimental zones, including what the CERN scientists call “The Black Hole”, to the 10,000 ton CMS detector. In collaboration with Austrian particle physicist Wolfgang Adam, Henschke has turned data from collision events captured in the CMS detector into energetic forms, which is manifested through sound and video. This sound is the electromagnetic wave that is vibrating transversely along the energy beam in the LHC, analogous to the way a vibration passes along a violin string. This sound/energy vibration is used to affect the video in a way that algorithmically

Chris Henschke is a Melbourne-based artist who has been working with digital media since the late 20th century. His main areas of practice are in the experimental combining of sound and image, space and time, and art and science. Chris has undertaken various multi-disciplinary residency projects including two ‘Arts Victoria Arts Innovation’ and Australia Council for the Arts 'Synapse' residencies at the Australian Synchrotron (2007, 2010); an Asialink Visual Arts residency at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (2008); and the inaugural online artist in residence at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2004). His artworks have been shown around Australia and internationally, including CERN (2014, 2015); Wonderland Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2012); Art Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne (2010); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2001); Vivid Festival, Sydney, (2009, 2013).

Wolfgang Adam is senior physicist responsible for CMS data analysis at the institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) in Vienna, Austria. He has been working for the CMS experiment for 15 years and he is deeply involved in searches for Supersymmetry.

MATTER-ANTI-MATTER Photo Collage | 2013 Michael Hoch

It turns out that our mere existence is nothing but a near miss. Matter-Anti-Matter looks back 14 billion years, at a time shortly after the Big Bang. At that time, matter was created but also antimatter; not a tiny amount of it, but just 0.00000001% less than matter. Shortly after their creation, matter and antimatter collided again, annihilated, and disintegrated into pure radiation. If it wouldn’t have been for the 0.00000001% more matter, our universe as we know it, would have been filled with radiation and nothing else. No galaxies, no stars, no planets, no life. But nature decided to allow a small violation in the perfect symmetry of matter and antimatter. And this petty excess of matter is what our whole universe is made of. Michael Hoch

Michael Hoch was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied Sports and Physics at the University of Technology and the University of Vienna. During his studies and work as trainer he concentrated his photographic art work on human movements and architecture. Later coming to Geneva to make his PhD at CERN he started to work on his long term project, entitled “Where Science Meets Art”.

I have been working for several years as a member of the CMS collaboration mainly on the central tracker. The CMS experiment is a science installation as high as a six story building, designed to measure subatomic processes produced by proton collisions in the LHC. This huge measuring device is built with a precision of a thickness of a human hair. It takes 40,000,000 pictures per second of the proton collisions which create states of matter predicted by theory but not yet observed.

Hoch began his solo exhibition career with two shows: “Fruehling” in New York - 1993” and “StadtArchitekturLandSchaften - 1995” at KIP in Vienna, Austria. In 2004, his ScienceArt photos were presented at the St. Monel Cultural Centre in St. Genis-Pouilly, France. In 2008, several large photo collages were presented during the CERN Open Day at LHC-P5 in Cessy, France. The same year, the photo series “LandsCaps” was also exhibited in Thoiry, France. In 2010, Hoch produced his 3D film “Inside LHC” that was presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. In 2011 and 2012, two life-size images of the CMS detector were installed in CERN’s Meyrin site, and in CMS experiment’s LHC-P5 site.

Both CMS and the LHC are not only engineering marvels at the forefront of science and technology, but have intrinsic geometries with exceptional aesthetics that can also be viewed as work of art. The aesthetics of CMS are associated with its functionality as a gigantic measuring device. Periodic multiplicities emerge out of the physical measurement constraints. A strict scientific precision allows us to unfold the secrets of nature. In Natural Science, the human-designed strict scientific apparatus merges with the quasi-chaotic appearance of nature. However, nature also follows strict rules in its creation and manifestation.

Hoch’s solo exhibition “Art of Science, Beauty in Creation” was shown at Aula der Wissenschaft, Vienna in July 2012, and at CERN in December 2012. The same year Hoch initiated art@CMS that has since evolved into an official CMS education and outreach programme, enabling more than 100,000 people in 12 countries to gain a better understanding of how science works and how the public and especially young people can engage with it.

{ The GodParticleHuntingMachine, 2013 | photo collage }

NO FIXED POINT Textile Art | 2015 Lindsay Olson

Don Lincoln

{ Discoveries, 2015 | silk, DMC embroidery thread, cotton, acrylic on linen }

Lindsay’s artistic practice grows out of an intense curiosity about the ways our society is supported by science and technology and uses her training to create art about the hidden realities of our world. In contrast, Don is both a researcher and a passionate science communicator, utilizing videos, presentations and the written word to bring the world of research to communities who would otherwise be unaware of the fascinating science that surrounds us. Working together, our current project, entitled No Fixed Point, sheds light on the smallest frontier: the subatomic realm of quarks and leptons. We are fascinated by the behavior of nature’s fundamental building blocks that make up all that we see. Together, we view the art@CMS programme as an ideal way to invite others with little or no technical background to explore the very underpinnings of reality itself. The Standard Model of particle physics is a breathtakingly successful conceptual

tool we use to explain our universe. It tells how the vibrant and exciting cosmos in which we live can be explained as endless combinations of a few key building blocks, governed by a handful of simple principles. Using leviathan accelerators, scientists are able to probe deeper into the most basic components of the universe and the rules that govern them. The final prediction of the Standard Model was the Higgs boson and it was recently discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Lindsay was intrigued by the visual and intellectual challenge to express this powerful conceptual tool. Using information gleaned from the collaboration, Lindsay used dyed textiles, embroidery and other techniques to express the elegance of the Standard Model of particle physics. Lindsay Olson & Don Lincoln

Lindsay Olson is Fermilab’s first Artist in Residence. She is also an art teacher at Columbia College in Chicago, US. She is known for her unusual subject matter including a stint as the Artist in Residence for her local police department. Her love of science and technology grew out of her work with Chicago’s Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, the world’s largest waste water treatment facility. Lindsay uses her work to help others learn about the science and engineering that underpins modern culture. Her work has been shown in the United States and Europe.

Don Lincoln is a physicist at Fermilab, America’s premier particle physics facility. Coauthor of over 800 papers, he cites two as of special significance: the discovery of the top quark and the discovery of the Higgs boson. Of late, his research focus employs the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider as a way to search for the ultimate building blocks of the cosmos. In addition to his research, Lincoln is an inveterate popularizer of science – making videos and writing both books and magazine articles. His most recent book The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind, was recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. 25

Born in Naples, Francesco Paolantoni studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. Upon completion, he embarked on his career as a dramatic stage actor in the late 1970s. In 1987, he debuted as a comedian in Renzo Arbore’s show Indietro Tutta but the real success came in 1996 with Gialappa’s Band Mai dire Gol and later with with his participation in Quelli che…il Calcio. He has also been active in movies. Paolantoni has worked, among many others, with Paolo Virzi, Mario Martone, Cristina Comencini and Sabina Guzzanti. Over the years, he has participated in many public events with the most important being the PAN museum of Naples where in Novermber 2014 he exposed about 20 artworks representing Naples and Neapolitan culture with his polyhedral mosaic.

BIG BANG Mosaic Art | 2015 Francesco Paolantoni

Pierluigi Paolucci

{ Bing Bang, 2015 | mosaic made with coloured bread }

How can one imagine the Big Bang? It was the first moment at which the Universe, concrete materials and life appeared. And what a better medium than bread to use in order to illustrate such a magic moment. Bread is made with wheat and water. It is one of the simplest aliments in the world. That is why I decided to represent the Bing Bang by using bread to construct the colourful tiles of a mosaic. In my mind, the Bing Bang symbolizes life. And life is full of so many colours.

Francesco Paolantoni

BIKE

CMS IN ACTION

Video | 2014 | Duration: 6 min

Video | 2013 | Duration: 2 min 59 sec

Peter Bellamy

Paul Schuster Peter Bellamy lives and works in London, where he graduated from the Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Peter has been awarded the Landmark Plc. Fine Art Award in 2014.

Paul Schuster is an Austrian video artist whose work focuses on the production of action ski and snowboard videos. In 2013, he was invited to visit the CMS experiment at CERN and to take some footage of the detector.

Suspended between wonder and whimsy, Bellamy’s Bike is a homage to reality and visual experience inspired by CMS.

GOTTA CATCH EM ALL

LOVE IS THE 5TH ELEMENT

Video | 2014 | Duration: 33 sec

Video | 2014 | Duration: 4 min 6 sec

Rosa Nussbaum

Anastasia Siderenko German-born Rosa Nussbaum is a London-based artist and writer with a BA in Print and Time-based Media from the Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Rosa’s work inhabits and oversaturates the fabric of popular culture. Like with a TV show or an action figure, Gotta Catch Em All is like a hermit crab, seeking out forms and shells belonging to other genres. It points beyond and takes input from outside the art context.

In CMS in Action, the detector is presented according to Schuster’s familiar style of action sport videos, resulting in a fascinating watch.

In spring 2014, eighteen high-school students of the International School of Geneva (ECOLINT) took part in an art and science workshop supervised by artist and educator Stephen Preece and the art@CMS team. For this workshop, Anastasia Sidorenko, one of the ECOLINT students, composed the music and wrote the lyrics for Love is the 5th Element. She also directed the video clip and designed the dress - made out of holographic paper - that she is wearing in the video. 29

The CMS detector

Image credits Michael Hoch & Maximilien Brice ÂŠ 2008 CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration