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Interactions NewsWire #19-12
12 March 2012 http://www.interactions.org
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Source: CERN
Content: Press Release
Date Issued: 12 March 2012
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CERN welcomes its first artist in residence

Geneva, 12 March 2012. Creative collisions have begun at CERN1 with the
arrival of Julius von Bismarck as the laboratory's first Collide@CERN
artist in residence. A rising star of the international arts scene, von
Bismarck will team up with theoretical physicist James Wells as he works
alongside the lab's engineers and scientists for the next two months
before moving to the Ars Electronica Center2 in Linz, Austria for the
second part of his residency. Von Bismarck and Wells will give a public
presentation in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation on 21 March. Doors
open at 18:45.

"Particle physics and the arts are natural partners, both explore our
place in the universe and both examine what it is to be human," said CERN
Director General Rolf Heuer. "We are delighted to welcome Julius von
Bismarck as our first artist in residence and we look forward to his
creative interrogations and interactions with our science."

Julius von Bismarck is the winner of the first Prix Ars Electronica
Collide@CERN3 residency award, which attracted close to 400 entries from
40 countries around the world.

He was given the award by an international jury for "his proposal and
work, which manipulates and criticises our notions of reality in
unpredictable ways, often with inventive use of video, objects and public
interventions". His works are also characterised by his fascination with
complex philosophical and scientific ideas.

"Putting an artist in a place where thousands of scientists are looking
for things that nature has never exhibited before is very exciting and, of
course, I wanted to be that artist," said von Bismarck. "I am fascinated
by making things perceivable which were never perceived before, and CERN
is potentially a goldmine for unperceivable or even unimaginable things."

The public event on 21 March will be opened by CERN Director General Rolf
Heuer joined on videoconference by Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of
Ars Electronica. Julius von Bismarck and James Wells will make individual
presentations of their work and then discuss their forthcoming creative
collisions at CERN. CERN's cultural specialist, Ariane Koek will chair the
discussion and take questions from the audience.

"It is interesting that after the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN jury
made the award to Julius von Bismarck, we discovered that he comes from a
family of particle physicists and had to choose between going into the
arts or science," said Koek. "This clearly shows how creativity, intuition
and ingenuity goes across the arts and science, which are both expressions
of what it is to be human in this world."

During the residency, the public will be able to follow and comment on the
experience and interchanges on a blog featuring Julius von Bismarck, James
Wells and Horst Hoertner, von Bismarck's production mentor at Ars
Electronica where he is Director of the transdisciplinary Futurelab,
location for the last month of the residency. Following his residency, von
Bismarck will showcase work and ideas developed during his time at CERN at
both this year's Ars Electronica Festival in September and at CERN.

Journalists interested in attending the public lecture on Wednesday 21
March in the Globe of Science and Innovation should register with the CERN
Press Office by sending a request to press....@cern.ch. Doors open at
18.45 with presentations starting at 19:30.

Contact:
press....@cern.ch
+41 (0) 22 767 34 32
+41 (0) 22 767 21 41

Further information about the Collide@CERN programme  : www.cern.ch/arts;
arian...@cern.ch

The Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN blog :
http://www.aec.at/futurelab/en/blog/

Notes for editors:

Julius von Bismarck is completing his studies at The Institute of Spatial
Experiment in Berlin, which is directed by the Danish-Icelandic artist
Olafur Eliasson. Von Bismarck first sprang to international attention,
when at the age of 25 he won the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica
in 2008, which is the top prize in digital arts, for his work 'Image
Fulgarator'. He recently had his first commercial gallery opening in
Berlin at the Alexander Levy Gallery in January 2012. See
http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/ and http://alexanderlevy.net/

Dr James Wells is a theoretical physicist working at CERN and a Professor
at the University of Michigan. He pursues ideas of physics beyond the
Standard Model,  "finding new ways to discover theories by experiment,
developing and refining theories to answer as many questions as I can,
using experimental results to guide theory, and motivating future
experimental work". His numerous publications include: "How to Find a
Hidden World at the Large Hadron Collider", "Bringing Hidden Dimensions
into View" and "Supersymmetric dark matter with a cosmological constant".


1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in
Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,
the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession.
Israel is an Associate Member in the pre-stage to Membership. India,
Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the
European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.

2. Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is part of UNTERNEHMENSGRUPPE STADT LINZ.
Incorporated in 1995, Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is in charge of planning
and producing the Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica,
and responsible for the operation of the Ars Electronica Center and the
Ars Electronica Futurelab. Funding is provided by the city of City of
Linz, the Province of Upper Austria and the Republic of Austria. The
managing executives of Ars Electronica Linz GmbH are Gerfried Stocker
(artistic director) and Diethard Schwarzmair (chief financial officer).

3. The Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the digital arts strand of the
three year Collide@CERN programme initiated by CERN in 2011. The digital
arts prize marks a three-year science/arts cultural partnership and
creative collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica - which began with
CERN's cooperation with Origin - the Ars Electronica Festival in 2011. The
second strand of the programme is Collide@CERN - Geneva, which this year
will be awarded in Dance and Performance. The winner will be announced
later this month.

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