Arts@CERN announces 3 new awards and reaches Asia
Geneva, 28 October 2014. CERN is announcing today a new Collide @ CERN2 residency award award in cultural partnership with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, as well as two Accelerate @ CERN awards3 with the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan and the Austrian Federal Chancellery. All are part of the Arts @ CERN programme, which was initiated by CERN in 2011. "Our creative engagement with the fields of the arts has created exceptional international interest and support and we are proud to be continuing our programme with new partners from Europe to Asia," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. "With Arts @ CERN, we are demonstrating how science is a fundamental part of culture in the widest sense." This is the first year of the Pro Helvetia4 Collide @ CERN residency award, and it will be devoted to artists from any art discipline who wish to create a project that engages with the artistic, interactive and connective potential of the worldwide web, which this year celebrated its 25th anniversary. The award, for artists or designers who live, work or were born in Switzerland, consists of a residency of 3 months at CERN with a stipend of 15,000 CHF funded by Pro Helvetia. The open call begins today and will close on 27 February 2015.
