Arts@CERN announces three winning artists and launches an open call
Geneva, 30 April 2015. Arts @ CERN, CERN 's official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate @ CERN and Collide @ CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide @ CERN in digital arts. Now in its fifth year, Arts @ CERN has welcomed more than 70 artists to the Laboratory. " In pursuit of its cultural policy, Arts @ CERN continues to bring 'Great Arts for Great Science', giving artists the opportunity to discover the universe of high-energy physics at CERN, " said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer. Accelerate @ CERN is a one month research stay at CERN, organized in collaboration this year with Taiwan and Austria. The jury2 of Accelerate @ CERN Taiwan, funded by the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan, made the award to a joint project from dancer Wenchi Su and digital artist Pei-Ying Lin, for their unique combination of dance and physics principles, where language and spatial interaction would be used in extraordinary ways. "CERN is the dream place I always wanted to go to, except I never expected to be there as an artist rather than a physicist," says Pei-Ying Lin.
