Arts at CERN

Creator: CERN|Art form: All|Knowledge valorisation : Co-creation, Outreach|Place: CERN,Switzerland|Location : Offline|Target group: Academics, Cultural and creative professionals and institutions|Domains: Digital Age|Duration : Events
Credits: CERN
Credits: CERN

Artists residency

Challenge: Stimulate the creativity of fundamental researchers

Arts at CERN provides different fully-funded residency programmes for artists of all creative disciplines to engage in a dialogue with physicists, engineers and staff of the Laboratory. It is funded by the CERN & Society Foundation. Since the launch of the first artist residency in 2012, over 250 artists from around the globe have been invited and engaged with over 1000 scientists of CERN.
Besides artist residencies, Arts at CERN now also encompass art commissions, exhibitions and events that bridge the gap between art, science and society. For example, 35 art commissions have been supported by Arts at CERN, enabling scientists to gain fresh perspectives on their research through the transformative lens of artistic expression.

Resources needed

Daily fee granted to the artists who participates in the residency

Purpose of artistic intervention

The residency programme aims at inspiring artists and researchers in return

Positive impacts

“Through Arts at CERN, the Laboratory explore the significance of fundamental research in our society and sets itself as a unique place for cultural innovation.”
An example of residency would be the work of Johanna Bruckner at CERN. She worked with scientists from the CERN’s Open Lab to prototype a digital twin fed with real data but also speculative multispecies scenarios, to challenge static simulation models and foster an imaginary world beyond technological, political and social disasters.
For Charlotte Warakaulle, Director for International Relations at CERN “Art and science are essential pillars of society, and artists and scientists share common core-values: curiosity and the passion to understand the world on a deeper level. At CERN, we have always believed that these two fields could grow together through creative interaction, and that is the basis of Arts at CERN”.

Replication

Artist residencies are more and more common in research centres and universities