The event is aimed at the CERN community and CERN Alumni and Retirees, therefore physical attendance will require having a valid CERN access card.
Arts at CERN Talk series - Meet the artists
Arts at CERN is delighted to invite you to the inaugural event of its new Talk Series, Meet the Artists, organised in collaboration with the CERN Library.
This first event welcomes artists Céline Manz and Juan Sorrentino, recipients of the Arts at CERN Connect Argentina residency. The conversation will focus on their current projects and invites the CERN community to explore, question, and critically engage with their work – establishing fertile ground for dialogue and reflections at the crossroads of artistic research and scientific enquiry.
Based in Buenos Aires, Juan Sorrentino is a sound artist and experimental musician whose practice spans sonic sculptures and immersive installations. His project, Cherenkov Tides – ψ(r,t), reinterprets cosmic and subatomic phenomena through sound, vibration, and light. In collaboration with particle physicists and astrophysicists, he explores new materialisations of sound and aims at developing sonification algorithms to create perceptual environments that render the invisible matter of the universe experientially tangible.
Céline Manz, a research-based multidisciplinary artist from Basel, works across theory, archives, and experimental methodologies. Her project, Echoes from the Void, connects scientific research on cosmic rays with a critical historiography of knowledge politics in physics. Centring on the contributions of scientists Marietta Blau and Bibha Chowdhuri, the project interweaves field recordings, early photographic records, and physics data sonification to bridge historical and contemporary scientific inquiry through sonic and somatic experience.
Following three weeks of research at the Pierre Auger Observatory, and fresh from their arrival at CERN, the artists will share insights from their residency in Argentina and open the discussion to the CERN community.
Connect Argentina is a collaboration between CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, offering a dual residency between the Pierre Auger Observatory and CERN. The programme is organised in partnership with Presente Continuo - Arts & Science Program by Fundación Bunge y Born and Fundación Williams.
The discussion will be moderated by Giulia Bini, Head of Arts at CERN.
We look forward to welcoming you to this engaging exchange! A light apéro will be offered at the end of the talk.
Read more: https://arts.cern/connect/