Physics and Art
July 2012
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July 27, 2012breaking: Physics doo-wop group's last standAt their final performance on July 21, it was apparent that the members of Les Horribles Cernettes, a physics-themed doo-wop group, loved every proton of the more than 500 people that packed the annual Hardronic Music Festival at CERN.
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July 11, 2012breaking: Physicist by day, soul man by nightThis Sunday, guitarist Charlie Wayne played for a crowd of about 10,000 with his up-and-coming Chicago soul band. The next morning, he went back to his day job at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where he investigates the cosmos – and answers to his given name, Dan Hooper.
April 2012
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April 18, 2012breaking: Listening for the sound of scienceEver wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles.
March 2012
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March 22, 2012breaking: Digital artist creates new kind of experiment at CERNIf attendees at the welcome reception for CERN’s first artist-in-residence learned one thing last night, it was that Julius von Bismarck is not afraid to disrupt others with his art.
February 2012
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February 14, 2012contest: My entangled heartReaders who submitted to our "My Physical Romance” readers' challenge found love through physics and, sometimes, physics through love. But in all scenarios, they show the passion that physics can inspire.
January 2012
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January 31, 2012breaking: Fermilab sounds debut in "Alternative Energy"Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."
December 2011
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December 9, 2011breaking: A new book plays on the mystery of physics machinesUnderground and closed off from visitors, experiments in particle physics often hide, rather than flaunt, the exotic and intricate machines that seem more at home in a science fiction blockbuster. No space shuttles, rockets or rovers wow visitors at today’s physics laboratories. The tried and true conduit from the underground to the outside world remains in most part the camera.
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December 6, 2011breaking: Digital artist wins first CERN, Ars Electronica joint-residency competitionCERN and international cyberarts organization Ars Electronica declared Julius von Bismarck the winner of their first digital arts joint-residency program today. The 28-year-old German artist will spend two months at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, and a third month at Ars Electronica in Austria, collaborating with scientists and digital experts to create a physics-inspired artwork as part of the Collide@CERN program.
November 2011
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November 22, 2011breaking: Tabletop ATLAS assembly, no hardhat requiredPhysicist Sascha Mehlhase may have missed the actual construction of the ATLAS detector at CERN, but he found another way to experience the joy of building it – a way reminiscent of his childhood and the contents of a particularly good toy box he once had. He made the detector out of Legos.
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November 4, 2011breaking: CERN announces competition for dance and performance arts residencyToday the Collide@CERN residency program begins accepting submissions for artists working in dance or performance arts to come learn and create in the laboratory.
October 2011
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October 31, 2011breaking: Graffiti art reflects an experiment’s excitement on the wallsThe site of the CMS experiment now sports two physics-themed outdoor frescoes done by a local graffiti artist, with one design by a retired CMS researcher.
September 2011
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September 19, 2011breaking: Developers create virtual CERNNeng Xu, a software engineer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on the ATLAS experiment, sat drinking coffee in a sunny corner of CERN’s cafeteria when he thought of a challenge. Could he create a virtual version of what he saw out the window: a lawn with cafe tables and a building across the street?
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September 8, 2011breaking: CERN, Ars Electronica introduce artist-in-residency programScientists from dozens of countries and cultures mingle at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider. Last weekend, the laboratory announced plans to introduce a new element into the mix: artists.
August 2011
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August 23, 2011breaking: Physicist tapes together particle dataAs homage to tape and physics, MIT postdoctoral associate Teppei Katori, who works at Fermilab, created the art piece Selex. Named for a fixed-target charmed baryon experiment that ran in Fermilab’s Tevatron from 1996-97, Selex is part of the exhibit Tape: A Celebration currently showing at the Chicago Art Department in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood.
February 2011
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February 10, 2011breaking: Particle Physics Photowalk exhibits open around the globeStarting Feb. 11, photography exhibits will open in Asia, Europe and North America to showcase images from the first Global Particle Physics Photowalk.
January 2011
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January 4, 2011breaking: Playing by ear in the laboratoryPhysicists and musicians from the LHCsound collaboration have launched a program translate data from the Large Hadron Collider into musical notes through a process called sonification. Their hope is that physicists could use sonified data to supplement traditional visual and numerical data from the machine, possibly picking up events with their ears that their eyes would miss.
December 2010
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December 17, 2010breaking: Global Particle Physics Photowalk calendar available for downloadThis year, five laboratories in four countries invited more than 200 photographers to tour their grounds and translate the work of science into works of art. A calendar featuring the 15 winning images from the Global Particle Physics Photowalk is now available for free download.
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December 6, 2010breaking: A new record for ATLASThe ATLAS experiment at CERN has a new record – but this time note for proton collisions recorded or numbers of exotic particles produced. Instead, today marks the debut of the collaboration’s first music album, featuring several dozen physicists, engineers and technicians playing everything from heavy metal to classical piano.
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December 1, 2010breaking: Holy hologram!A reader from Granada, Spain, responds in verse to the symmetry breaking article about physicist Craig Hogan's holometer experiment.
November 2010
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November 1, 2010breaking: Photographer crosses globe to capture art of high-energy physicsFrom ATLAS to Antarctica, photographer Stanley Greenberg has travelled the world in a high-energy treasure hunt for the shapes of physics. In a book of photographs to be published next year, Greenberg will show the results of his five-year photography tour of detectors and accelerators across the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Japan and Antarctica.
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