Artist Xavier Cortada and physicist Pete Marktowitz present their participatory CMS art project

Tuesday 9 Apr 2013, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Library, 52 1-052 (CERN)

Artist Xavier Cortada and physicist Pete Marktowitz present their participatory CMS art project
 
Xavier Cortada is an American artist and painter, and artist in residence at FIU College of Architecture and  the Arts in Florida who also  specializes in participatory art projects. His work includes art installations at the Earth’s poles to generate awareness about climate change,  child welfare murals in Bolivia and peace murals in Cyprus.

Xavier will be in conversation with CMS physicist Pete Markowitz, also from FIU, to discuss the participatory art piece which  they have developed together and which will be showcased in the CMS  detector hall on Thursday April 11thduring the experiment’s conference week.

The piece promises to ‘engage 300 scientists from around the world in a performance art piece that transforms them into the very subatomic particles they research.’

It is the first piece by Art@CMS, a new project inspired by the Arts@CERN programme.

Discover more about how this new piece was developed  as well as about Xavier’s work by joining him and Pete Markowitz in conversation in  the CERN Library on Tuesday April 9th  at 1600.

For further information  about Xavier Cortada, see here
http://www.xaviercortada.com