The COLLIDE International Award is a major international residency programme and a new collaboration between CERN, Geneva and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool). Proposals reflecting on encounters between art and science are invited.
COLLIDE International Award is a unique opportunity for artists to spend dedicated time in one of the most important laboratories in the world, where crucial questions about nature are addressed. COLLIDE aims to encourage curiosity, offering experimental and open-minded artists an extraordinary framework to inspire creativity both within the sciences and the humanities. Ultimately, COLLIDE proposes to transform the way art and science encounters are understood, and to challenge new modes of dialogue and enquiry.
Arts@CERN has flourished since its creation in 2011, binding arts, science and technology to contribute to a fast growing knowledge-based culture.
The competition is open to artists of any nationality or age. Their proposal should reflect uponencounters between art and science, and offer challenging methods of collaboration with CERN scientists. The scope of this proposal should also consider a second developmental phase at FACT, where the artists will have the opportunity to expand their research and test its applications through FACTLab’s facilities and engagement with a wide range of communities. The ultimate goal for the residency will be the research and development of new concepts in laboratory contexts.
COLLIDE Open Call for Entries encourages the participation of artists interested in the ideas described above, complying with any of the following criteria:
- Artists interested in the cultural significance of science.
- Artists working with digital and scientific media, technology and concepts as inspiration for their work.
- Artists engaging with an innovative discourse on contemporary culture, following ambitious standards of creativity.
- Artists demonstrating an active interest in the institutional visions, research methodologies, and cultural engagement of CERN and FACT.
- Artists interested in the processes of fundamental science and particle physics who are able to extrapolate this understanding into projects of artistic excellence.
- Artists pushing the traditional forms of collaboration between the artistic and scientific fields, and asking innovative and provocative questions in this respect.
- Artists approaching science and research from diverse angles of enquiry, such as political, ethical, or sociological perspectives.
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