CERN artist-in-residence announced

Yunchul Kim has been declared the winner of the inaugural COLLIDE International Award, a new collaboration between CERN and the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool.

The South Korean artist will have a two month fully funded residency at CERN, one month at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), in addition to a prize of £11,000. While at CERN, Kim will develop his project proposal Cascade, a look at the possibility of controlling light propagation through colloidal suspensions of photonic crystals.

Monica Bello, head of Arts@CERN, a scheme combining art and science at CERN, said: “Art and science are extraordinary ways of exploring knowledge, and Arts@CERN exists to encourage dialogue and exchange. I am thrilled to welcome Yunchul Kim. His proposal will certainly open up new ways of working alongside CERN scientists.”

A three person jury assessed more than 900 entries from 71 countries around the world. When voting for Kim as the winner of the award, they said: “The sculptural nature of Yunchul Kim’s work creates uncanny experiences, which at times seem beyond belief, and challenge our understanding of the world as both analytic and embodied. Yunchul Kim has an outstanding ability to explore the gap between the experiential and conceptual, and we are thrilled to see how he will embed these ideas in his residency at CERN and FACT.”

Arts@CERN was established in 2011, as part of CERN’s Cultural Policy for Engaging with the Arts. FACT is a media arts centre with three galleries and four film screens. A charity, it opened in 2003, it is part of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio.