What is the universe made of? How did it start? Physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are seeking answers using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments.
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Anne Sylvie Henchoz & Julie Lang
Artists Anne Sylvie Henchoz and Julie Lang are the recipients of Collide Geneva in 2018 in the category of Performance.
They are current artists-in-residence in the joint project 'Space Time Energy'. In this project they explore experimental formats to interpret fundamental research. By the reappropation of words and to transform their sense in artistic and polymorphic forms (partitions, images, graphics, collage, sound).
Diann Bauer
Diann Bauer is an artist and writer based in London. She works independently and is also part of two ongoing collective projects: the working group Laboria Cuboniks, with whom she wrote Xenofeminism: A Politics of Alienation, and the collaboration A.S.T., whose focus is speculative urbanism and climate change.
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Born in 1965 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Mariele Neudecker lives and works in Bristol, UK. She uses a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, film and photography, and her practice investigates the formation and historical dissemination of cultural constructs around the natural world, focusing particularly on landscape representations within the Northern European Romantic tradition and today’s notions of the Sublime.
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James Bridle is an artist, writer and publisher based in London (UK). His work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one," and has explored aspects of the western security apparatus including drones and asylum seeker deportation.
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The winner of the Collide Pro Helvetia Award 2015 was the collective fragment.in, formed by (from left to right) Simon de Diesbach, Laura Perrenoud, and Marc Dubois. They're a Swiss-based interaction design studio who creates innovative projects, interactive installations, video and game design.
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