Arts at CERN

Adriana Knouf works as an artist, writer, musician, and xenologist

She attunes herself to electromagnetic frequencies, studies the interferences of temporalities future, past, and present, and experiments with entities bio, silico, litho, and cosmic. She is the Founding Facilitator of the tranxxenolab, a nomadic artistic research laboratory that promotes entanglements among entities trans and xeno. Adriana regularly presents her artistic research around the world and beyond, including a work that has flown aboard the International Space Station.

Her work has been recognized by a number of awards, including an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (2021), an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica (2005), BCS Futures Award Longlist selection as part of the Lumen Prize (2023), an Honorary Mention from the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Research Award (2021), and as a prize winner in The Lake’s Works for Radio #4 (2020). She additionally performs with her modular synthesiser as Selestra, and designs and sells modular synthesiser modules through her company selestium modular.