Arts at CERN

Amanda E. Metzger’s practice revolves around network theory, authorship and seemingly unquantifiable data collection. Her work explores how memories are made, measured, shared and generated, with an interest in the possibility of creating a multi-bodied common consciousness. Her practice spans across multiple mediums, such as installations and videos as well as objects and photographs.

During her Connect residency at CERN, Amanda E. Hetzger had the opportunity to be in close dialogue with scientists working on the algorithmic reconstruction of data in relation to particle events, discussing the gap between an event in spacetime and our perception of it. As a result of this research, Amanda E. Hetzger brings our attention to the impossibility of fully reconstructing these events, driven by her fascination for how some information is unaccounted for, opening up to questions how perception shapes reality even at the level of particles, to which reality does the collected data actually belong to, and which discrepancies can emerge when recording, mediating and distributing memories.

𝚫 (delta) takes the form of a website – accessible on mobile phones on https://delta.metzger.love/ – and exists as a soundscape that can be experienced anywhere, unfolding only when four or more people are gathered together in a large space. The work exemplifies her sustained practice of investigating the notion of existing as a decentralised, multi-bodymind that relies on information sharing and the reconstruction of memories. Accompanying the work is a musical composition created in collaboration with Lucien Guy Montandon.

𝚫 (delta) was developed as part of Connect, Arts at CERN’s residency programme in collaboration with Pro Helvetia. The work was first presented at panke.gallery, Berlin, and was on view from April 23 to April 30, 2026.