- Artist
- Joan Heemskerk
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- 4k Video 35min, variable dimensions
- Artistic Residency
- Collide
In this video work, Heemskerk applies the Hough transform with text derived from interviews with CERN scientists, where a text-to-tex AI is used to search for… no matter
During her residency at CERN, the artist encountered scientists searching for the smallest unknown particles of the universe. This search takes place from deep underground in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the International Space Station (ISS). Recordings on film and terabytes of data are analysed to prove our hypotheses about matter and anti-matter.
In this video work, the artist applies an atypical method to the recordings made at the Laboratory to work out possible connections between particles: the Hough line transform. Originally developed for early particle detectors, this mathematical technique is now used in image analysis, computer vision, and digital image processing. In physics, it detects straight-line patterns in visual data, which enables scientists to reconstruct particle trajectories.
Heemskerk integrates this technique with text from interviews with CERN scientists, where a text-to-text AI is used to search for … no matter.
