Photographer Armin Linke is back to CERN as a Guest Artist
Armin Linke is a photographer and filmmaker combining a range of contemporary image processing technologies to blur the border between fiction and reality. Linke indagates the formation – so called Gestaltung - of the natural, technological and urban environment in which we are living. In a collective approach with other artists, curators, designers, architects, historians, philosophers and scientists, the narratives of his works expand on the level of multiple discourses.
On his first day, Linke met Italian physicists Maria and Giuseppe Fideccaro, who started working at CERN in 1956, just two years after it was founded. Giuseppe worked at CERN's first accelerator, the Synchrocyclotron, which operated until 1990. Meanwhile, Maria worked on a novel method to provide polarised proton beams. They still come to the Laboratory almost every day.
Linke has visited CERN several times. In 2000, his photographs of the computer centre showed its material infrastructure and technology, revealing these largely invisible landscapes and capturing CERN's computing history. On this occasion, Linke is back to the Laboratory to explore the question of what makes an image in a data-driven world.