Ariane Koek is an independent arts/science consultant, artistic director, producer and writer. She is also a specialist in artists residency programmes. She initiated and founded Arts at CERN in 2010, designing and directing the 3 strands - Collide international and swiss residencies, Accelerate and Visiting Artists programmes until 2015. Today she is a “recognized world leader in the field of science and art”(Andrea Bandelli, Director of Science Gallery International. She is Senior Arts Advisor to the Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA, Founder and Producer of Earth Water Sky environmental arts and science residencies at Science Gallery Venice, Italy, and Creative Partner on the new Cavendish Arts Science programme, University of Cambridge, UK. In 2020 she is co-curator of Real Feelings: Emotion and Technology at HEK, Basel, Switzerland which opens Mays 27th, and Backlight – the Nordic Photography Triennale held in Tampere, Finland September 2020. Her book Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination featuring essays by Philip Ball, Gavin Parkinson, Carlo Rovelli and Nicola Triscott was published by Hatje Cantz/Bildmuseet Autumn 2019 Email: ariane [at] arianekoek.com
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by Ariane Koek The architect Sou Fujimoto thinks of space as ‘densities’ and says architecture ‘is like handling the densities of the air’ “An endless sea of possibilities…of particles jumping in and out of existence” – that’s the description of space by the physicist Bilge Demirköz, who helped build the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) detector…