HALO AT HARWELL
Step inside the extraordinary world of particle physics
This November, Harwell welcomes HALO, a large-scale immersive artwork by artist duo Semiconductor. It turns real particle collision data from CERN into light, sound and movement.
HALO comes to Harwell as part of the Light Project – a year of events celebrating the campus's 80th anniversary. Harwell has decades of expertise in designing and building particle accelerators and detectors, from instruments used at CERN to the stadium-sized machines on campus: Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.
Save the date
HALO begins at Harwell
The event is now live.
Celebrating 80 years of Harwell Campus
Light Project
HALO is part of the Light Project, a year-long series of imaginative public events that shine a light on the ground breaking discoveries made at Harwell and the bright future ahead.
About Semiconductor
Semiconductor is the UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Over twenty-five years, they have developed a critically engaged, research-led practice that explores the material nature of the physical world through the lenses of science and technology. Their multi-disciplinary works foreground the role of human perception within systems of observation, encouraging us to expand our sense of reality and question our place in the universe.
Their practice is rooted in research from within scientific institutions, including CERN; NASA; the Smithsonian Institution; Charles Darwin Research Centre, Galapagos; the UK Government Office for Science; and the Extreme Light Laboratory, University of Glasgow. These fellowships and residencies enable Semiconductor to investigate the tools, languages, and epistemologies through which science seeks to describe the universe, drawing attention to the ways in which instruments and methodologies shape not only what we know, but how we come to know it.
Credits
HALO was originally commissioned by Audemars Piguet for Art Basel 2018
Curated by Mónica Bello
In collaboration with CERN
HALO was fabricated by millimetre and Polyspace in collaboration with the artists.
Photo/video credits:
HALO, Semiconductor, 2018. Photo credit: Kaleido Shoots
HALO, Semiconductor, 2018. Photo credit: Claudia Marcelloni/CERN
HALO video documentation, Art Basel, 2018
