Fermilab debuts in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

On June 29, Fermilab made its debut in the world of contemporary art at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Through August 31, Fermilab will be part of Signatures of the Invisible, an exhibit that features contemporary art inspired by particle physics as well as visually appealing pieces of scientific equipment. Fermilab, in conjunction with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), submitted artifacts from past, present and future particle physics experiments: lead glass from the Charmonium experiment, a FPS module from the DZero experiment and a magnet cross-section for the Large Hadron Collider.

The initiative for this exhibit started in 1999 when a group of 11 contemporary European artists were invited to a yearlong workshop at CERN to create art based upon particle physics research. The workshop resulted in a group of artworks first exhibited at Atlantis Gallery, London; and then at Tshinghua University, Beijing; Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; Gulbenkian Gallery, Lisbon; and now in New York City at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

For more information about the exhibit and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center go to http://www.ps1.org.

More photos and information about Fermilab's contributions to Signatures of the Invisible.