They soaked up all they could during their two-month stay in late 2015 and are still processing interviews and materials they’ll use to develop a major work based on their experiences. The physicist laughed when he made that statement, but the artists, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, are comforted by the sentiment. “Because honestly, I cannot explain quantum mechanics even to a scientist.” “I tried to show them how we develop an intuition for quantum mechanics by applying the principles and getting used to the way it functions,” Alvarez-Gaume says. In July they were awarded a CERN residency as part of the Ars Electronica Award. They’ve done multiple short films, museum pieces and festivals all over the world. He recently spent some time demonstrating physics concepts to Semiconductor, a duo of visual artists from England known for exploring matter through the tools and processes of science. That’s why artist residencies at particle physics labs play an important part in conveying their stories, according to CERN theorist Luis Alvarez-Gaume. When it comes to quantum mechanics, it’s easier to show than tell.
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