Collection: Physics & art | symmetry magazine
A physicist, a composer and a creative technician team up to translate the unseen particles around us into a format that human bodies can understand. As part of a class on design thinking, a graduate student turned her research topic into an art installation resembling a giant disco ball. In a recent exhibit, the artist wove fantasy and physics to illustrate the temporal funk of living through a pandemic. In Drift: Art and Dark Matter, pieces by four artists-in-residence dig deep into the underground laboratory. Theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson answers Symmetry writer Brianna Barbu’s questions about his work in science and outreach, including advising on movies like Avengers: Endgame. An art exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin combines art and science to illuminate the invisible nature of dark matter. Fermilab guest composer David Ibbett releases a neutrino-inspired video and commentary. Amy Catanzano bridges the worlds of poetry and science. This summer, physicist Larry Lee ha