ANAT Micro Talk :: Synapse Fellowship

Lunch break brilliance from the ANAT Synapse Fellow and the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

Join us for a short, lunchtime conversation featuring the artist and researchers who undertook the ANAT Synapse Fellowship in 2024, in celebration of 20 years of ANAT Synapse. Our speakers are:

Dr Chris Henschke, Artist, ANAT Synapse Fellowship

+ Prof Mark Boland, Scientist, University of Saskatchewan and Canadian Light Source
+ Dr Michael Hoch, Scientist, CERN - KIT-Karlsruhe Institute for Technology

WHEN:
12 February 2025
12.20pm - 1.00 pm ACDT (Adelaide time) - YOUR LOCAL TIME should be displayed near the top of this page.

WHERE:
Join us online. A link will be provided to registrants prior to the start time.

Tickets

This is a free event. Please consider a donation via the ticket registration.

Future Accelerations & Quantum Expressions

Chris Henschke at the CERN CMS (2014). Photograph by Michael Hoch.

Dr Chris Henschke

Chris Henschke is an artist who works with analogue and digital media, using methods and materials from experimental science, and has undertaken experimental interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists since 1991. Residencies include the National Gallery of Australia, 2004; an Asialink residency at Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, 2007; two residencies at the Australian Synchrotron, 2007 and 2010; and an ANAT Synapse residency with the CSIRO in Clayton, 2018-2019.

Read Chris' Synapse Fellowship creative research journal HERE.

Mark Boland, image courtesy Canadian Light Source.

Prof Mark Boland

Prof. Boland completed a PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a postdoc at Lund University, Sweden. He then became an accelerator physicist and between 2003-2017 helped build and operate the Australian Synchrotron. In 2017, Prof. Boland was appointed as the Machine Director at the Canadian Light Source and a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Awards and honours include a Fulbright Fellowship at Stanford and a JSPS Fellowship in Japan.

Michael Hoch, image courtesy Compact Muon Solenoid.

Dr Michael Hoch

Michael Hoch, born in Vienna, Austria, studied applied physics at the University of Technology Vienna and pursued a teaching degree in physics and sports at the University of Vienna. He conducted doctoral research in particle physics at CERN, where he contributed significantly to the ALICE TPC field cage for the CERN-LHC project and later to the CMS experiment. In 2012, he founded the art@CMS program, followed by the ORIGIN network in 2017, both fostering dialogue between science and art globally.

Host: Melissa DeLaney

A vital focus of the work and practice of her work as the Chief Executive Officer of ANAT, is interdisciplinary partnerships and collaboration. Melissa continues building an international network, mostly interested in participatory forms - this includes residencies, programs and events, strategy, and facilitating spaces for others to connect and be creative, active and social.

ANAT Synapse Fellowship Overview

ANAT Synapse is a residency program that involves Australian research organisations hosting artists in residence to undertake a period of creative research and practice. The program brings artists and researchers together in partnerships that generate new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial beyond both fields.

Since its genesis in 2004, ANAT Synapse has enabled research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists. We have facilitated crossovers between numerous artistic and scientific disciplines over the years – between sound design and ecology, new media and data science, poetry and astrophysics, and many, many others. All genres of practice and fields of study are welcome.

In 2024, ANAT celebrated 20 years of the Synapse residency program by offering the ANAT Synapse Fellowship.

Chris Henschke was awarded Fellow and returned to CERN last year, over a decade after his original 2010 ANAT Synapse residency, to conceptually and materially re-explore the hidden universe beneath Geneva’s pastoral landscape. Reconnecting with long-time collaborators Mark Boland (University of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Light Source), and CERN scientist Michael Hoch, the work culminated in a performance celebrating CERN’s 70th birthday and iconic Dark Matter Day.

Accessibility

This Zoom event will include auto-generated live captioning. We encourage you to advise ANAT of any further accessibility requirements when registering for your ticket. ANAT will endeavour to do all we can to make the event accessible for you.

ANAT Micro Talk will be recorded and the live transcription saved. It will be posted on the ANAT website at a later date.

About ANAT

ANAT is a national network that creates opportunities for experimental artists to collaborate with science and technology partners. We do this because we believe artists are essential to how we imagine and shape our future.

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Banner images clockwise from top: Melissa DeLaney, ANAT CEO, photograph Sia Duff. Mark Boland, image courtesy Canadian Light Source. Michael Hoch, image courtesy Compact Muon Solenoid. Chris Henschke at the CERN CMS (2014). Photograph by Michael Hoch.