Space, Time and Material: Trajectories between Science and Art
Symposium
Photo: Michael Hoch
How can the insights and data gained from physical research processes—which we often cannot immediately perceive with our senses—be translated into musical and audiovisual forms and dramaturgies? What conceptions of time and space do scientists and artists follow when exploring the microcosm and the macrocosm? What words and narratives do they use to describe, share, and discuss their experiences and perceptions?
The initial spark for this symposium, Space, Time and Material: Trajectories Between Science and Art, came from an excursion to SciArt Dialogue Week 2026 at CERN, in which eight faculty members, researchers, and students from the fields of musicology, art history, philosophy, physics, and religious studies at the University of Graz participated. The inspiring dialogue that began there now continues in Graz. In the workshop What Does “Thinking Outside the Box” Really Mean?, Pablo Garcia Tello highlights ways to break free from ingrained patterns of thought.
An event of the University of Graz (Department of Arts and Musicology as well as interdisciplinary core research area “Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics” at the Faculty of Humanities)
In cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, art@CMS/ORIGIN, CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research (with the experiments ATLAS – A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS, ALICE – A Large Ion Collider Experiment, CMS – Compact Muon Solenoid, LHCb – Large Hadron Collider beauty, and IdeaSquare – Innovation Space at CERN), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Institute 11 Stage Design), Florida State University, and RMIT University