HALO by Semiconductor

British artist-duo Semiconductor, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, were selected to imagine the Audemars Piguet Art Commission, in collaboration with guest curator Mónica Bello, curator and Head of Arts at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research). The installation marked the first time an artist is working directly with raw data generated from the ATLAS experiment. Visitors were invited to walk inside HALO, a 10 metres wide, cylinder-shaped construction, with piano wires that stand 4 metres tall surrounding its full circumference. Inside HALO, was a 360-degree screen on which data from a series of proton collisions were projected, informed by raw data from CERN. Semiconductor slowed the collisions down, creating a fantastically visual phenomenon which was readable to the human eye, and which could be understood and admired by all.