When scientists at CERN announced that they had finally discovered the elusive Higgs Boson, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) - among the protagonists of the discovery which involved thousands of scientists and more than a billlion euro investment in the ATLAS project directed by italian INFN research physicist Fabiola Gianotti - wanted to popularize the importance of this achievement in public events.

 

The INFN Communication Dept. decided to realize an interactive installation based on the original idea of making possible the experience of ‘massification’, that is to live the “impossible” experience of acquiring your own mass, and asked the embrio.net collective to realize it.

embrio.net collective, in collaboration with artist-programmer Paolo Scoppola, developed an interactive platform on which it would have been possible to give a shape to the original idea. The result is a mind-blowing experience of seeing and hearing your self dancing with your particles until you see your mass forming.

 

The #GiftOfMass audio-visual Installation doesn’t try to explain what the Higgs Boson really is, but it rather creates an inspiring environment where everyone can create his own representation of one of the aspects - maybe the most fascinating - of this incredible discovery. 

 

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International Exhibitions:

 

• Athens Science Festival - 06-12.04.2016