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Chris Henschke - 2008 AIR Residency_
Tags physics, light, esp, ars Type Blog
The Australian Synchrotron, opened in 2007, houses a 3GeV third-generation circular synchrotron that accelerates electrons to almost the speed of light. As the electrons are deflected through magnetic fields, they create narrow beams of extremely bright light, which is channelled down beam lines to experimental workstations where it is used for research. Synchrotron light is advancing research and development in fields as diverse as the biosciences, medicine, the environmental sciences, agriculture, minerals exploration, engineering, forensics and the development of advance materials.
Chris Henschke is a Melbourne-based artist who has been working with digital media for the past fifteen years. His main areas of research are in experimental virtual environments and interactive sound installations. Given its symbolic and technological associations to the synchrotron, Chris has chosen to focus his investigations on an incandescent light bulb. He will use the synchrotron’s beam lines to analyse the light bulb at different resolutions and methods, then combine the resultant data to create a series of images, animations, sounds and sculptural forms.
