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A lot of sound and light, signifying nothing. That was The Guardians notoriously acerbic art critic Jonathan Joness by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, whose installation Supersymmetry resulted from a stint as artist-in-residence at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva.
Jones concluded that the array of beeps, whooshes, dazzling strobes and light pulses basically seems to be rubbing its head and groaning: Blow me, this is complicated stuff.
And what else should we expect when an artist unschooled in science comes face to face with cutting-edge physics? Art and science, we feel, should…
