This year the institute participates again in the Collide project by Arts at CERN,a programme that fosters experimentation through the arts in connection with fundamental research. The focus of Arts at CERN is interactions and dialogues between artists and scientists within the Laboratory. The Collide Residency Awards is run through an annual competition that invites artists to apply with a proposal which will be carried out during residency in both locations: at CERN, Geneva, and at various laboratories and research centres in Barcelona.

The ICC will again welcome the Collide project in the fall of 2021. This year the award has been won by Black Quantum Futurism, a multidisciplinary collaboration between the artists Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips. The duo explores the intersections of futurism, creative media, DIY-aesthetics, and activism in marginalised communities through an alternative temporal lens. Their work focuses on personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience and their expression methods range from writing, music, film, visual art, and creative research projects.

We will present the initiative to the ICCUB members through videoconference:

• Introduction by X. Luri, ICCUB Director
• Arts at CERN and the Collide project, by Monica Bello, Curator and Head of Arts at CERN
• Barcelona involvement in Collide, by Anna Bröll, Directora de Ciència i Universitats, Barcelona City Council
• Video of Black Quantum Futurism
• Open questions