CERN launches Cultural Policy
CERN launches Cultural Policy Geneva, 4 August 2011. Today CERN 1 launches its cultural policy for engaging with the arts. Called 'Great Arts for Great Science', this new cultural policy has a central strategy - a selection process for arts engagement at the level of one of the world's leading research organizations. "This puts CERN's engagement with the arts on a similar level as the excellence of its science," said Ariane Koek, CERN's cultural specialist. CERN's newly appointed Cultural Board for the Arts will be the advisers and guardians of quality. It is made up of renowned cultural leaders in the arts from CERN's host-state countries: Beatrix Ruf, Director of the Kunsthalle Zurich; Serge Dorny, Director General of the Lyon Opera House; Franck Madlener, Director of the music institute IRCAM in Paris. Geneva and CERN are represented by Christoph Bollman of ArtbyGenève and Michael Doser, an antimatter scientist.
