Representing the Invisible: Translating Dark Matter

The project "Representing the Invisible: Translating Dark Matter" deals with the scientific research on Dark Matter. At the interface of empirical social research and artistic practice the work of Johannes Frauenschuh und Maximilian Gallo focusses on the use of differs medias within the research on Dark Matter, as well as on moments of translation (from one media into another media) and especially on the way knowledge concerning Dark Matter is established within the field of nature science and the public field.

The work (projected video on the inner surface of the dome_tent_environment, duration: 42:28) shows different definitions of truth, nature and science as well as the knowledge generated by selection and questioning.

Within physics, the search for truth is to be understood as a search for regularities, as a process of approaching phenomena in nature and translating them into laws. The visible excerpts of the interviews conducted with researchers at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Vienna who deal with Dark Matter in different ways are only a selected part of a large whole. This work is an approximation from two sides, it shows both our approach to the scientific process (video on the screen, second-order observation, duration: 18:52 min) and the approach of the scientists to their research object.

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