Abstract:

We here present the multimedia work "The perfect asymmetry" https://vimeo.com/760330191.

It is an original art installation on the theme of asymmetry in nature. Using emotional suggestions both from real and abstract world, it aims to communicate the thorough role asymmetry has in particle physics, where it explains why all the antimatter created in the first moments after the Big Bang disappeared leaving a universe made just of matter, composing all the galaxies, the stars, and the living beings.

The video contents are generated by a code interacting with the music and sounds, originally composed by the author. In a novel and unique way, the video is projected on the tri-dimensional surface of the KLOE detector, whose elements stands out with the mapping of the video.

KLOE is a particle detector in operation from 1999 to 2018 at the Frascati National Laboratory of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics. It was intended to study and shed light precisely on the asymmetry in the fundamental laws governing particles and antiparticles. The apparatus, now in phase of decommission, is housed in a huge experimental hall and has quite large dimensions, which give it a striking aspect. The public enters in small groups in a dark space, and only through the lightning of the video projector gradually discover the real proportions of the detector, thus enhancing the surprise effect. The video is projected on an area of 10x6 meters and has a duration of almost six minutes. The public stands very close to the exhibition, at a distance of few meters.

During the LNF openday, OpenLabs, in May 2022, it has been seen by about 1000 persons. It has also been shown to several visiting groups, including high-school and university students. In most of these occasions the vision was followed by a guided tour of the KLOE detector and a more didactic explanation of its physics by researchers.

Keywords:

Art, particle physics, asymmetry, video mapping, exhibit.