After the publication of an article in the CERN Bulletin asking everyone to provide any  audiovisual material to be digitized, a CERN employee pointed out the presence of a special desk full of 24x36mm slides inside a closed storage room.

A few hundreds slides captured in the 80’s during the construction at CERN of the Large Electron Positron collider were found, poorly stored and severely deteriorated. After cleaning and digitization the “decayed slides" have revealed amazing shapes and colours, become incredible pieces of art with a mix of human and natural effects.

Printed on a support that guarantees the longest lifetime (subligraphie on aluminium plates), this artistic collection has already been exhibited at CERN but also inside art galleries in Geneva and New-York.

If you want to discover more about this fascinating 'art by micro-organisms' project, visit the VolMeur web site.