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Date: October 5, 2024 - December 14, 2024Location
MSU Federal Credit UnionEast Lansing, MI 48824
Tuesday – Saturday | 10:00AM – 5:00PM
311 Abbot (6th floor), downtown East Lansing
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Artist-in-Residence: Abel Korinsky
The inaugural MSUFCU Arts Power Up Artist-in-Residence, Abel Korinsky, of the Berlin-based Studio Korinsky spent three months during spring semester embedded in the 
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a world-unique rare-isotope research facility. From this experience, Studio Korinsky is creating an art installation called Monumentum that will be hosted by the MSU Museum CoLab Studio at 311 Abbot in downtown East Lansing.
ABOUT MONUMENTUM
Monumentum, through an artistic lens, rewrites the monumental portrayal of the creation of humanity, while simultaneously reflecting distinctive aspects of the current state of nuclear astrophysics. Drawing from his engagement with FRIB scientists, Korinsky shares his understanding of the astrophysical and nuclear processes that created all the chemical elements for the Earth and all humans ever born, from the beginning of the Universe in the Big Bang to the ongoing supernova explosions and neutron star collisions.
Though there are still unknown variables in the equations, and current theories form, at best, an incomplete picture of what truly happened, the artists have created a monument based on the best current thought. Monumentum interprets the ways in which FRIB, which hosts one of the most powerful heavy ion accelerators in the world, may shine light on obscure parts of questions about how we came to be.
Using generative tools, the artist maps visual representations of data taken from stars into humanlike forms. Alongside the visualizations, the experience is complemented by immersive audio, that draws on recordings Studio Korinsky made in the experimental site area of the FRIB laboratory and a simulated sound representation of the collisions of neutron stars. It culminates in a moment based on something that happens before the collision, when the neutron stars emit gravitational waves in a frequency that occurs in our hearing range, a remarkable happenstance that further connects us at an emotional level to our universal origins.
Studio Korinsky would like to thank Patrick Taylor, Simon Rydén, Stefan Kwint for support creating the installation, and they also note that scientific supervision was conducted by Pablo Giuliani and Hendrik Schatz.
Read more about the MSUFCU Arts Power Up Artist-in-Residence program in MSU Today.
