Cavendish Arts Science

Events & Exhibitions

Cavendish Arts Science develops and delivers public facing events, exhibitions and programmes.

Read about some of our exhibitions and events

Sonic Ceremony

A presentation of new experimental work in progress by Akeelah Bertram at Girton College and at the Cavendish Laboratory in September 2025, to culminate her year in Cambridge as Cavendish Arts Science Fellow. Created in collaboration with Aron Kyne and artists THABO, Zola Marcelle, Laurie Mompelat and Jabez Walsh, Sonic Ceremony explored collective spiritual and emotional resonances through the participatory act of improvised vocal practice and listening, inviting audience members to engage through testimony, call and response, and spontaneous collaboration.

Ray Dolby Centre opening

Cavendish Arts Science Fellows Ain Bailey and Akeelah Bertram presented new work that emerged from their time immersed in the Department of Physics, at the inauguration of the Ray Dolby Centre in June 2025. Bailey's electroacoustic composition The Cavendish: A Tone Poem filled the atrium with the otherworldly sounds of various labs in the old Cavendish Laboratory site, whilst Bertram presented an installation of screen based point cloud choreography as part of her visual experiments exploring concepts of soul technologies.

Work in progress: Visual experiments exploring concepts of soul technologies (2025), Akeelah Bertram

Maxwell Centre: Bound State

A site specific presentation of new work in progress Bound State by Cavendish Arts Science Fellow Robert Ssempijja, with Q&A

Robert Ssempijja performing in the Maxwell Centre atrium

Girton College: Bound State

Two sharings of new work in progess by Robert Ssempijja exploring real and perceived boundaries, as part of Girton College alumni weekend

Robert Ssempijja performing in Girton College Chapel. Photo: Phil Mynott

Cafe Oto, London

An afternoon of music with DJ sets by Ain Bailey and Remi Graves and new sonic work The Cavendish: A Tone Poem by Ain Bailey with live vocals by Maggie Siôn

Girton College

Two immersive performances of Ain Bailey's new sonic work The Cavendish: A Tone Poem in Girton College Chapel with live experimental vocals by Maggie Siôn and Q&A with the artists

Maggie Siôn

Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory

A presentation of Ain Bailey's new electroacoustic composition The Cavendish: A Tone Poem created in response to her encounters with physics as Cavendish Arts Science Fellow 2023 , with conversation and Q&A

Cyrogenic equipment in a sea of liquid Nitrogen

Cambridge Festival 2023

Sonic Stories a workshop exploring the link between music and memory, with artist and composer Ain Bailey Cavendish Arts Science Fellow 2023 and Gemma Bale, Lecturer in Medical Therapeutics and Head of the Neuro Optics Lab.

Monitoring brain function whilst listening to music. Photo: Neuro Optics Lab

Jesus College, Cambridge

An exploration of Surrealism, Gospel music, and the poetics of Black rhythm, featuring Logan Dandridge in discussion with artist, writer and educator John Cussans.

Candid Arts

A screening of Logan Dandrige's work, followed by a discussion with Bread Theatre and Film Company.

Gallery V

A film screening of Logan Dandrige's work, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Gallery V.

BREAD x CUFA

A screening of Logan Dandrige's experimental film Antiphony at CUFA in May 2022.

Cambridge Festival 2022

A screening of Logan Dandridge's experimental film touching on memory, diaspora and Black futures. Followed by a Q&A session as part of Cambridge Festival.

Into Boundless Space I Leap

Into Boundless Space I Leap featured the interaction of new art, dance and science. The exhibition was a collaboration between the Maxwell Centre and Kettle’s Yard, and it was presented at the Maxwell Centre from April - July, 2016.

The exhibition was conceived by Cavendish Arts-Science Project Director Suchitra Sebastian (Maxwell Centre, Department of Physics) and curated by Guy Haywood (Kettle’s Yard).

Featured artists included: Rana Begum, Laura Buckley, Benedict Drew, Fischli/Weiss, Ulyana Gumeniuk, Issam Kourbaj, Wayne McGregor, Gustav Metzger, Haroon Mirza, Eugenio Polgovsky, Paul Purgas, Hito Steyerl, Mark Titchner and Edward Wilson.