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

The Cavendish: A Tone Poem

A new sonic work by Ain Bailey, created in response to her encounters with physics as Cavendish Arts Science Fellow 2023. This new electroacoustic composition incorporates the bleeps, pings, drones and other worldly sounds of different labs and equipment at the Cavendish Laboratory, with live experimental vocals by Maggie Siôn

23 September 2023 at Girton College, Cambridge
28 November 2023 at Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
4 February 2024 at Cafe Oto, London with DJ sets by Ain Bailey and Remi Graves

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.