Chris Henschke is an artist who works with digital and analogue media, sound and light, and experimental science. A key aspect of his practice is cross-disciplinary collaborations, and he has been working with scientists since 1991. He has undertaken a variety of residencies, including an online artist residency at the National Gallery of Australia, 2004; an Asialink residency, 2007; two residencies at the Australian Synchrotron, 2007 and 2010; and a Synapse residency at the CSIRO, 2019.
He has a Doctorate of Philosophy from Monash University (2013-2017), which included on-site work at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, as part of the ‘art@CMS’ collaboration program. He has since developed a cross-disciplinary PhD program with Arts at CERN. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer and researcher at RMIT University, and in 2010 he developed the ‘Art vs Science’ seminar series at the University of Melbourne Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas. In 2012, he produced and presented at the ‘Colliding Ideas – art, society and physics’ symposium, part of the International Conference on High Energy Physics, where the discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced. He has recently published a book on art, science and alchemy, titled “Mudstone”, as part of the “Lost Rocks” series by A Published Event, available here:
https://www.lostrocks.net/books/mudstone-iii
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Season of the Orchid’, an immersive multichannel soundtrack for Donna Kendrigan’s video installation as part of the ‘Handmade Universe’ exhibition at State Library Victoria, 2022-2023; ‘Song of the Phenomena’ and ‘Demon Core’, installations at DARK MOFO, Hobart, Australia, commissioned by DARK MOFO, 2019; ‘Synthesism’, an in-situ installation at the CSIRO in Clayton, Australia, 2019; ‘How Everything Began’, at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2016, opened by Nobel Prize in Physics laureates Peter Higgs and Anton Zeilinger; ‘Circulez’, in-situ at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Switzerland, 2016.
