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Nature 439, 664 (9 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439664a; Published online 8 February 2006
Science in culture: Nuclear-powered image
Alison Abbott1
In Ken McMullen's six-minute video loop Lumen de Lumine, filmed in an abandoned particle-accelerator tunnel at CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory in Geneva, a dancer in a cadmium-red dress swings a light bulb above her head, slowly letting out its flex.At first she controls the bulb's movement, but as the flex lengthens, the bulb's increasing momentum is transferred to her body, which sways rhythmically to maintain balance.
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