Dark Matter: when art met science

We report on creative collisions on the DESY campus: fifteen artists from all across Germany got together with dark matter hunting scientists from DESY for the research centre's first art-meets-science event ^Dark Matter^. Their works, ranging from a walk-in dark matter experience, a sound installation in the HERA tunnel, photography, installations, paintings and 3-D objects to a real collision, were shown from 13 October to 9 November in test halls, shafts and on campus. They were combined with presentations about science and art and the short film programme ^Dark Matters for the first international Dark Matter Day. The exhibition was a resounding success because it cracked a new target audience (the art crowd) and there are plans for follow-up projects.