Ariane Koek is an international consultant, producer, curator and writer on arts, science, technology, and the initiator and first director of Arts at CERN. She is on the cultural advisory boards of European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland) the Edgelands Institute (Harvard University/Geneva), and Science Gallery Venice, for whom she created and produces Earth Water Sky residency programme. She is Creative Partner of The Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA and Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University, UK.