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About Us

Ars Scientia aims to facilitate the creative exploration of conceptual frameworks surrounding acts and modes of research, knowledge exchange, and pedagogy across disciplines. Bridging perceived gaps between the two poles of the University’s Main Mall, arts and sciences, was proven to be especially crucial as Canada faced the global COVID-19 pandemic, and as UBC scholars grappled with new modes of learning and relating to each other and their environments. In the collaborative programs created by the Cluster, artists provide new ways of imagining research and knowledge exchange as a dimensional counterpart to the scientific research carried out at UBC. These sites of exchange will be opened to the broader UBC community to engage and test out new ways of learning in a post-pandemic world. Through the development of conversation programs and panel series in tandem with the creation of an ongoing artist residency at the Blusson QMI, the Cluster addresses questions of pedagogical outcomes, interdisciplinary research, and the emergent interstices of art and science.

The cluster took its impetus from the 2021 exhibition at the Belkin, Drift: Art and Dark Matter. Artists in this exhibition reflected on the “how” and “why” of physics and art as diverse and interrelating practices of knowledge.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

UBC VPRI acknowledges that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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