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  1.   An Ars Scientia collaboration between visual artist JG Mair and physicist Alannah Hallas at Blusson QMI; the two worked together in Hallas’s lab to turn “insightful failures” of high-entropy oxides (a type of quantum material) into an artist’s medium – paint. Photo: Rachel Topham photography
    February 7, 2023

    Artist Talks: JG Mair, Scott Billings and Timothy Taylor

    Artist Talks: JG Mair, Scott Billings and Timothy Taylor Join us for a series of artist talks hosted at UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI). Our current cohort of Ars Scientia artists-in-residence have formed collaborative partnerships with scientists and engineers while embedded at Blusson QMI.

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  2. Student drawing of the concept of entanglement. Depicts a clump of curvy lines with points on them.
    October 20, 2022

    Shifted Thinking

    Shifted Thinking Ars Scientia x UBCQ: Shifted Thinking was held on September 22, 2022; a mini-workshop was done in collaboration with the UBC Quantum Club.

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  3. March 15, 2022

    The Blue and Goldcast, Episode 35: Ars Scientia

    A recent episode of UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Santa Ono's podcast, The Blue & Goldcast, features Ars Scientia. Listen as Prof. Ono speaks to Daniel Korchinski and Josephine Lee about their experience with Ars Scientia and the work that they continue to collaborate over.

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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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