About the SciArt project
SciArt mission
SciArt was established in January 2016, with the objective of triggering innovation in research and bringing together science, art and society. Hosted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science and knowledge service providing independent scientific advice to inform EU policy, the programme enables scientists, artists and policymakers to meet and work together.
We discuss, investigate and explore the wide intersecting plains between art and science, with a shared drive to generate insights that can meaningfully influence our collective life and policymaking.
SciArt process
We broker, curate, and communicate transdisciplinary exchanges among scientists, artists, and policymakers around topics of shared interest. Every two years, these actors meet to explore, dialogue, and sometimes disagree, yet through this process, they discover unexpected affinities in intent, method, and scope despite their differing approaches. Together, they experiment with ways of questioning, investigating, and representing reality.
SciArt outputs
SciArt outpts include a wide range of activities, artefacts, and experiences emerging from collaborations at the intersection of art, science, and policy within the SciArt initiative. They include exhibitions such as NaturArchy, art-science residencies, performances, installations, collaborative projects, and multimedia works, alongside documentation and reflection through catalogues, media archives, and publications that capture the creative and conceptual processes behind them.
More than just final products, these outputs embody a spirit of experimentation, offering a safe haven for speculative exploration, testing ideas, embracing possible failure, and developing new ways in which art and science can jointly engage with and address contemporary societal challenges.
Latest news
The Resonances IV exhibition on the theme of NaturArchy will take place at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, (30 Quai des Charbonnages, Koolmijnenkaai, 1080 Brussels), opening on the 24th May.
The exhibition is being co-curated by JRC SciArt, Claudia Schnugg and Ingeborg Reichle as external curators, and iMAL.
On 11/04/2024 JRC SciArt is participating to the two afternoon working sessions of the Archipelago of Possible Futures Symposium, organised as part of the New European Bauhaus Festival.
Roberto Paci Dalò will present his eBAU book, portraying artists' perspectives on the New European Bauhaus, on the 10/04 at the NEB Antenna section of the New European Bauhaus Festival.
A JRC Publication concerning synergies and potential trade-offs in combating climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as the relevant EU policies and projects, of relevance to the concept of NaturArchy and grounding its artistic and epistemological roots within EU research and policy.
TEDx Talk in Varese on civic sentinels and the intersection of law, activism and art.
Jan Boelen returns to JRC as part of the Belgian Semester, following his Techno Green lecture at the 2022 SciArt Summer School, to discuss transdisciplinary, local and sustainable methods to come close to a real green technology.
Check out artefacts to make future scenarios more concrete and begin critical discussions by the Futures Garden.
Within the scope of the Innovation for place-based transformations. ACTIONbook, practices and tools, art-science collaborations are recognised as tools to help make innovation policies be part of the collective purpose-driven change necessary to achieve place-based transformations.
JRC SciArt organises the first in a series of talks as part of the Leonardo LASER Network on 23/02/2024. The talk will weave through the intricacies of the current situation as to the Rights of Nature, from an artistic, philosophical and governance point of view, within the context of the current NaturArchy curatorial theme and upcoming exhibition.
JRC SciArt is delighted to announce that a scientific paper written as part of the Synocene project has been accepted to the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.