Sci_Art 2026

SCI_ART BC 2026 brings together artists, scientists, researchers, and cultural practitioners from Canada and Europe to explore how art can help us understand and imagine our changing world. Under the theme After the Data / Cultural Climate Futures, the festival explores climate systems, ecological change, emerging technologies, and Northern research through immersive, embodied, and critically engaged artistic practices. From biotechnology and microbial ecologies to AI, photography, mixed reality, and more-than-human intelligence, the participating artists use art not simply to represent complex systems, but as a form of research, experimentation, and inquiry. Taking place across Vancouver and Kelowna from October 1–8, 2026, SCI_ART creates a space where artistic and scientific knowledge meet—opening new conversations about how we sense, interpret, and collectively imagine the futures ahead.
Carlo De Gaetano (Netherlands) is an artist-researcher and information designer working with the Visual Methodologies Collective at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. His practice uses fiction, audiovisual archives, and participatory methods t

Carlo De Gaetano (Netherlands) is an artist-researcher and information designer working with the Visual Methodologies Collective at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. His practice uses fiction, audiovisual archives, and participatory methods to explore relationships between humans and more-than-human worlds. His current Professional Doctorate, Rising Tides, Shifting Imaginaries, investigates participatory climate fiction-making and alternative futures for living with water and other beings in a changing climate.

Ernst Logar (Austria) is an artist and researcher based in Vienna whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, film, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, his work has examined power structures and historical, sociocultur

Ernst Logar (Austria) is an artist and researcher based in Vienna whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, film, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, his work has examined power structures and historical, sociocultural, and ecological phenomena. From 2019–2025, he led Reflecting Oil, an interdisciplinary artistic research project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna developed with petroleum engineers, remote-sensing researchers, and international scholars, examining crude oil and the cultural conditions of the petromodern era.

Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher based in Alberta. Her practice explores ecology, technology, perception, and more-than-human intelligence through installation, bio-art, sound, experimental media,

Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher based in Alberta. Her practice explores ecology, technology, perception, and more-than-human intelligence through installation, bio-art, sound, experimental media, and research-creation. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University and has exhibited and undertaken residencies across Canada and internationally. Recent projects explore lichen, wetlands, living systems, environmental sensing, and machine learning as forms of ecological collaboration.

Matjaž Tančič (Solvenia) is a lens-based artist working between Slovenia and China, exploring the intersections of documentary, portraiture, and art photography. He is particularly known for experimental 3D stereography and socially engaged photograp

Matjaž Tančič (Solvenia) is a lens-based artist working between Slovenia and China, exploring the intersections of documentary, portraiture, and art photography. He is particularly known for experimental 3D stereography and socially engaged photographic projects. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Somerset House, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Auckland Triennale. His work has received multiple awards, including a Sony World Photography Award.

Pawel Janicki (Poland) is an artist whose practice draws on contemporary and media art, music, posthumanist thought, and the history of ideas. He works across programming, synthetic senses, spatial and material engineering, and experimental systems t

Pawel Janicki (Poland) is an artist whose practice draws on contemporary and media art, music, posthumanist thought, and the history of ideas. He works across programming, synthetic senses, spatial and material engineering, and experimental systems to construct forms that move beyond established artistic conventions. His practice brings technological experimentation into dialogue with historical and contemporary contexts, exploring how changing tools, systems, and modes of perception can reshape artistic thinking and experience.

Serena Marija Akram (Malta) is a transdisciplinary STEM researcher, new media artist, and technology entrepreneur, and Founder of Sanctuary of Creation, a hybrid deep-tech research and innovation lab. Her practice translates environmental and physiol

Serena Marija Akram (Malta) is a transdisciplinary STEM researcher, new media artist, and technology entrepreneur, and Founder of Sanctuary of Creation, a hybrid deep-tech research and innovation lab. Her practice translates environmental and physiological data into immersive, neuroadaptive environments, exploring technology as a medium for wellbeing, climate consciousness, and social impact. She is an Art & AI Fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar and has participated in UKRI’s Health & Care Innovations programme and the WHO/Europe Public Health Innovation Platform.

Sylvia Grace Borda (Canada) is a media arts practitioner whose work connects regenerative contemporary art, climate engagement, place, and community narrative. A recipient of the Lumen Prize and Mozilla Foundation’s Rise25 Award, she has exhibited in

Sylvia Grace Borda (Canada) is a media arts practitioner whose work connects regenerative contemporary art, climate engagement, place, and community narrative. A recipient of the Lumen Prize and Mozilla Foundation’s Rise25 Award, she has exhibited internationally, including at the National Galleries of Scotland, Belfast Exposed, Surrey Art Gallery, and the 61st Venice Biennale. Her practice combines immersive media, photography, mapping, and satellite technologies to create observational artworks addressing climate change and our relationship with nature.

Dr WhiteFeather Hunter (Canada) is an internationally recognised artist and researcher working at the intersections of feminist theory, biotechnology, and performance. PhD in Biological Art from SymbioticA, University of Western Australia. SSHRC Post

Dr WhiteFeather Hunter (Canada) is an internationally recognised artist and researcher working at the intersections of feminist theory, biotechnology, and performance. PhD in Biological Art from SymbioticA, University of Western Australia. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University. Recent project Sentient Clit — The Pussification of Biotech nominated for the Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize (2024). Collaborates with leading biolabs including the Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine and the DZNE German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.