​SCI_ART 2026 Symposium Vancouver
AFTER THE DATA / CULTURAL CLIMATE FUTURES

​Presented by:
The EU Delegation to Canada, UBC Okanagan, Critical Future Studio/Lab,
MOVE37XR, and the Multimodal Media Lab
With support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

​SCI_ART 2026 Symposium Vancouver brings together European and Canadian artists working across art, science, technology, and environmental research. Through three extended artist conversations, live demonstrations, and a closing international exchange, the day considers how artistic research can make complex environmental and technological systems perceptible, create spaces for imagining possible futures, and reshape how environmental transformation is culturally experienced.

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​SCI_ART 2026 Symposium Vancouver

​9:00 am — Arrival and Coffee
9:30 am — Intro and Welcome
Dr. Megan Smith, UBC Okanagan Impact Research Chair in Societal Resilience and Immersive Futures
T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss, educator, interdisciplinary artist and Indigenous ethnobotanist
Bryce Traister, Dean of Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies
Recorded video message from H.E. Geneviève Tuts, European Union Ambassador to Canada

​10:00 am — Making the Invisible Sensible
Ernst Logar (Austria) · Matjaž Tančič (Slovenia) · Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter (Canada)

​11:30 am — Rehearsing Possible Worlds
Carlo De Gaetano (Italy/Netherlands) · Manuela Pauk + Dr. Matija Vigato (Croatia) · Dr. Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Canada)

​1:00 pm — Lunch + Exchange

​2:00 pm — Ecologies of Experience
Serena Marija Akram (Malta) · Paweł Janicki (Poland) · Sylvia Grace Borda (Canada)

​3:30 pm — Break & Open Demos

​SCI_ART 2026 EU–Canada Conversation & Mixer

​4:00 pm — Introduction
Rasa Jautakaite-Tunaitiene, Head of the Regional Team for EU Foreign Policy Instruments covering the Americas

​4:10 pm — After the Data: Art, Science and What Comes Next
Dr. Megan Smith, UBC Okanagan Impact Research Chair in Societal Resilience and Immersive Futures

​4:30 pm — Round Table: Art, Science and Int'l Knowledge Exchange
Dr. James Day · Simon Pribac · Dr. Megan Smith · SCI_ART 2026 Artists

​5:30 – 7:00 pm — EU–Canada Mixer
Hosted by the Delegation of the European Union to Canada