Missions Statement

The central goal is to actively work on blurring the dividing line of the “Two Cultures” and help usher in a new culture that is overdue – a culture of creative thinkers from the arts and sciences who join together to combine their knowledge and skills to come up with innovations, collaborations and most of all, new ways to help heal this planet.

This artificial division of the arts and sciences is geographical on almost all campuses nationally and internationally, as in UCLA’s North and South, keeping students and faculty physically separated and making it difficult to create natural interactions. Indeed, the word “center” does not seem appropriate for Art|Sci, especially in light of the fact that there are two locations where this initiative is being pursued – the center at the 5th floor of the Broad Art building and the Lab on 5th floor of the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). These mirroring sites will stream live video from the arts to the sciences and vice versa. This year we are planning to employ all the cutting edge communication technologies to network and dialogue on campus and beyond.