Hybrid of science and art:

2021 Major Breakthrough of Science and Technology Art Poster Exhibition

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein stated it in the Living Philosophies, appreciating the sense of beauty that the combination of science and art brings.

(Poster of the exhibition, made by the Art and Science Center of USTC)

To embrace such a “beauty”, the 2021 Major Breakthrough of Science and Technology Art Poster Exhibition of USTC was launched at the USTC 1958 Café. Co-hosted by the Art and Science Center of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the School of Design of Nanjing University of the Arts (NUA), 10 posters are featured in the exhibition. To note, those posters are inspired by the academic papers published in Nature and Science in 2021, and the scientists from USTC are the main contributors to the papers.

It is not the first collaboration between art and science, and USTC is no doubt moving in the fast lane as well. The partnership between the Art and Science Center of USTC and the School of Design of NUA has been established to search for greater opportunities of lighting up the sparks of science and art. In detail, the cooperation between the two will be performed as joint teaching, creation, exhibition, and other activities.

Entitled “The Beauty of Science, the Visualization and Design Workshop”, this exhibition is debuting as its first series. The workshop originated from an idea put up by the teachers from the Art and Science Center of USTC and the School of Design in NUA, to jointly guide the students of NUA to apply their professions in art design to visualize the cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements of the USTC. By doing so, the specialties in both schools could be extended to their fullest and benefit the others who are interested in art and science.

The exhibition is a practical and innovative case for the cooperation between colleges with different specialized orientations in the integration of art and science. It also offers a panoramic perspective to promote the public understanding of science in a more visualized and figurative way.

（Written by ZHU Yuqi, edited by LI Xiaoxi, USTC News Center）