Hybrid Matters: Art and Science as a New Epistemology

Abstract

Why do art and science collaborations matter? Hybrid Matters outlines an epistemological mapping of art and science as an emerging method of interrogation. Through the prism of COVID-19, Warner proposes a paradigm shift driven by care and empathy. In opposition to the notion of art as a vehicle for communicating science, Warner suggests a model in which art and science become mutually reinforcing, discovering alternative pathways of understanding in our relationship with natural ecology and one another.