Nigel Lockyr is the Director of the Fermi Lab in Chicago and the former Director of TRIUMF at the University of British Columbia. We had a debate on the relationship between the sciences and the arts at Emily Carr University recently . . .

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) has been in the news for the last two years.

It is always a challenge to talk about culture, but in particular to offer by way of discourse something new on a subject that is as old as civilization itself.

So why explore the intersections of human thought and computer programming?

This initial creativity was soon lost in the final version of “Understanding Media published in the 1964. In the book the medium becomes the message through the operations of an instantaneous sensory recognition of meaning.

The context for learning, education and the arts has altered dramatically over the last few years as has the cultural environment for educators and artists/creators.