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Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts is part of the larger campus-wide initiative and is open to all CU Boulder students, faculty, staff, campus units and wider community partners.

CU Boulder is home to some of the top arts and Earth-Space science graduate programs in the country, making it an ideal place to foster innovation among these disciplines. NEST seeks to explore the interrelation, generative overlaps, and productive differences between these respective arts-based and science-based disciplines.

NEST fosters projects that question how methodologies within the sciences can inform artists. In turn, what can contemporary art practice reveal about science? How can we use the practice of art to inform the practice of science, and vice versa? What core assumptions in scientific training might be challenged by approaches employed by the arts and humanities?

Erin Espelie (Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts) and Tara Knight (Professor, Department of Critical Media Practices) co-founded NEST in 2017 and partnered with former scholar-in-residence (NEST, Fiske Planetarium, & Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences) to shape the vision at CU Boulder. NEST welcomes new partners and contributors to its cross-campus network of faculty, students, centers and campus units with interest in combining artistic practice and scientific research.