To many, science and art are the classic examples of never-the-twain-shall-meet.

One is viewed as hard, one as soft. One as methodically precise, one as creatively unpredictable. If you were taking a flight of fancy, you might say one is the fastidious Felix, the other the free-living Oscar.

At UCLA, there is even a geographical divide: South campus is home to the university's prestigious institutions for the study of physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, psychology, mathematical sciences and health-related fields, as well as the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. But north campus, where students walk amid world-class sculptures to classes in the Italianate buildings that first housed the university, is home to the highly respected arts and humanities programs.

Biology postdoc Christina Agapakis turned microbes in a petri dish into art.

A good-natured rivalry has existed between north and south since Bruin time immemorial. A few years ago, the Daily Bruin published a humorous student essay claiming that north campus students "use our minds to analyze situations, literature, history and so on" while south campus students "use their minds to compute."

But the boundary between art and science has never been rigid. Think of the study of patterns, for example: Where does the science end and the art begin? This has never been truer than today, when technology has enabled cutting-edge artistic expression and when art increasingly inspires science-related feats of wonder.

Biology postdoc Christina Agapakis turned microbes in a petri dish into art.

Vesna says that, during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, a need for specialization temporarily pulled apart science and art. Instead of crafting a whole shoe in one day, for example, a worker would paste on hundreds of soles a day, then heels, and so on. Today there is a return to a holistic way of looking at the workings of arts and industries.

"What I am trying to do with the Art | Sci Center and my classes, and also with my artwork, is show the very natural marriage of science and art," she said.

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