Dr. Scott Bowering

I am a Vancouver-based visual artist, musician, and educator who has exhibited work in Canada and internationally. My working methods integrate studio and academic research and are informed by an interest in sociomaterial engagement and experimental agency, as both subject matter and working process. I hold a BFA in Visual Arts (University of Victoria), MFA in Studio Arts (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University) and PhD in Educational Theory and Practice (Simon Fraser University). 

My studio practice in printmaking and painting focuses on the relationship between embodied and mechanical forms of production. I am particularly interested in the translation of digital and mechanical reprography into manual and non-specialist material applications in painting and print media.

My doctoral work (2017-2023) explored topics drawn from contemplative inquiry and philosophy of science as ways of understanding the role of dialogue, experience, and collaborative process in arts-related education. In association with this program, I have published peer-reviewed research for Cultural Studies of Science Education (2021) and Religions (2022) and contributed to panel discussions and papers for the Symposium of Contemplative Inquiry Research and Practice (2019-2022), Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Histories Conference (2023), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (2023), and International Philosophy of Education Society Conference (2024). Topics included “Contemplative Practices and New Technologies”, “Jiko/Practice-Realization: Ecological Identity and Material Process”, and presentations on the adaptation of Arne Naess’s experimental semantics to arts education methodology.

My current research focus is at the intersection of postdigital and process-related theory in educational and studio arts practice, including recent articles and encyclopedia entries for the Journal of Postdigital Science Education.