NEWS
January 24, 2022
THE ANNUAL STARTS PRIZE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AWARDS THE MOST PIONEERING COLLABORATIONS AND RESULTS AT THE NEXUS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS.
Two prizes, each with €20,000 …
January 21, 2022
AI and Music Festival 2021
“Rather than feeling constrained by Artificial Intelligence, musicians take the approach of using it as a tool that brings new creative …
October 29, 2021
MediaFutures concluded the first support programme with an online Demo Day where all projects from the first cohort showcased their projects and artworks.
October 28, 2021
The UK National Commission for UNESCO and PRAXIS at the University of Leeds (UK) released this month this brief report as part of the wider …
October 26, 2021
The Better Factory initiative selected the 7 best international teams from its 1st Open Call. During the Jury Day that took place the past 1st …
October 15, 2021
VYX will be the world’s first non-screen-based prescriptive wearable solution to empower healthy living and give users control and stimulants to persist in their vital …
October 12, 2021
The project will design and implement grants to support the music ecosystem to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. To know which kind of support fits …
STARTS4Water announces winners of open call for 10 artist residencies addressing new water realities
October 4, 2021
10 artists or artistic collectives have been chosen for the STARTS4Water residencies that will kick-start a series of collaborative processes and generate projects that raise …
September 3, 2021
This autumn brings the launch of a new and exciting open call. Our 12 Regional STARTS Centers, including some of Europe’s leading cultural and art …
September 1, 2021
Join this masterclass with fashion designer Karim Adduchi and discover how one drawing connected hundreds of people worldwide.
July 16, 2021
On June 30th at OGR Torino were announced the two winners of the first STARTS Prize for Social Good, supported by Fondazione CRT in collaboration …
July 5, 2021
MediaFutures is a project characterized by encouraging the collaboration of actors with, apparently, different interests to tackle shared societal challenges. If we take a look …
July 5, 2021
A look into human-centered innovation and STARTS Prize ’21 with User Manual for Digital Humanists. User Manual for Digital Humanists is a new series hosted …
July 1, 2021
One key element of the STARTS Initiative is a prestigious award generously endowed with €40,000 in prize money: each year, a yearly competition is held …
June 2, 2021
Explore the Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Responses Archive Creativity often flourishes in stressful times because innovation evolves out of need. During the coronavirus pandemic, we are …
May 21, 2021
King’s College London, Cellule Studio and Maastricht University develop mobile app to record the sound of a beating heart.
May 3, 2021
MediaFutures selected seven projects from the ‘Startups for Citizens’ and ‘Startup meets Artist’ tracks to join the five ‘Artists for Media’ projects to continue on …
April 30, 2021
The international call for projects launched by LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS for the next edition of Nemo, Digital Arts Biennial of the Île-de-France Region, was centred on …
April 16, 2021
As an emerging field in the creative economy, wearable technologies and e-textiles “are typically used together in the fashion industry to create garments which are …
April 12, 2021
Forbes has just released an article, by Benjamin Wolff.
April 8, 2021
An inspiring and successful 3-year collaboration between S+T+ARTS and Jessica Smarsch has been achieved thanks to the support of WEAR Sustain and Re-Fream, two EU …
April 1, 2021
A new STARTS project starts in April! Bringing together art, technology and science, STARTS4Water aims to tackle one of the most pressing challenges of …
April 1, 2021
Start of MediaFutures support programme – the first 19 projects receive funding, mentoring and training to develop innovative ideas to tackle misinformation using data
March 26, 2021
WOW Zone, 0 and Maenadeart are three of the projects selected for STARTS in MOTION 2021, that started at the beginning of the month. We …
March 18, 2021
BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE is the new podcast from Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Leonardo/ISAST exists to create a community for transdis…
March 11, 2021
Feminism and diversity. Questioning womanhood and post-colonial spaces A glimpse into 3 art-tech projects selected for S+T+ARTS in MOTION!
March 5, 2021
In february, Diversion cinema, in collaboration with CENTQUATRE-PARIS will bring Virtual Reality to Parisians homes.
March 5, 2021
MediaFutures is an innovation project supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme that aims at contributing to high-quality media activities. It …
March 5, 2021
We are Project: GALATH3A, fem-tech, design duo. Our work designs and develops woman-machine collaboration. Together with a UR5 robotic arm named Gala (short for Galatea), …
March 1, 2021
Scientists and artists are working together as never before, finds a Nature poll. Both sides need to invest time, and embrace surprise and challenge.
February 26, 2021
On the up! We are very glad to announce the selection of twenty-three extraordinary teams for the second edition of STARTS in MOTION!
February 3, 2021
Nesta Italia, one of the STARTS Regional Centers, is pleased to announce the winners of the STARTS Open Call “City of the future”!
February 3, 2021
On 18th January, the Commission launched the design phase of the New European Bauhaus initiative. This design phase will lead to the opening of calls …
January 7, 2021
The STARTS Lighthouse RE-FREAM has recently announced the 10 awarded artists and designers of its 2nd open call. Together with RE-FREAM’s community of scientists, they …
December 21, 2020
Russell Perkins is the laureate of the S+T+ARTS residency ‚Urban mobility, exploring new imaginaries‘, promoted within the Regional STARTS Centers, by Fondation Fiminco and the …
December 3, 2020
REWATCH THE WEBINAR
December 3, 2020
Interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts and sciences can create friction and uncertainty. Re-watch the discussion promoted by the University of Wolverhampton’s STARTS Methodologies research…
November 30, 2020
Discover the findings of the first Regional STARTS Centers edition gathered in this publication.
November 18, 2020
The project Arts Formation has recently published three reports exploring the role of arts in enterprises, digital transformation and their social and civic impact.
November 4, 2020
In September, STARTS hosted a talk at this year’s edition SONAR+D focusing on the potential for innovation in urban planning by including artistic strategies, artists …
November 4, 2020
In a recent Press statement, the European Commission’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, presented “The New European Bauhaus” movement. It is intended to be a …
October 23, 2020
The partners of the STARTS Residency/VERTIGO ‚Magic Lining‘ have published a new article. Discover it here!
October 15, 2020
Janus is a video installation which retraces part of the questioning that the artist Stéfane Perraud set up during the exchanges that he had during …
October 13, 2020
Watch the video summarizing the experience of Cédric O at the Regional S+T+ARTS Centers exhibition ‚VISIBLE SENSIBLE‘ (18 Sept – 04 Oct).
October 9, 2020
A new interactive documentary called ‚How Normal Am I‘ let’s you experience how AI judges your face. Try it yourself!
September 30, 2020
The research project Re-FREAM is exploring the interaction between the domains of fashion, design, science, craft and technology, promoting a space for co-creation and co-research, …
September 22, 2020
AT S+T+ARTS, we accompany many teams of artists, technologists and researchers who have at heart to deliver a message and impulse critical thinking through their …
September 21, 2020
Dear S+T+ARTS community! I am planning an interactive concert installation in which personalized songs are sung to people as a gift. For this purpose, the …
September 21, 2020
The Nossa Senhora da Saúde da Trafaria Fort will be rehabilitated to accommodate the installation of the Institute of Arts and Technologies (IAT) of the …
September 17, 2020
What kind of world do we want to live in? How can we nurture and preserve it, whilst ensuring social and economic progress? What is …
September 8, 2020
Following the success of its first edition, the AIxMusic Festival returns in 2020 with a programme focusing on the latest research and artistic practices developed …
September 8, 2020
STARTS Prize has launched not one, but two catalogues! The catalogues offer an overview on what is the STARTS Prize, how it is organised, its …
September 8, 2020
The Festival Organisation has recently launched the festival catalogue, gathering and providing an overview of the 120 Gardens that are being organised. Consult the catalogue …
September 3, 2020
The arts have a major role to play in the fairness of our technological future. When Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri watched an episode of the …
September 2, 2020
A new blog article by Analog to Connected for RE-FREAM project. We are nearing the end of the first Re-FREAM grant, an opportunity for artists …
August 28, 2020
New machine learning techniques being pioneered at the major visual effects studios promise to transform the visual effects industry in a way not seen since …
August 27, 2020
Margaret Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex and advisor to the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, believes …
August 14, 2020
Get to know the ten works that will be exhibited during STARTS Prize 2020.
August 6, 2020
‚Art for me is humanity´s capacity of imagination’, says Rafik Anadol, media artist, machine learning pioneer and passionate of science fiction. Some say he is …
July 31, 2020
Author: Asmaa Youssef Mohammed Elmongi
July 31, 2020
At the intersection of art, science, and technology, the book Being Material explores the worlds of materialities and materialisms today.
July 30, 2020
The textile Research Institute from Valencia (SP) is part of HYBRID project, that will increase knowledge for the application of electronic inks with organic materials …
July 29, 2020
Today, we stand on the edge of a new era, powered by 5G, Industrial IoT and quantum computing. The challenge for the European Parliament, and …
July 28, 2020
The STARTS ECOSYSTEM partners released the first S+T+ARTS collaboration toolkit. Collaboration between scientific, technological and artistic domains is gaining traction through the world, but actu…
July 26, 2020
For Europe to remain competitive internationally, all economic sectors must be able to reap the benefits of digital transformation. Building on a European network of …
July 24, 2020
The Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells launches its first Artist in Residence Program, bringing together Anna Dumitriu (the artist of STARTS Residency ‚Cyber-Species Proximity‘), …
July 24, 2020
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, …
July 8, 2020
Dominique Peysson, the artist of the STARTS Residency ‚Suspended Moment‘, is organising a podcast that talks about contemporary art, together with her daughter Clémentine.
July 7, 2020
Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Issues in Science and Technology magazine and Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, …
July 7, 2020
Nxt Museum to open in Amsterdam on 29 August with immersive installations by pioneering artists, designers, technologists and scientists.
June 25, 2020
On Friday, 19th June, 21 finalists presented their projects to a jury composed of representatives of cultural institutions and companies. Five projects won scholarships of …
June 17, 2020
Three members of the STARTS Prize 2020 jury, Mara Balestrini, Clara Blume and Domhnaill Hernon, talk in an interview about the influence of Covid-19 on …
June 9, 2020
Andrea Ling and Olga Kisseleva win STARTS Prize 2020
And the winners are…
STARTS Prize 2020 – Artistic Exploration:Design by Decay, Decay by Design / Andrea Ling …
June 1, 2020
The Interreg Project, RegionArts, published a second policy booklet, now addressing measures and initiatives that encourage relationships between artists and ICT and analyses the potential …
May 29, 2020
In this interview, the artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May speak about the outcomes of their STARTS Residency ‚Cyberspecies Proximity‘ with Schindler Group.
May 22, 2020
Exciting group sessions are coming this month! Since the kick-off session of the STARTS in MOTION programme on May 6th with Silvia Zancarli, the 8 …
May 18, 2020
Content4All, the Tech Project of the STARTS Residency ‚Muted‘, received the prestigious Technology Innovation Award at the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference.
May 14, 2020
We have been delighted to co-host a new meetup with OFundamentO to talk about digitization and sustainability in the textile industry.
May 14, 2020
Leonardo/ Olats published a series of podcasts resulting from the ‚All Women Crew‘ 2020 workshop, which celebrates women in Art, Astronautics and Astronomy.
May 14, 2020
A collaboration between A.I expert from the Flemish University of Brussels (Luc Steels) and the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans. Luc Tuymans and Luc Steels, in …
May 14, 2020
María Castellanos y Alberto Valverde (aka uh513) from the STARTS Residency ‘The Plants Sense’ were selected to exhibit their artwork at the online exhibition ‘LA …
May 4, 2020
We are very glad to announce the selection of eight incredible teams for the first edition of STARTS in MOTION! The programme has been designed …
April 6, 2020
The designer Giulia Tomasello (Winner of STARTS Prize) published recently a chapter in collaboration with the researcher Teresa Almeida.
April 1, 2020
The pibinko.org is a network, operating since 2007, on interdisciplinary projects for the protection and promotion of lesser known assets in the fields of culture, …
March 26, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, Creative Capital has created a list of resources for artists working in all disciplines, as well …
March 26, 2020
WearSustain Team launched a survey to assess its professional, societal, economic and environmental impacts.
March 26, 2020
The artist of STARTS Residency ‚Cyber-Species Proximity‘, Anna Dumitriu, is participating in a new project that uses health data as the source of experiential stories …
March 26, 2020
ECBN is calling for everyone’s contribution to assess the potential impact of COVID-19 in CC industries in order to be able to formulate current support …
March 25, 2020
The world is living an unprecedented situation due to COVID-19 outbreak. This crisis leads us, in the frame of the STARTS initiative, to reflect on …
March 13, 2020
Magic Lining is one of the teams awarded with by a STARTS RESIDENCIES project. Kristi Kuusk, artist designer, has collaborated with the tech project Magic …
March 10, 2020
Our first STARTS G I V E A W A Y has been launched yesterday on Instagram to thank you all for your support!
March 9, 2020
Under the Motto “Re-Think Fashion,” the Re-FREAM projects’ progress were presented as a part of Mercedes Fashion Week Madrid, which took place at Madrid, Spain, …
March 9, 2020
On the International Women´s Day, we want to praise all the women, and in particular the artists and partners of the #startseu community.
February 25, 2020
Challenging the City Walls [Report] Harnessing Digital Media to Disseminate Culture throughout Milan’s Quartieri Challenging the City WallsCharrette 5-6th December 2019 MEET Digital Culture Centre …
February 25, 2020
Toward an European human AI powered by arts?
February 17, 2020
João Martinho Moura and Yury Kolen´ko publish paper on Sci-fi Miners We are thrilled to share this news! During one year, the artist from Braga …
November 22, 2019
Denise Doyle interviews BeAnotherLab Empathy VR Collective in Barcelona 8th November 2019Last month Dr Denise Doyle, Project Lead for ‘Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies’ met …
October 29, 2019
Next November 5th, STARTS will participate in the 5th exchange of experience organised by the RegionArts project.
October 14, 2019
7th October 2019Earlier this year a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK (Dr Denise Doyle (Project Lead), Dr Richard …
October 1, 2019
On 20 September, STARTS has participated in NEXT Conference, in Hamburg — Germany. Each year, NEXT intends to provoke questions on digital transformation by introducing …