EVENTS 2020

A new annual festival format in San Francisco, CA, between September 10-13, 2020! Born out of a global crisis, “The Grid: Exposure – Art + Tech + Policy Days” explores innovative ways to reconnect the world in our current state of isolation. Exposure is The Grid’s new annual festival format, an art + tech expo […]

Taking inspiration from the Hieronymous Bosch painting’s central panel “Garden of Earthly Delights”, and the Ars Electronica 2020 meta-topics of ecology, democracy, uncertainty, humanity, reality, and autonomy, the UK Garden will act as a unifying community celebration of amazing art-tech/art-science collaborations showcased from the North to South of the UK. STARTS Prize 2020 winners, runners-up, nominees, and other STARTS projects (Residencies, Lighthouse projects) will be

During lockdown, Leonardo and S+T+ARTS collaborated to exchange and reflect, together with their wider communities, on how COVID-19 is impacting Art-Science/Art-Technology innovation and co-creation, and how they can support new connections and collaborations. The topics covered included: Global response to climate disaster Lens on the non-human – how are we addressing consumption, right of the

Founded by the artists Maria Almena, Oliver Gingrich and Aphra Shemza, ART IN FLUX is a charitable organisation committed to furthering the development of the media arts community in the UK. Through talks events, performances, workshops and exhibitions, FLUX brings these ideas to the wider public – providing a fluid platform to discuss strategies, processes

Together with Studio Samira Boon, Waag’s Textile Lab is organising the second meetup for LABS: Future Interiors. The speakers for the second symposium within the series of three will be announced soon. How can we make our indoor climate healthier by developing new materials from living organisms? And what role can designers and architects undertake to contribute to

Modern biotechnology is developing very quickly. In Prometheus’ footsteps, we use new biological tools to transform our healthcare and wellbeing. In the future, researchers may develop personal medications and therapies that stop us feeling fatigue or pain, or babies with the DNA of three people that may have been made resistant to COVID19. But these

THIS IS A SOCIALLY DISTANCED EVENT IN LONDON Expanded Animation at Ars Electronica presents Synaesthetic Syntax: Sounding Animation / Visualising Audio, a one-day symposium that brings together animators, musicians, artists, technologists and academics to discuss the interrelationships between audio and animation. Papers cover topics such as synaesthetic connections between sound and image, the role of

The Festival is an intimate annual celebration of imagination and experimentation. The first annual Untitled festival will be held 17–18 September 2020 online and in Helsinki. We focus on the transformation and align action with unlikely allies. UNTITLED and S+T+ARTS are proud to have the artists Kasia Molga and Larisa Blazic participate as S+T+ARTS ambassadors to our first annual

Observe, Imagine, Build the City of the Future We are very pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition “VISIBLE SENSIBLE” at Fondation Fiminco, in Romainville (Grand Paris), from September 18th through October 4th, as part of Regional STARTS Center program, co-organized by French Tech Grande Provence and Fondation Fiminco. Today, 55% of the world’s population lives

The first edition of the STARTS in MOTION programme is almost coming to an end, but we couldn´t let the teams go without exploring further the world of public funding! Within this session, participants will be provided with tailor-made info on the types of grants that match the art-science and art-tech projects. In particular, EU