Call for entries: 2021 STARTS prize for science and art projects

The EC will award the STARTS prize to the most pioneering projects that influence or change the way we look at technology and innovative forms of collaboration between the information and communications technology (ICT) sector and the world of art and culture.

Two successful entrants will each receive a cash prize of €20 000 (about $25 000) and prominently feature at the Ars Electronica Centre in Austria and other events of the consortium partners BOZAR, Waag, INOVA+, T6 Ecosystems, French Tech Grande Provence and Frankfurter Buchmesse.

The emphasis of both prizes lies on the creative appropriation and employment of technologies as well as the search for unique constellations of collaboration from the STARTS fields.

Eligibility

This call targets the following:

• Artists.
• Creative professionals.
• Researchers.
• Companies.

The EC accepts the following projects:

• Groundbreaking collaborations and projects that are driven by both technology and the arts. Purely artistic or technologically driven projects are not the focus of this competition.
• All forms of artistic works and practices with a strong link to innovation in technology, business and/or society.
• All types of technological and scientific research and development that have been inspired by art or involve artists as catalysts of novel thinking.
• Projects from new media applications, human-computer interaction, machine learning, biotechnology, art and science, green technologies, material research, smart cities and citizen empowerment, robotics, quantum technology and others.

Note:

• The STARTS prize is not restricted to a particular genre such as media art and digital art.
• For inspiration, entrants are encouraged to explore the winners, honorary mentions and nominations of past years here.

The submission deadline is 3 March.

View the original call here.