Call for Applications: S+T+ARTS Prize Competition 2023 (€20,000 prize)

The S+T+ARTS Prize 2023 application period is currently open. The European Commission’s S+T+ARTS project promotes partnerships between technological advancement and creative expression.
The S+T+ARTS Prize, part of this effort, honors the most innovative partnerships and accomplishments in the fields of creativity and innovation at the intersections of science, technology, and the arts. Ars Electronica, along with the consortium partners Bozar, Waag, INOVA+, T6 Ecosystems, French Tech Grande Provence, and Frankfurter Buchmesse, announces the S+T+ARTS Prize of the European Commission. Since 2016, the S+T+ARTS Prize competition has awarded more than 200 projects out of 14.291 applications from 96 different countries, awarding a total of €280,000 in prize money.

S+T+ARTS Prize 2023 Priorities:

In its new edition, the prestigious prize not only has an expanded consortium, but also a thematic focus.
The current spotlight lies on cross-sectoral projects investigating the disruptive powers of creative data
and media innovation as well as on works exploring hybrid formats, groundbreaking technologies or
initiatives of storytelling in next generation media. While all outstanding examples of innovative
collaborations and artistic explorations in S+T+ARTS are highly encouraged to submit their works, the
2023 priorities lie on innovative projects:

• that show a novel artistic approach to data.
• that play with immersive technology, interactive media, and related technological
  developments.
• that display a democratization in the use and application of data and content development
  and creation in the media landscape.
• that are involved in user-generated content or metadata, crowdsourcing & co-creation or
  citizen involvement.
• that reveal the potentials as well as risks of the organization of contemporary data systems
  and media interfaces.
• that manifest innovative ways in the unique creation, access and distribution of media
  content & platforms as well as personalized and non-linear storytelling.
• that exhibit new, qualitative approaches as a result of disrupting traditional media.

Prizes:

Two prizes, each with €20,000 prize money, are offered to honor innovative projects at the intersection of
science, technology and the arts: 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
S+T+ARTS fields.

• Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration: honors innovative collaboration between industry or technology and the artistic (and creative) sectors that open up new avenues for innovation.
• Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration: honors artistic research and works whose adoption by the
  arts has great potential to influence or change the use, application, or perception of
  technology.

Eligibility:

• Open to artists/creative professionals or the researchers/companies from around the world;
• S+T+ARTS is not limited to citizens of EU-member states.You can submit:
• Groundbreaking collaborations and projects 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; furthermore, S+T+ARTS is not restricted to a particular genre such
  as media art and digital art.
• All types of technological and scientific research and development that has been inspired by
  art or involves artists as catalysts of novel thinking.
• The jury is looking forward to receiving submissions from a broad variety of fields and
  disciplines. Among others, projects from the areas of new media applications, human
  computer interaction, machine learning, biotechnology, art & science, green technologies,
  material research, smart cities and citizen empowerment, robotics, quantum technology and
  many more are very welcome to apply.

Judging Criteria:

• Quality of the artistic research and its potential influence on technology
• Quality and success of the collaboration between art and technology
• Quality and intensity of the connection to innovation, education, social inclusion or
  sustainability
• Quality and implementation of the European Dimension of the submitted project
• General criteria such as aesthetics, originality, convincing concept, innovation and the
  technique and quality of the presentation

Application:

The submission process for the S+T+ARTS Prize 2023 starts on January 11, 2023 and will end on March 3,
2023.

Click here to apply