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Collaboration between Science and Technology and the Arts: STARTS in H2020 WP2016-2017

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    Ralph Dum
    15 December 2015 - updated 4 years ago
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The catalytic role of the Arts for innovation is acknowledged in the WP2016-2017 in a variety of ways. See WP2016-2017.

This discussion gives an overview of the various actions and shall also act as a means for potential partners to find each other.

(a) There is a general policy around STARTS as expressed in header of WP2016-2017:

'The exchange of skills of artists and creative people with entrepreneurs and technologists will also be promoted. In the ICT area in particular, the STARTS (S&T&ARTS) activity will push for silo-breaking research and innovation practices via collaboration between Science and Technology and the Arts. STARTS will encourages Horizon 2020 projects to dedicate, whenever appropriate, resources to artistic and other creativity-enhancing practices for instance for exploration of technological limits via art installations, developing unexpected uses of technology, testing of unusual technical solutions, and for working on social acceptance.'

(b) There are various topics in WP2016-2017 that have taken up STARTS ideas

  • In WP2016-2017 5.i  (ICT programme) several topic encourage inclusion of artists in their activities
    • ICT 12b Net innovation
    • ICT 32a Start-up Europe for Growth and Innovation Radar
    • ICT 22b                 Technologies for Learning and Skills (here links between technology and the Arts are promoted on education level)
  • In  WP2016-2017 point 17 , the topic on Internet of things ( in particular IoT-01-2016: Large Scale Pilots  pilot 3 on wearables) encourages inclusion of artistic practices.

(c) ICT-36-2016: Boost synergies between artists, creative people and technologists (See again WP2016-2017 5.i  )

The topic 36  is dedicated to establishing the communities the link artists/creatives and industry/technology.  The three subtopics will have each one project funded.

  • 36 a. Innovation Action will establish a structured dialogue between creative people and technologists and in particular finance small projects that work on concrete prototypes emerging from creative-technology collaborations
  • 36.b. Coordination and support actions that will
    • provide brokerage services to establish links and finance inclusion of artists with technology.
    • A STARTS prize (two times 20K EUR per year) to be handed out yearly via a prestigious institution in the art –technology world.

These three actions complement and reinforce each other.

A background on STARTS and its history can be found on the europa website and on the ict art connect website.

The FAQ's relative to the STARTS Call ICT 36b are available here.

This is your space to ask questions and to profile your institution if you are interested in finding partners for possible proposals

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Salvatore Iaconesi's picture
Salvatore Iaconesi,
27/01/2016 22:07

Hello,
we are actively looking for partners to collaborate on a proposal. Given our focus STARTS is a major direction in which we're looking, but we're also considering the other many options in which arts and creativity are starting to become relevant: IoT, societal challegnes, culture, health, and the others.
We can offer two main types of contributions:

1) deriving from this: http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org/ubiquitous-commons-architecture-and-dom...
As someof you may already know, Ubiquitous Commons is a research project which is creating a legal/technological protocol using which it is possible to create radically innovative reflections/actions on the ways in which streams of data can be collected, distributed, shared. A p2p, relational ecosystem in which to promote commons-based data,information and knowledge flows.
We currently have working prototypes for online services, IoT, domotics, wearables and biomedical devices, and are actively creating use cases with communities, rurality, education, open science, arts and more.
These are the areas we're working on: http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/UC-domains.png
There's 4 of us directly on this, together with 16 researchers, 3 developers and, putting them all together, around 20thousand community participants.
We can provide technology, art-science-tech-design collaboration patterns to create concepts, prototypes etc. And, most important of all, we can provide infrastructure on which to build upon, to experiment, educate, support other in the creation of projects which deal with data/information/knowledge using these p2p modalities, across all topics.

2) deriving from this: http://human-ecosystems.com/home/
The Human Ecosystems project captures large amounts and types of data from entire cities, and uses them to create a commons which is usable by citizens, artists, scientists, researchers, city administrators, students, children, elderly and more. A Museum is created in each city, as an iconic location in which to experience the digital public space of the city, and to be able to use it. In the museum wide and inclusive education programs help all types of individuals and organizations to build upon the digital public space of the city.
In the STARTS context, this is the place in which digital data, information and knowledge brings all the subjects of the city together, with art and aesthetics as catalysts, across arts, sciences, technologies, civic action, education, culture.
We have many cities already involved, with the Bologna experiment being the most advanced one.
We can provide technologies, environments, methods, infrastructure, as well as about 12 cities in europe and 7 more across the world in which to experiment and do things. Also currently working on rural areas, which could be interesting for a series of reasons.

Of course the two things can also be connected together (and, actually, that's how they were born)

We already have different project ideas, and looking for the right partners to see if they can be conveniently put together.
We are small, so we are very interested in larger partners who can bring us into a consortium. We have very precise ideas about what we want/can do. This also means that finding a placement for us into an existing consortium could be relatively easy.
Get in touch if you want!
If you let us know who is forming consortiums and what you need, we might be able to help, and that's what we want, as well.
Thanks!
Salvatore

Total votes: 2
Andrea Brunello's picture
Andrea Brunello,
09/01/2016 11:09

Hello, I represent Jet Propulsion Theatre, a project which connects performing arts, theatre and science in a novel way, through the creation of original plays and the development of scientific narrative with deep emotional connotations (http://www.jetpropulsiontheatre.com).
While this forum may be more oriented towards technology, I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in exploring collaboration.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to have a chat!
Kind Regards, Andrea

Total votes: 2
Joachim Quantz's picture
Joachim Quantz,
05/01/2016 14:25

ART+COM would be interested in actively participating in STARTS-proposals for
- an Innovation Action "establishing a structured dialogue between creative people and technologists"
- a Coordination/Support Action to "provide a brokerage service" to facilitate integration of artists in research and innovation actions

We would see our role in identifying best practices on combining arts and technology innovation, based on more than 25 years on hands on experience in research and client projects for cultural heritage centers, museums, visitor centers and industry show rooms.

Due to our close cooperation with the University of Arts, Berlin, and regional clusters, networks and creative initiatives, we could also organize events and workshops for prototyping, training, etc. in the Berlin region.

Below I also include a brief company profile as well as CVs for Jussi Ängeslevä and myself. Whereas Jussi would be responsible for the "content", I would take care of all administrative stuff, having almost 30 years of experience with (European) research projects.

My contact details are Joachim.Quantz@artcom.de. However, as I am currently on vacation and won't be in the office before January, 25, you can reach me via my private email joachimquantz@yahoo.de until then.

Profile ART+COM:
ART+COM Studios (www.artcom.de) designs and develops new media installations and spaces. We use new technology as an artistic medium of expression and as a medium for the interactive communication of complex information. In the process, we are improving the technologies constantly and exploring their potential for spatial communication and art.
ART+COM ART designs media sculptures and installations that have an effect on their respective locations, giving them their identity — beyond their function and architecture. Our art projects are both commissioned for public space and produced on our own initiative.
ART+COM COMMUNICATION designs and implements media installations and spaces that impart complex content in a targeted manner and turn information into an engaging experience. We create exhibits for exhibitions, museums and brand spaces.
ART+COM RESEARCH explores new media and its applications both independently and in co-operation with companies and academic institutions.
ART+COM e.V., founded in 1988, is today ART+COM Studios, working internationally for clients in business, culture and research.

CVS:
Dr. Joachim Quantz has studied Computer Science (Diploma 1988, PhD 1995) and Linguistics/Philosophy (M.A. 1992), at Technische Universität Berlin. He has more than 25 years of experience with national and international client and research projects and has joined ART+COM as Head of Research in 2008. His areas of expertise include Human Computer Interaction, Semantic Technologies, Smart Home, Business Process Management and Mobile Apps. Joachim has been actively involved in the European Research projects ADKMS/AIMS (1988-1993) , MARINER (1998-2000), ACTSLINE (1998-2000), and DIP (2004-2006).

Mr. Jussi Ängeslevä: Being involved in academia, design industry and conducting his individual experimental work, Jussi Ängeslevä is focusing on embodied interfaces, experiences and services for the public. His work as Vice Creative Director at ART+COM media design studio is consistently yielding international recognition in exhibitions, installations and awards. In parallel he is an honorary professor at the Berlin University of the Art teaching Digital Media Design and has been serving as a juror, chair or advisor in various academic and design bodies such as D&AD, ARS Electronica, TEI and Siggraph. His design ethos is leveraging hardware, software, physical and graphic design in the search for elegance in highly specific solutions, where the meaning of a work is inseparable from the medium communicating it.

Total votes: 4
Anna Dumitriu's picture
Anna Dumitriu,
30/12/2015 20:31

I am very interested in getting involved, particularly with ICT-36a and potentially other aspects. I am an artist and worked on the original ICT & Art Connect support action http://ict-art-connect.eu/ and am now working as an artist and curator on the FEAT Project http://ict-art-connect.eu/ I have lots of experience on art/science/technology collaboration. I am also lead artist on this Creative Europe funded project http://trustmeimanartist.eu. I am sure many of my contacts will also be very interested and I hope some of us can work together. It's extremely exciting to see these new calls.

Also - other artists on here, please look at our call for artists on the FEAT project - we have 5 residencies with a budget of €18000 each (deadline 31st January) - see http://featart.eu/

- Anna Dumitriu www.normalflora.co.uk and www.annadumitriu.co.uk

Total votes: 0
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Anna Dumitriu,
30/12/2015 20:30

I'm personally particularly interested in projects which combine biology with ICT and art. Such as 3D bioprinting, social robotics, gene editing (CRISPR/Cas9), genomics, epidemiology, big data, healthcare innovation, global health, microfluidics etc.

Total votes: 1
Fermin Serrano Sanz's picture
Fermin Serrano Sanz,
20/12/2015 23:20

Public engagement is transforming science, knowledge, technology, arts, politics... As stated in the White Paper for Citizen Science in Europe that we created within Socientize.eu citizen science plays a new role in the relationship between science and society, and the confluence of arts and technologies can also foster new synergies for multiple innovations. Link here http://www.socientize.eu/?q=es/content/download-socientize-white-paper It is relevant the role of digital platforms but also physical spaces allowing new fields of action.

I would like to remember what we did for the STARTS initiative compiling several of the key actors and some of the best cases working at the confluence of S&T&ARTS based in open collaborations and leading to innovation. You can see the overview of STARTS at Sónar+D here https://vimeo.com/143128872 Please check it to have an idea of the projects we use as basis for the upcoming STARTS call and new ideas to come.

Also, I want to share the privileged environment we have in Zaragoza, Spain around the University of Zaragoza (providing outstanding scientific equipment and scientific excellence), the etopia_ Center for Art and Technology (providing a building like catalyst including residence for exchange and space for living and labs for work, experimentation and exposure), the Ibercivis Foundation (providing communities of amateurs, creators and volunteers) and the multinational companies present in this City. Specially relevant is the set of labs (fablabs, electronics, audiovisuals, sensing, robotics, wet lab, computing...) we are deploying for public use, merging researchers-artists-citizens. Full list here http://bifi.es/en/infrastructures/scientific-equipment/cesar We are already working on several projects fully aligned with STARTS expectations.

As an example of the things we are doing, please consider and share this Open call for artistic residencies for the upcoming exhibition Reverberadas within the European Digital Art and Science Network (coordinated by Ars Electronica with an outstanding set of partners from scientific and artistic environments, funded under Creative Europe). http://www.fundacionzcc.org/estaticos/upload/0/000/296.pdf Please share it and come to Zaragoza next May 2016!

Fermin Serrano, Fundación Ibercivis

Total votes: 2
Bruno apolloni's picture
Bruno apolloni,
18/12/2015 15:47

A research project on the exploitation of 3D printing by artists could represent a wonderful welding point between arts and technology.
A peculiar example has been supplied to me by a Kenyan colleague: the fabrication of woman's shovels decorated according to the local-art habits and own personality. The social value of this tool seems to be very high.

Total votes: 1
Anna Dumitriu's picture
Anna Dumitriu,
30/12/2015 20:23

As an artist/curator I would be particularly interested in experimenting and developing work with 3D bioprinting which I think artists and designers could bring a great deal to in terms of innovative ideas, uses and techniques. I would also be interested in working with new resin 3D printers or those that can print using metal.

Total votes: 2