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[NEW RESOURCE] AIxMusic Festival Catalogue
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 in conjunction with artificial in...
[NEW RESOURCE] STARTS Prize Catalogues
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 jury, and the several projects received and evaluated. ...
[NEW RESOURCE] The Ars Electronica Festival 2020 Catalogue is out!
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 and discover the multi...
How AI and Art Hold Each Other Accountable, by Beth Jensen
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 Netflix show “Black Mirror,” depicting a dysto...
Tech-Style Design: A behind-the-scenes look into the future of wearable tech
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 and designers to work together with scientists and tec...
Exploring the state-of-art in how AI is transforming the visual effects (VFX) industry, by Martin Anderson
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 the CGI revolution.
The Exploration of Artificial Creativity with artonomous, by Beth Jochim
Margaret Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex and advisor to the  Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, believes that the creative process is still...
Countdown for the STARTS Prize 2020
Get to know the ten works that will be exhibited during STARTS Prize 2020.
"Using AI to speculate a future that belongs to all of us": an Immersion in Refik Anadol´s universe
"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 also a poet of math, an arquitect of ...
[RESOURCE] The Relationship between Art, Science, and Technology
Author: Asmaa Youssef Mohammed Elmongi
Being Material: An exploration on materialities and materialisms, by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)
Re-Fream partner AITEX develops new research on hybrid electronic solutions on textile substrate
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 on flexible and stretchable s...
Experience Readiness Level: Navigating IoT and Arts in a New Digital World
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 for the whole of Europe, is to go further. To help ind...
Call for feedback on the first S+T+ARTS collaboration toolkit
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...
Digital Innovation Hubs: three new S+T+ARTS projects coming off the ground
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 Digital Innovation Hubs, the Co...
The next adventure of the IES and Anna Dumitriu
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"), Claudia Schnu...