Webinar: Closing the Loop

What does “excellence” look like when artists, scientists, and technologists collaborate? During this webinar, we will explore the impact of award-winning art-science projects and the conditions that make these projects successful. Together, we will discuss the benefits and implications for policymakers, industry, cultural organisations, and the education and research sector. 

Outstanding art-science projects go beyond novelty: they engage with real-world concerns, cross disciplinary boundaries, build agency, and make power and assumptions visible — often influencing culture, policy, or infrastructure. In this webinar, we will present key insights from our own research and discuss what future collaborations between art, science, and technology can mean for a better future.  

Programme

This event will be in English. 

After registration, you will receive the link to the webinar one day before the event. 

About Closing the Loop

Art-science collaboration is one of Waag's key research methods, employing creative practices and transdisciplinary methods to encourage society to question and engage with science and technology. For many years, contributing to the organising, awarding and disseminating of the S+T+ARTS Prize, the European award for artistic excellence and innovative collaborations, has been a part of this practice. With Closing the Loop, Waag presents a structural analysis of the impact of the S+T+ARTS Prize in the past 8 years. We identify the pathways and conditions through which art-driven and transdisciplinary projects shape the excellence of European research and innovation, and how art-driven innovation can benefit industry, policy makers, cultural organisations, and the education and research sector. 

Download the study (pdf)

The study was commissioned by Ars Electronica as part of the S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o project. STARTS Ec(h)o is funded by the European Union under the Grant Agreement No 101135691.