This is YOUR opportunity to create and showcase your creative application that inspires people on the questions raised above. We would like to challenge you to be creative. Thus, the creative application can take any form: an information visualisation or an interactive movie, a chatbot, or a collaborative game. You can discuss any aspect at the crossroad/intersection of technology and society. We encourage you to highlight the impacts of technology on human life and society, and the diversity of disciplines and contributors involved.
Click here for the complete call for creative applications.
Deadline: May 13 2022
Who can participate?
Anybody at the VU is welcome to participate, from students, to researchers, professors, etc. Participation can be individual or in teams. We encourage interdisciplinary creative applications.
We invite all of you to the launch event on April 13th 2022 where you can meet other participants and perhaps your future teammates!
Use what?
You can use the 65” screen that is now on display in the entrance of the NU building. The screen can be used in any orientation (portrait, landscape, or others). You can use additional hardware, sensors, customised casing for the screen according to your budget (read below).
Prizes
The jury will fund up to 3 projects. A budget of up to €3,000 is available for each winning project. This budget is intended to enable applicants to realise their proposed creative applications and to cover expenses such as equipment, additional sensors, hardware, subscriptions to external services, enrolment of professional creatives like interactive/UI designers, etc.
Submissions
Proposals must be submitted to network.institute.beta@vu.nl by 23:59 of May 13th 2022. In order to be considered, each proposal must follow the official template of the initiative.
Each proposal has a maximum length of 3 pages in A4 format. A proposal can be proposed by either an individual participant or a team of participants. A participant can participate in more than one proposal.
Important dates
Below we report an indication of the most important dates of the initiative:
- April 13: launch event with special guests
- Between April 13 and May 13: interactive workshops for potential applicants
- May 13: deadline for proposals
- May 27: notification of the winners
- September 5: the project is up and running on the screen
Launch event
When: April 13 2022, from 13:30 to 18:00
Where: NU building at VU, NU-2C33 Theater 3
Register for the event
Participation to the workshop is completely free for anyone, but registration is mandatory. Click here to register!
Program
- 13:30-13:45 – Welcome and intro
- 13:45-14:45 – Dries Depoorter (artist and TEDx speaker): Surveillance Art, Dying Phones and Fake Likes
- 14:45-15:45 – Sabrina Verhage (creative technologist): Alternative Technologies
- 15:45-16:45 – Martin Krzywinski (Staff Scientist): TBD
- 16:45-17:00 – Closing
- 17:00 onwards – Networking with borrel
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