B.Nidever Call for Artists, Call for Proposals, Life Sciences

Call for Projects – BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD REGULATIONS 2016

The Bio Art & Design Award highlights and explores exciting new intersections among design, artistic practice and the Life Sciences.

DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2016

Designers and artists interested in the Life Sciences are invited to propose projects for collaborative work across disciplines. The Bio Art & Design Award (previously called the DA4GA) is a € 25.000 award for successful applicants to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression.

The Bio Art & Design Award highlights and explores exciting new intersections among design, artistic practice and the Life Sciences. The award is a product of collaboration between ZonMW, NWO, MU, BioArt Laboratories, TU/e and Waag Society. The selection procedure will be organized by ZonMw.

To be eligible for the award you must have graduated no longer than five years ago from a design or art program (at either the Masters or Bachelors level). Applicants are encouraged to relate their proposals to recent advances in the Life Sciences, including those within specialties such as ecology, biomedicine and genomics. Please be sure to read all information about the call, deadlines and requirements detailed here before submitting an application.

More information and application [web]

B.Nidever Academic Institutes, Artists, Call for Collaboration, Life Sciences, Scientific organization

Open Call / Microbes as Material Workshop

Exploring Artistic Practice using Microbiological Systems Workshop, Lancaster University

Deadline: Feb. 27, 2015

The Biomedical and Life Sciences (BLS) Division at Lancaster University is opening its doors to artists who want to explore the theory and practice of microbiological processes. This is a unique opportunity for five UK artists to experience hands-on work in the microbiology research labs during a two day workshop. The workshop is produced in partnership with the Insight research group, Live@LICA and Abandon Normal Devices, and is funded by The Society for General Microbiology.

The aim of the workshop is to bring artists and scientists together as equal partners with a view to developing new hybrid projects and proposals in the arts and to explore the idea of the science lab as an artists studio. We will be exploring several themes; Linguistic communication and social intelligence of bacteria; selective growth and killing; performativity in the microbiology research lab. We are keen to explore how artists and scientists understand the materials they work with through practical actions and conceptual framing of the scientific process.

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B.Nidever Call for Applications, Life Sciences

BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD – 2015 Open Call

The award highlights and explores exciting new intersections among design, artistic practice and the life sciences.

Deadline: February 02, 2015

“Artists and designers interested in the life sciences are invited to propose new projects for funding. The BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD (previously called the DA4GA) grants three awards, each of them is €25.000, to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression. Winning proposals are developed in collaboration with a Dutch research institution over several months then exhibited to the public in MU Art Space in Eindhoven at the end of the year.

To be eligible for the award you must have graduated no longer than five years ago from a design or art program at either the Masters or Bachelors level. Applicants are encouraged to relate their proposals to recent advances in the life sciences, including (but not limited to) those within specialties such as biomedicine, synthetic biology and ecology…”

More information and to apply [web]