Digital Transformations invites applications to the Digital Society Award 2020.

This year’s award supports students who are exploring digital society within their practice. The digital society is throwing arts, policy, education, culture and business together in ways that only an artistic sensibility can really fathom. Successful applications will reflect the themes of Digital Transformations within their work: Digital Human, Networked Personality, Art for What’s Sake, and Manifesto.

Who can apply:
This award is open to students in the Irish higher education system who are due to graduate in 2020, at either undergraduate or postgraduate level, in any creative discipline (visual, performing, musical, media, technology, literature). The award will be made for work that satisfies the award year course work requirements for graduating students.

The Award: 10 separate awards of €1000 each.

Criteria
The award is open to work created within in the following disciplines:
– Visual Arts – Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Illustration, Craft making, & Fashion
– Performing Arts – dance, music, theatre & music
– Media Practice – writing, video & film
– Literature – fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism
– Technology – coding, architecture, design
– The qualifying work must be submitted to an institution (HEI) within the Irish higher education system and formally evaluated by the institution from which the applicant is expecting to graduate in 2020.
– The student must have a reasonable expectation of meeting the criteria for graduation in 2020. Students may submit works-in-progress.
– The work should reflect the themes of Digital Transformations in developing their work: Digital Human, Networked Personality, Art for What’s Sake, and Manifesto. See http://digitaltransformations.org/content/#themes for details.
– The work will be required to explore, through the work itself or in its production, the nature of collaboration in a digitised society. It is important to note that the work does NOT need to be a collaboration but should reveal something about the nature of collaboration in a digitised society. Both individual and group projects that satisfy the criteria will be acceptable.
– The work may also respond to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on digitisation and collaboration.
– The award recipients will be required to present, exhibit, perform, or share their completed work via Digital Transformations platforms and events.

See link below for further details.