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Vera Penz (at)

admin — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:04:52 +0000

“SIA is a combination of a social mission, ideas and projects based on new business models and products."

Vera Penz, a social anthropologist presents the “Social impact award”. SIA is a platform created to support innovative ideas and projects for students. The Social impact award is based on the delevopment of social models with the support of business and financial realities. SIA is active in Austria, Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia and organize a series of workshops and events to help the realisation of social projects.

Vera talks about the organization of SIA and the support in the development of innovative ideas.

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For more information about the initiative http://socialimpactaward.net/

TodaysArt 2012 Symposium: Bright Collisions

neja — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:44:44 +0000

As part of the 8th edition of the TodaysArt Festival, the three-day symposium entitled ‘Bright Collisions’ took place at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. During the symposium, the audience, artists and professionals from various backgrounds discussed a range of contemporary and urgent topics in which art, technology and society meet and exert forces on each other.

The participants looked at what art can contribute to society in a time when the forms, values and relations of creative and technological media are being reinterpreted. In order to create a cohesive view on these developments, the subjects were approached from various scientific, social, historical and artistic perspectives, on both a practical as well as a theoretical level. With the symposium we touched upon a series of topics that gave us space for discussion and information exchange.

The Symposium was organized by TodaysArt in cooperation with the International Cities of Advanced Sound and related arts (ICAS) network, the Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends (STT) and the Royal Academy of Art The Hague. The realization of the Symposium has been made possible by the support of the EU Culture Programme, the DOEN Foundation, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland, Witteveen+Bos and Fonds1818.

Teresa Almeida, Paulo Gouveia (PT)

neja — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:51:28 +0000

Paulo Gouveia, portuguese artist and a president of non-profit organisation called Board of Clube Português de Artes e Ideias talk about the beginning of his cooperation with Teresa Almeida, an artist,designer, researcher and teacher originally from Portugal. In the interview he focuses on his previous projects somehow connected to residencies. Then, Teresa reveals her teaching in Media Arts and Interactive Art at Lasalle College of Arts in Singapore and explains the difference of art education and culture between Asia, Us and Europe. As she said, there is a more space to explore in Asia, because there is less people, so everything is new and everything you bring is kind of surprise, especially if you work with young college students.

I've been putting some thinking into this idea of traditional and digital in more kind of world context where people don't have an access to not even the electricity sometimes.

Later on, she mentions her latest projects- project she is currently working on with women’s organisation (she is teaching soft electronics on the border of Burma, where people don’t have an access to not even the electricity sometimes) and project Space Dress originally designed for rush hour at NYC subway system. She designates wearable technologies to cope with stress, anxiety and claustrophobic situations, or simply for comfort.