FUNKEN Academy - European Summer School

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The FUNKEN academy’s European summer school is devised to be the first step in fostering an interdisciplinary Pan-European collaboration network among cultural institutions, high-tech institutes, experienced artists and young creatives alike. At the intersection of arts and technology, it creates novel content for artistic education and production, sparking an eye-level discourse around the potential of new technologies for general society as well as the art world. Through artistic collaboration, the summer school programme combines serendipity with scientific research processes, developing sustainable innovation by providing an aesthetic-poetic view to technological research and societal issues, bringing together young European future professionals (students and post-graduates) in the generation of new ideas and society at large into the ensuing discourse. In the project, a course program (summer school) for young artists is created by renowned artists, which are selected by an international curatorial consortium formed by the renowned cultural institutions and cooperation partners Klub Solitaer e.V. (Chemnitz, Germany), WRO Art Center (Wroclaw, Poland) and ARS Electronica Center (Linz, Austria). The consortium partners collaborate with each other, triggering European knowledge transfer and cross-sector innovation by collaborating with high-tech institutes, to integrate new technologies with artistic trends in the context of an applied artistic course program. The course results will be internationally exhibited and thus be made accessible, tangible and feasible for a broad public.