The STARTS Prize is the grand prize of the

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that honors projects that demonstrate the successful integration of

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technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

and

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

to contribute to social and economic innovation. Two grand prize winners and up to ten honorary mentions are selected by an international jury each year. One grand prize is awarded for innovative collaboration between industry or technology and the arts that open new pathways for innovation. A second grand prize is awarded for artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology. The prize is funded under

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and is awarded on behalf of the

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in collaboration with

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and Waag Society.

Winners and honorary mentions

{, class="wikitable" !Year !Prize for Innovative Collaboration !Prize for Artistic Exploration !Honorary Mentions , - , 2018 , ''Amsterdam’s 3D Printed Steel Bridge'' - MX3D and Joris Laarman Lab , ''Future Flora'' – Giulia Tomasello , * ''The Institute of Isolation'' – Lucy McRae * ''phosphere'' – Rhizomatiks Research, ELEVENPLAY, evala, Takayuki Fujimoto (Kinsei R&D) * ''Fennec Turbine'' – Maxim Kuzin, ATOM * ''BLITAB – the innovative tablet for the blind' – Kristina Tsvetanova, Slavi Slavev / BLITAB Technology GmbH * ''Shadertoy'' – Pol Jeremias Vila, Iñigo Quilez / Beautypi * ''Making Sense – Citizen Sensing Toolkit'' – Making Sense Team * '' ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!'' – Ei Wada + Nicos Orchest-Lab * ''489 Years'' – Hayoun Kwon * ''Printed Paper Actuator'' – Morphing Matter Lab at Carnegie Mellon University * ''FluidSolids'' – FluidSolids® AG , - , 2017 , ''Rock Print'' – Gramazio Kohler Research,

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and Self-Assembly Lab,

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, ''I'm Humanity'' –

Etsuko Yakushimaru is a Japanese singer, producer, composer, lyricist, arranger and artist. She is broadly active, from pop music to experimental music and art. Her output has also included drawing, installation art, media art, poetry and other literature, and reci ...

, * ''3arabizi Keyboard'' – Hadeer Omar * ''Blink: Humanising Autonomy'' – Adam Bernstein, Raunaq Bose, Leslie Nooteboom, Maya Pindeus * '' GNIS AER AQUA TERRA' – Yuima Nakazato * ''Library of Ourselves'' –

BeAnotherLab BeAnotherLab is an international anti-disciplinary collective dedicated to investigate the relationship between identity and empathy, attempting to communicate, understand and expand subjective experience through embodiment and telepresent experi ...

* ''Mimus: Coming face-to-face with our companion species'' – Madeline Gannon * ''nonvisual-art'' – Lisa Buttinger * ''Out of Exile'' – Nonny de la Peña, Emblematic Group * Research Institute for Arts and Technology * ''Sentient Veil'' – Philip Beesley * ''Treelab'' – Marcus Maeder, Roman Zweifel , - , 2016 , ''Artificial Skins and Bones'' – Artificial Skins and Bones Group , ''Magnetic Motion -''

Iris van Herpen Iris van Herpen (born June 5, 1984) is a Dutch fashion designer known for fusing technology with traditional haute couture craftsmanship. Van Herpen opened her own label ''Iris van Herpen'' in 2007. In 2011, the Dutch designer became a guest-mem ...

, * ''Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab'' – Waag Society * ''Bionic Partition: Generative Design for Aerospace'' –

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, APWorks, Autodesk, The Living * ''Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds -'' Yoichi Ochiai * ''RGB, CMYK KINETIC'' – ART+COM Studios * ''SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters'' – Verity Studios,

and

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...

* ''unfold -'' Ryoichi Kurokawa * V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media * ''Water-based Digital Fabrication Platform'' – Mediated Matter Research Group, MIT Media Lab * ''WCMC Discover Wall'' – Squint/Opera and Hirsch & Mann * We Make Money Not Art

References

European science and technology awards Awards established in 2016 Arts awards