Migros Culture Percentage promotes projects in the field of digital culture
The Migros Culture Percentage awarded the work grants for digital culture on Saturday. The aim is to promote innovative projects every year. This year, the jury selected four projects to be supported with a total of 50,000 Swiss francs.
The Migros Culture Percentage awarded the work grants for digital culture on Saturday. The aim is to promote innovative projects every year. This year, the jury selected four projects to be supported with a total of 50,000 Swiss francs. The Internet project "Enhanced Generator" by the artist duo Ubermorgen and the Diskomat by Solothurn artist Flo Kaufmann will each receive 15,000 francs. The artist duo Michael Egger and Maité Colin from Fribourg, known under the name Anyma, will receive 10,000 francs for the further development of the Videobass project. Another 10,000 francs will go to Daniel Imboden from Emmenbrücke, who will use the money to realize his robot kits and a new robot.
The Digital Work Awards took place as part of the Version.Beta festival of the Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine in Geneva. The five-member jury consisted of Raffael Dörig from the media art forum Plug.in Basel, Niki Schawalder from the University of Art and Design in Zurich, the former artistic director of the Belluard Festival in Fribourg Stéphane Noël, and Dominik Landwehr and Raphael Rogenmoser from the Pop and New Media department of the Migros Culture Percentage.
Simultaneously with the announcement of the 2008 work contributions, a DVD entitled "Work Contributions Digital Culture 1" is published by the Basel Merian Verlag. It shows the projects that were funded last year: Picidae, BitBug and Musicanical Robot Freakshow.
Production funding for digital culture will continue in 2009. Once again, projects are being sought that are not only innovative, but also feasible and comprehensible. The works should have a chance with the audience and thus address social and cultural change in the context of digital media. The call for entries will start in spring 2009, and the winners will be announced at the Shift 2009 festival.
The Digital Work Awards took place as part of the Version.Beta festival of the Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine in Geneva. The five-member jury consisted of Raffael Dörig from the media art forum Plug.in Basel, Niki Schawalder from the University of Art and Design in Zurich, the former artistic director of the Belluard Festival in Fribourg Stéphane Noël, and Dominik Landwehr and Raphael Rogenmoser from the Pop and New Media department of the Migros Culture Percentage.
Simultaneously with the announcement of the 2008 work contributions, a DVD entitled "Work Contributions Digital Culture 1" is published by the Basel Merian Verlag. It shows the projects that were funded last year: Picidae, BitBug and Musicanical Robot Freakshow.
Production funding for digital culture will continue in 2009. Once again, projects are being sought that are not only innovative, but also feasible and comprehensible. The works should have a chance with the audience and thus address social and cultural change in the context of digital media. The call for entries will start in spring 2009, and the winners will be announced at the Shift 2009 festival.
