Bio Art & Design Award open for applications

The Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bioart and biodesign, and produce new work in close collaboration with prestigious Dutch Life Science institutes working in numerous fields such as sustainability, food, health, biotechnology and horticulture. The deadline of submissions is February 1, 2017. Depending on the quality of the of the proposals, there is budget available for three awards of € 25,000 each in 2017.The Award aims to:

Ignite interest, excitement and debate about the Life Sciences through high-quality, original artistic practice;
Examine the social, cultural and ethical contexts of the Life Sciences through the arts;
Promote high-quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborations between art/ design and science/technology.

The award highlights and explores exciting new intersections among design, artistic practice and the Life Sciences. The award is a product of collaboration between ZonMW, NWO, MU Artspace (Eindhoven), Waag Society (Amsterdam), Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven) and BioArt Laboratories (Eindhoven). The selection procedure will be organized by ZonMw.