STARTS is a platform that aims to link technology and artistic practice more closely. It is implemented by European policy to promote innovations that also benefit the art world. It supports collaboration between artists, scientists, engineers and researchers to develop more creative, inclusive and sustainable technologies, and focuses on people and projects that help address the social, environmental and economic challenges with which the European continent is confronted. One of these programs funded under the STARTS umbrella is the STARTS Prize, which annually awards outstanding interdisciplinary collaborations that would lead to new forms of European Innovation. Ars Electronica presents these works in the STARTS exhibition. STARTS – Repairing the Present is showcasing leading discourse about technological and environmental developments during the conferences on the STARTS Day. STARTS residency works are being showcased in both the festival exhibition and its further discursive program.
