Wellcome Trust Sci-Art Awards
Deadline 28 April 2006
Collaboration between art and science is a buoyant field of activity.
Visual art, music, digital media, moving image, creative writing and
performance provide fresh ways of interacting with scientific research,
and engaging a wide range of audiences in scientific issues. In turn,
science - with its vivid history, complex contemporary advances - offers a
rich supply of inspiration for the arts.
Projects should aim to stimulate fresh thinking and debate in both
disciplines. Innovation and experimentation are crucial. At the same time
projects should be accessible to diverse audiences and should attempt to
engage the public in the social, ethical and cultural issues that surround
contemporary biomedical science.
Sciart is offering up to £500 000 in 2006 to further support and encourage
innovative arts projects investigating biomedical science and its social
contexts.
Research and Development (R&D) Award
R&D Awards (up to £15 000) aim to support the development of collaborative
project ideas or the delivery of small-scale productions.
Artists and scientists can either work in collaborative partnership, or
named scientists can take an advisory role in an arts project. The award
can have two possible outcomes: either research and development of project
ideas, or small-scale productions that could include prototypes, artworks,
performances, broadcast proposals or digital media.
The awards are aimed at arts and science practitioners or organisations,
as well as mediators, academics and health professionals.
The next deadline for R&D Award applications is 28 April 2006.
Production Award
Production Awards (up to £120 000) will be made to projects that aim to
make a significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical
science.
Applications are invited from arts, science and broadcast organisations,
or agencies, and can be used to fund major activities such as exhibitions,
art projects, programmes for TV and radio, theatre, film, public
performance or events programmes.
Individuals can apply provided they are attached to or associated with a
recognised organisation or venue and can demonstrate a clear strategy for
public presentation and associated outcomes.
The next deadline for Production Award applications is 28 April 2006.
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