Akademie für Theater und Digitalität

©Birgit Hupfeld

Akademie für Theater und Digitalität

©Birgit Hupfeld

Artificial intelligence, urban dance and new circus

MKW funds nine projects with a total of around 470,000 euros

With this programme, the Ministry of Culture wants to promote forward-looking art forms, especially digital arts, electronic music, contemporary circus and urban art, and open up new spaces for artistic experimentation.

The jury, consisting of artists and experts Jasmin Siddiqui, Nazanin Noori, Silke Grabinger, Nora Al-Badri, Vladimir Ivkovic and Franziska Trapp, recommended nine projects with a total volume of around 470,000 euros for funding at its first meeting. The funded projects reflect the great diversity of the New Arts. They include artistic events dealing with artificial intelligence, the fusion of urban art with digital technologies, a summit meeting of international street art actors, new productions of contemporary circus, a participatory future laboratory of digital arts, new creative spaces for urban dance and electronic music, and collaborations between electronic music clubs. The projects will be realised in the cities of Essen, Herne, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Dortmund starting in 2022.

More information on the funded cooperation projects will be published in January 2022. Applications for the second funding round of the programme can be submitted from 15 March 2022.