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S+T+ARTS Hungry Ecocities: Call for Artists in the Agri-food sector

Hungry EcoCities is launching the second call for artists, dedicated to developing innovative prototypes for products and services within the agri-food sector. 

Hungry EcoCities is a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to develop responsible, art-driven solutions for the agri-food industry using AI-enabled technologies. This program will host up to 20 S+T+ARTS residencies aimed at prototyping these solutions for end-users. These “experiments” give an opportunity to think differently, to bridge perspectives, and to give a voice to unheard actors.  

To select up to the 20 art-driven experiments, two open calls have been launched addressing specific topics. The first call, “Humanizing Technology Experiments within AI Breakthrough Technology Domains,” has selected 9 artists who will use artistic means to explore and prototype AI applications in the agri-food sector, which can be accessed and tested within the Paths-to-Progress experiments.   

The second call, “paths to progress experiments to have AI enabled use scenario prototypes tested in real environments,” will select up to 10 teams, each composed of one end-user/SME from the agri-food sector and one artist, who will work together to address specific local challenges for artist-driven experiments conducted in local test sites. The selected teams will work together on a proposal to tackle a challenge in a concrete test site provided by the end-user (e.g., supermarket, bio farm, community garden, production facility, restaurant).

The Hungry EcoCities residencies will be:

  1. conducted in close collaboration with one of the hosts Art and Design studios Studio Other Spaces GMBH (SOS), with Sebastian Behmann and Olafur Eliasson, Carlo Ratti Associati S.R.L.(CRA), with Monika Löve and Daniele Belleri, and Controlled Environment Agriculture network organization EatThis (Stichting Network/NTWK), with Stephan Petermann, Aart van den Bos and Rem Koolhaas; 
  2. supported by AI and digital tech researchers at KU Leuven institute Leuven.AI (KUL) and Brno University of Technology (BUOT), along with AgriTech researchers at Mendel University in Brno (MNDLU); 
  3. mentored by the Institute for art-driven innovation In4Art BV. 

Learn more about the open call and apply here.