Combined with the research into natural and artificial sources in the creation process, the project explores ways of controlling surreal digital landscapes through sound. The result is an audiovisual live performance with music and animation where world-building and storytelling take centre stage. The aim of the research is to explore the friction between technology and nature and to question how data flows affect our reality. Subfiction – Enter is a collaboration between musician Beau Zwart and designer Vincent Snijders that studies the responsiveness between music and design.

The representation of design disciplines that the Fund covers is therefore stronger in this round than in the past. Also recurring in the intended results of various projects is increasing self-awareness, utilizing your own strength, meditation, going beyond the ego and being together physically.īesides the usual applications that focus on the development of a digital application, an installation or scenography for a live performance, this round also includes applications using fashion design, and one application was submitted from the field of architecture. In different applications, spirituality, philosophy and mythology appear to be an important source of inspiration. Several applications focus on the themes of loneliness, alienation and the influence of technology. Apart from the fact that the projects vary greatly in scale and scope, it is also notable that more starting grants were applied for in this round than in previous rounds of this grant scheme. The variation within the submitted applications was relatively large this round.

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