Dit jaar sponsort Buro Blink wederom de Youngblood Award. Een felbegeerde aanmoedigingsprijs voor afstudeerders van Nederlandse kunstacademies. De vakjury, bestaande uit Vanessa Evers (hoogleraar robotica, Universiteit Twente), Gerben Willers (oprichter kunstlabel All Together Now) en Josephine Bosma (journalist, mediacriticus) beslist wie de Award wint. Bovendien krijgen alle 22 nominees tijdens GOGBOT Festival de kans om hun werk aan een groots publiek exposeren.
Voor de BLINK YOUNGBLOOD AWARDS zijn genomineerd:
Federico Murgia – Maurice Gobert – Lizer van Hattem – Charlotte van Winden – Dirk Serpinski – Hilde Onis – Nono Groenen – Guus Huiting – Rob van der Burg – Jort van Welbergen – Jesper Vos + Bram Bogaerts – Viktoria Liaudanskaite – Gunhild Ang – Abel Wolff – Elise Sothys – Artyom Kocharyan – Anna Bondt – Nadja Geskus – Hendrik Hantschel – Adonis Stoanzikis – Jos Volkers – Jasna Rok
De juryleden zijn:
Vanessa Evers
Vanessa Evers is a full Professor of Human Media Interaction at the University of Twente.Her research focuses on Human Interaction with Autonomous Agents such as robots or machine learning systems and cultural aspects of Human Computer Interaction.
hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Member/vanessa_evers
Gerben Willers
Gerben Willers (1982) is an art historian and was the curator of Showroom MAMA. Gerben is fellow researcher in a project concerning the history of Dutch art criticism that’s initiated by VU University of Amsterdam, State University of Groningen and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation. He founded All Together Now, which represents and guides contemporary artists in their careers, and is committed to the production, presentation, mediation, and sale of their work.
all-together-now.info
Josephine Bosma
Josephine Bosma is an Amsterdam-based journalist and critic who has commented on the fields of art and new media since 1993. One of the first to probe into and engage with the domain of net art, her pioneering work is published internationally in books, periodicals and catalogues. She is authour of “Nettitudes: Let’s Talk Net Art”
josephinebosma.com