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New Award from the UdK Berlin: UdK Prize for Interdisciplinary Art and ScienceThe UdK Berlin is initiating a new prize for interdisciplinary art and science in 2010. The new prize will be awarded on a biennial basis and is endowed with 7500 Euros. The aim is to give the impetus and opportunity to artists and scientists of all types to work in the field of tension between the arts or between the arts and science. The UdK Prize for Interdisciplinary Art and Science thus replaces the Karl Hofer Prize, which the UdK Berlin awarded for the last time in 2007. The jury under the chairmanship of the President of the UdK Berlin consists of the Chair of the Commission for Artistic and Scientific Projects at the UdK Berlin, Wolfgang Knapp, Prof. Daniel Ott, representative of the Postgraduate School of the UdK Berlin, and four additional jurors who do not belong to the UdK Berlin in any way and have shown outstanding achievements in their own professional fields. Individuals and groups are eligible to participate. Full-time employees of the UdK Berlin, as well as students of the UdK Berlin and other colleges/universities are excluded. Deadline for the submission of entries is 31st May 2010. |
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Governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, congratulates Professor Sauter (UdK) on his design awardJoachim Sauter, professor at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), has received the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2010. The governing major of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, congratulated the 50-year-old professor on this honour. Wowereit: “This award shows that Berlin is still the capital of design in Germany. Our city provides an atmosphere conducive to creativity, with orientation towards the future. In particular, it should be emphasised that the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany highlights creative achievements between art and industry. The presentation of the award to a Berlin professor also accentuates the city’s openness to the use of new technologies in the field of design.” Culture, technology and industry represent a new harmony in design, the mayor went on to say, and this develops a surprising aesthetic quality in Sauter’s works. The jury awarded gold in the category of communications design to Sauter’s “kinetic sculpture” from the BMW Museum Munich. The Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is presented annually by the Federal Ministry of Industry and Technology in collaboration with the Design Council. It is seen as the highest accolade in the field of design in Germany. This year the jury made awards to five works in each of the categories, product design and communications design. The prize-winners were chosen from a total of 1,200 nominations. In addition, there were 18 silver awards in the first and 17 in the second category. The prizes will be presented in Frankfurt/Main on 12th February. |
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