New Society, New Voices: Digital Transformations Announces the Winners of Its Second Digital Society Bursary
In 2018, Digital Transformations established the Digital Society Bursary to support any and all creative endeavours that seek a deeper understanding of the digitised society. This year’s bursary was aimed at graduating students in Ireland who are exploring the digital society within their practice. The digital society is throwing arts, policy, education, culture and business together in ways that only an artistic sensibility can really fathom.
The 2020 award was open to students in any creative discipline (visual, performing, musical, media, technology, literature). The submissions represented all these disciplines, and each had a revealing response to a society built on digital technology.
The 2020 winners
Each student will receive €1000 and will have their work exhibited in the first Digital Transformations group show, the details of which will be announced shortly.
In announcing the awards, founder Scott Coombs said “while all the projects are very different, some challenging, some entertaining, all of them demonstrate how deeply these students are thinking about digitisation and its impact on human identity, the human mind and voice.” Having planned these projects long before Covid, many of the students found ways to adapt to the new circumstances that revealed new insights into what it means to collaborate, and with whom we must collaborate.
Coombs said “I’m really looking forward to showing these works to as wide an audience as possible, and letting them hear these new voices and engaging with their ideas.”