NE©XT Accelerator

NE©XT Accelerator is an interdisciplinary project focused on emerging designers, visual and performing artists, dancers, photographers, digital artists and filmmakers.

The main aim of the project is to offer new opportunities to the new generation of artists, enabling them to make a living from creative works. The project offers them not only the opportunity to produce and present their works to a larger and international audience, but also to grow professionally with a more entrepreneurial, innovative and transnational approach.

The proposed project demonstrates a very good match and relevance to the Cooperation Programme. The applicant has indicated that the project meets five priorities and objectives. The described project demonstrates meeting all of them to a very good extent.

The project promotes the circulation of artistic works, providing emerging artists with skills, and competences that contribute to strengthening the cultural and creative sectors. It fosters the mobility of artists and their works through the three festival editions and the foreseen ten innovative entrepreneurship residencies.

Through the “ Incubator Work Programme”, the project wants to analyze and resume the current Art Incubator practices in Europe, mapping them and finding the best results to test new business models during the connected training programme.

The use of new digital technologies represents a recurring theme in all the activities of the project, from the art production to the incubator work programme, showing a real cutting edge approach to the art field in all its aspects (productions, networking, business). The project will contribute to the digitalization of arts in Europe and the partners plan to deliver different digital outputs to wide European audiences such as video games, interactive media, film and performance media.

The proposed project demonstrates a clear focus on audience development. All the described activities are intended to provide cultural players (young artists, art educators, art producers, curators) with skills and competences and to enable them to collaborate internationally. The NEU/NOW Live Festival will select artistic graduate work that includes specific audience(s) in the works and/or approaches audiences in new ways, through digital technologies, or makes otherwise new connections with

audiences. Audience development is part of the training programme, and results in the training format ‘New Ways of looking at Creativity and Audiences’. The project intends to investigate the distinction between artists and audiences, trying gradually to integrate audience in the artistic works. This development will be explored, analysed and discussed during a seminar -‘Making a Living from the Arts’.

Partner

European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) - Nederland
The University of Winchester - UK
Stockholm University of the Arts - Sweden
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Scotland
Ecole Européenne Supérieure d'Arts de Bretagne - France
Association Européenne des Conservatoires - Belgium
Prix Europa - Belgium
InWest eG - Kreativwirtschaft, Dortmund - Germany
University of the Arts Helsinki - Finland
Art Academy of Latvia - Latvia
University of Arts Belgrade - Serbia
University of Arts of Tirana - Albania
FOAM, Photography Museum Amsterdam - Nederland
Palazzo Spinelli per l'arte e il restauro Associazione no profit Firenze - Italy
Design Creative Living Lab, Cité du Design Saint-Etienne - France
Royal College of Arts, Innovation - UK
Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision - France
Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media - UK
University of Arts in Poznan - Poland