CIANT (since 1998) is an international platform for research, production and presentation of creative use of information and communication technologies within the arts, often intersecting with various scientific domains. During the last 14 years CIANT has established art/science collaborations with research institutes, universities, art centres as well as individuals across the whole of Europe and beyond. Based in Prague, Czech Republic. CIANT is a non-governmental non-profit civic association that invites artists, scientists, researchers, curators, and arts managers to get involved in various formats of short- and long-term exploratory research and production activities on both local and international level. With an assistance of public and private funding CIANT initiates and implements projects that aim to transfer knowledge among different creative and research domains while resulting in concrete outcomes such as interactive applications prototypes, new software and hardware integrations or take a form of artworks. Activities have strong educational and presentational aspect: training sessions, festivals, exhibitions, performances and conferences.
! “Winner of over 30 EU-funded grants in research & development, culture, media, mobility and education”
! “2010 European Ambassador of Culture (awarded by the European Commission)”
