Applications were accepted between November 26, 2019 and February 10, 2020. Five winners were selected from among 96 applicants

Aleksei Taruts will produce the project All Dungeons Will Fall, which uses the gamified alleged remains of Noah’s Ark, discovered in Chechnya in 2017, to problematize the link between instant communication and the production of irrational, historical, and chance knowledge.

Entitled New Research Practices, the launch grant program focuses on the impact of technologies on the methods and subject of artistic research.

Valentin Golev will produce an interactive research project on digital visual art and 3D-rendering.

Anna Engelhardt will produce the project Machinic Infrastructures of Truth, which invites the viewer to analyze the process of production of truths and envisage it as a material system of information flow arteries, where traffic is regulated by taught algorithms.

eeefff group will produce the project Outsourcing Paradise, which is focused on the development of parasitic interfaces that reveal themselves in the gaps between the user’s activity and create glitches or add-ons to existing online ecologies.

Sara Culmann will produce a project exploring software and game engines as broad and open tools that can be used outside of the gaming world.

Sara Culmann’s Never Agency is an online platform for short multimedia stories built according to the logic of subscription content services.

In Outsourcing Paradise, eeefff explore the infrastructure of distributed labor that provides for the functioning the economy of platforms and web services.