2025
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AI War Cloud Database
Sarah Ciston (US)
What responsibilities do users and makers have in choosing AI tools, when their development can also lead to deadly outcomes at massive scales? AI War Cloud Database catalogues the systems used to make automated decisions in warfare, and it maps where the same types of tools appear in smartphones and popular social platforms.
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Synthetic Memories
Domestic Data Streamers (ES)
Synthetic Memories is a heritage preservation initiative using generative AI to reconstruct and safeguard personal memories at risk of being lost or never visually documented.
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Coral Sonic Resilience
Marco Barotti (IT)
Coral reefs are vibrant underwater ecosystems essential for maintaining marine biodiversity and protecting coastlines. Thriving with life, they create a unique underwater symphony that resonates with the crackle of shrimp, the chatter of fish, and other marine sounds.
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Computational Compost
Marina Otero Verzier (ES)
Computational Compost addresses the environmental impact of data storage and proposes a synergy between technology and ecology.
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Coexist
Emergence Delft (NL)
Coexist is the outcome of artistic research on quantum technology by Emergence Delft. By translating key principles like superposition and the measurement problem into a life-size, multidimensional installation, Coexist offers visitors an experience of quantum phenomena.
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Breathing Architecture
Filippo Nassetti (IT/GB)
Breathing Architecture explores the anatomy of air, modelling its flows within the intricate and beautiful structures of human respiration. The project merges art and science to advance the study of human anatomy, connecting artist Filippo Nassetti with researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center through the S+T+ARTS AIR Residencies program.
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Zifzafa
Lawrence Abu Hamdan (LB)
Zifzafa demonstrates the force of this sonic annexation, and features over 40 field recordings by Jawlani artists, to serve as an archive of a sonic life under threat.
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The Solar Share – An Edible Solar Currency
DISNOVATION.ORG art collective (INT)
The Solar Share stages a form of planetary economics based on photosynthesis. This artistic provocation seeks to estimate the orders of magnitude of new solar energy income metabolized by photosynthetic organisms at a planetary scale, a process fundamental to all planetary life.
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The Call
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst (US)
The Call develops new protocols and materials for the creation of AI models. To train the AI, Herndon and Dryhurst have composed a songbook of hymns, singing exercises and a recording protocol, and recorded fifteen community choirs across the UK.
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The Permanent and Insatiable
Xin Liu (CN)
The Permanent and Insatiable is a series of installations exploring the mythic tension in material science. Each installation features miniature cityscapes made from post-consumer PET plastic, submerged in transparent bioreactors where lab-grown enzymes gradually dissolve them.
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Performative Ethnographies
Špela Petrič (SI)
Performative Ethnographies (PE) are an artistic methodology and ongoing non-disciplinary research created as a response to the multiple layers of exclusion of laypeople from spaces where advanced technology is developed, even though their bodies are affected by it.
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The Year of Weather
Open-weather (INT)
Open-weather’s Year of Weather (YoW) explores changing relations to weather and climate as the planet warms above 1.5 degrees Celsius. It unfolds as public access to environmental knowledge is threatened by attempts to dismantle US agencies such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an institution that has provided satellite images to ground stations around…