2021
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Face Lab
Hakan Lidbo
A series of projects exploring the outer limits of how we use our face as an interpreter of our environment—or for the surroundings to find out what is going on in our minds.
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Data Garden
Grow Your Own Cloud
Data Garden is an organism-based data centre. This functional carbon negative data infrastructure is capable of storing and retrieving data from the DNA of plants.
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An Olfactory Biopolitics Nairobi
Coltrane McDowell
An Olfactory Biopolitics Nairobi spans the Netherlands to Kenya, linking these geopolitical locations through the thread of scent. The interaction of scent in public space became a means to examine hidden power structures of inequality, using the case study of my home country, Kenya.
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On View
Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti
Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti’s seminal interactive performance installation On View (2019), commissioned by the SCAD Museum of Art, examines the generational desire to be the subject of an art experience and that phenomenon’s relationship to addictive interfaces, surveillance capitalism, and data privacy in modern society.
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Cloud Studies
Forensic Architecture
Cloud Studies brings together eight recent investigations by Forensic Architecture, each examining different types of toxic clouds and the capacity of states and corporations to occupy airspace and create unliveable atmospheres.
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A Lighter Delicacy
Sorawut Kittibanthorn
A Lighter Delicacy proposes an alternative way to manage feather waste from slaughterhouses by converting its nutrient composition into a new edible product.
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The Growing Pavilion
Company New Heroes/ Biobased Creations
The Growing Pavilion stands as a necessary and viable solution for reducing the rising impacts of climate change and the use of fossil resources.
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The Living Light
Nova Innova
A ground-breaking technology called Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology enables us to generate energy from organic waste.
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mEat me
Theresa Schubert
In mEat me Theresa Schubert draws a radical consequence: if we treat humans the same as we treat animals, we should also be material and food.
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Remix el Barrio, Food Waste Biomaterial Makers
IaaC Fab Lab Barcelona, The Remixers
Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration: Awarded for innovative collaboration between industry or technology and the arts that opens new pathways for innovation. Over the last 30 years, plastic production has increased by 620%. In Catalonia alone, every day, 720,000 kg of food is thrown away. This wasted food, totaling 260,000 tons per year, is equivalent…
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Oceans in Transformation
Territorial Agency – John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog
Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration: Awarded for artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology. Oceans in Transformation investigates the impact of human activity on the world ocean. The global ocean is changing its circulations, energies, interactions, and…
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The Cleanroom Paradox
Felix Lenz, Angela Neubauer, Eszter Zwickl
Dismantling the deceptively pristine image of the high-tech industry The Cleanroom Paradox unveils the systemic suppression of information on occupational and toxic hazards at semiconductor production sites.