2021
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TheirTube
Tomo Kihara
Theirtube is an open-source web service that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people’s YouTube.
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Symbiosia
Thijs Biersteker
Plant Neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso and artist Thijs Biersteker created an artwork that uncovers the invisible tree-to-tree communication in real time to start a conversation about the effects of climate change.
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MycoMythologies
Saša Spačal
MycoMythologies is a series researching how fungal ontologies could help humans think, learn, and practice multispecies survival through practices of inclusion and caring.
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Lovewear
Emanuela Corti, Ivan Parati, Witsense
Lovewear is smart underwear that helps people of all abilities to self-explore and enhance their own intimacy and sexuality.
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In a Small Room
KyungJin Jeong
In a Small Room focuses on two social issues, the first being the problem of poor living conditions in modern metropolitan areas. The second issue is the dazzling advertising designed to inspire in potential consumers the wish to buy a service.
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The Tides Within Us
Fraunhofer MEVIS, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Natan Sinigaglia
A cross-sectoral project centered on utilizing high-end MR research results, The Tides Within Us is an ongoing exploration into the world beyond the limits of our senses at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
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Project Habitate
Yuning Chan, Tom Hartley, Yishan Qin
We designed a living wearable that enables people to become the hosts for endangered organisms, which in return gives them a sense of companionship and belonging, advocating a new concept of participatory conservation.
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ELEVENPLAY x Rhizomatiks “border 2021”
ELEVENPLAY, evala, Takayuki Fujimoto, Motoi Ishibashi, Daito Manabe, MIKIKO, Rhizomatiks
The dance company, ELEVENPLAY, the director-choreographer, MIKIKO, and the collective led by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, Rhizomatiks, presented a dance piece border in 2015. We developed and updated our experiment of 2015 to establish a new expression model for both online and on-site experience for the post-COVID-19 era.
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The [Uncertain] Four Seasons
Hugh Crosthwaite, Tim Devine, Adam Grant, Assoc Professor David Holmes , Mel Huang, Joachim Kortlepel, Gerard Mason, Dr Jaehyun Shin
In 2019 we set about reflecting the effects of global warming to date in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, using historical data to inform a musical system that transposed climate changes upon the original score.
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So far the Skies are silent.
Quadrature
What happens if artificial intelligences try to find an answer to one of the oldest mysteries of mankind?
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Glacier’s Lament
Jiabao Li
Glaciers are sentinels of climate change. This series of works embodies the stunning beauty, rapid change, fragility, and magnificence of glaciers.
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In Event of Moon Disaster
Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta
In Event of Moon Disaster illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technologies by reimagining the moon landing.