Nomination https://migrants-keyworkers-covid-19.odi.digital/ Key workers is a data visualization project designed with ODI. It aims to create a visual narrative of migrant workers’ contributions to the COVID-19 response, showing examples of reforms, new initiatives and campaigns on their contributions in healthcare and beyond. The project’s core element is represented by trees as a visual metaphor for…
Nomination https://www.gran-turismo.com/world/gran-turismo-sophy/ Gran Turismo SophyTM (GT Sophy) is a breakthrough in AI featured as a cover article in the Feb 10, 2022 edition of Nature. Sony AI in partnership with Polyphony Digital, maker of Gran Turismo and Sony Interactive Entertainment, which provided the cloud infrastructure for massive scale AI training, developed a revolutionary superhuman autonomous…
Nomination https://entanglement.annex.ie/Pavilion Entanglement explores the materiality of data and the interwoven human, environmental, and cultural impacts of information and communication technologies. It highlights how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape and examines Ireland’s place in the pan-national evolution of data infrastructure by foregrounding the material footprint of the internet and cloud services. The…
Nomination https://lightartspace.org/programme/ent Quantum computers are being intensely pursued by big tech companies, but they are not yet in the public’s consciousness. When fully developed, their immense processing power will undoubtedly change the world, enabling humans to see deeper into reality than ever before. This project aims to raise awareness around quantum computing through new visual…
Nomination https://superpower.lingql.com/ SUPERPOWER! is a community-led initiative that enables groups of people/communities to make sense of self-determined and complex urban issues in their environment via their own subjective perception. Participants use a set of social, gesture-driven, and data-collecting wearables to devise data experiments that capture their own perception of the issue in the form of…
Nomination https://annaanderegg.com/Alone-Together Alone Together is a performative piece and a film, by Swiss choreographer Anna Anderegg. It was premiered at the Gwangju Biennale in April 2021. The work was created with a team of artists from Europe and South Korea. For 30 years, we have seen the Internet gradually seeping into every corner of our…
Honorary Mention https://ambientweaving.lab.zozo.jp/en In its pursuit of beauty for over 1,200 years, with its distinctive structures and design, HOSOO’s Nishijin textiles have a rich history of pushing innovation by incorporating technology. This research project named Ambient Weaving aims to complement this by experimenting with the use of Nishijin textile as a medium for representing characteristics…
Honorary Mention www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DA7REdf8BI Switching on a device today is an automatic, almost magical gesture. To rethink this relationship to energy, we sought to make concrete the effort necessary for its production. And to raise a political question: if energy is limited, what do we decide to use it for? The challenge is twofold: to raise…
Honorary Mention https://uitsloot.nl A year-long quest on keeping the combustion engine alive in a fossil free future and celebrating the power and agency that DIY culture brings. Why depend on big corporations and their promises to save the world when you can do it yourself? The Slootmotor is the one vehicle that truly delivers an…
Honorary Mention With ecological relationships as the breakthrough point and based on plant intelligence research, the Plant Intelligence Plan recognizes the initiative and rights of plants. The plan uses biotechnology tools and materials to restore the ecological relationship between commercially bred crops and animals, which human beings have alienated. Ecological Art often discusses and thinks…
Honorary Mention https://theexplodedview.com The Exploded View Beyond Building (TEV BB) is an iconic exhibition in the form of a full-size house that is made entirely of biobased materials, circular construction methods, and stories about the changing value chain of which it is part. It showcases over 100 biobased materials. Our goal was to show what…
Honorary Mention https://www.valeryvermeulen.net/works/mikromedas/ Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001 is part of the multimedia project Mikromedas. Mikromedas is a data-driven music project in which the compositions produced use data stemming from space, deep space, and astrophysical simulation models. Unique systems and innovations in using astrophysical data and models as new tools for artistic creation were designed to realize…