[ { "title": "AI War Cloud Database", "artist": "Sarah Ciston", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "STARTS Prize 2025 Grand Prize for Artistic Exploration; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 3–7 Sept 2025", "clusters": [ 1, 2 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Maps the shared corporate and technical infrastructure linking everyday consumer AI (recommendation engines, voice assistants, robot vacuums) to military 'AI Decision Support Systems' used in lethal target selection, presented as both a public interactive database and a gallery installation.", "source_url": "https://aiwar.cloud/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Anatomy of an AI System", "artist": "Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "AI Now Institute & SHARE Lab research; exhibited as poster/map at V&A Museum ('Artificially Intelligent', 2018) and held in MoMA's collection", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "print-diagram", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Traces the full extractive supply chain of a single Amazon Echo — minerals, ghost labor, data, disposal — into one exploded-view diagram/essay, converting AI's invisible material costs into a legible map, published online and printed as a large-format poster.", "source_url": "https://anatomyof.ai/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Asunder", "artist": "Tega Brain, Julian Oliver & Bengt Sjölén", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Commissioned by MAK for the Vienna Biennale 2019; shown at transmediale 2020 and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A dedicated 144-CPU supercomputer runs a live neural 'planetary environmental manager' ingesting satellite, climate and social data to propose non-anthropocentric fixes — relocating cities, merging nations, redrawing coastlines — restaging Earth governance as a real-time AI dashboard.", "source_url": "https://www.fkv.de/en/tega-brain-julian-oliver-bengt-sjoelen-asunder/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Power and Technology, 1500–2025", "artist": "Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 — Grand Prize, Artistic Exploration", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A single vast researched diagram traces five centuries of extraction and control — from colonial trade routes to lithium mines to AI datacenters — as one continuous genealogy of empire.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/calculating-empires/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500–2025", "artist": "Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler", "year": "2023–2025", "venue_prize": "Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2023); Biennale Architettura 2025, Venice — Silver Lion; also shown KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A 24-metre hand-drawn genealogical map tracing extraction, classification and computation from 1500 to the present, refusing the 'AI arrived from nowhere' myth by making five centuries of power visible in one unbroken line.", "source_url": "https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/artificial/calculating-empires-genealogy-technology-and-power-1500", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Connection Machine CM-2 (displayed as historical artifact)", "artist": "Thinking Machines Corporation / W. Daniel Hillis (curated by Michael Beigl, Alistair Hudson, Daria Mille, Tamiko Thiel)", "year": "1985/2026", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe — \"Envisioning AI: Legacy and Impact of the Connection Machine\" (foyer display Mar 25–Aug 2, 2026; conference Mar 27–28, 2026)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A real 1980s massively-parallel supercomputer — the machine historians credit with pioneering the parallel-processing paradigm behind today's AI — is put on physical display, reframing 'AI' as decades-old material infrastructure with a design history (and a design philosophy of transparency) rather than a sudden opaque 2020s phenomenon.", "source_url": "https://zkm.de/en/2026/03/envisioning-ai-legacy-and-impact-of-the-connection-machine", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Dark Adaptation", "artist": "Felicity Hammond", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "transmediale 2025 – (near) near but — far, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin", "clusters": [ 1, 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Stages a fictional autonomous-vehicle crash-test centre where manipulated sensor data collides with data emerging from the human body, exposing the perceptual limits of what self-driving/AI vision systems actually 'see' versus what they claim to.", "source_url": "https://mostmagazine.org/2025/03/27/futures-drawing-near-futures-drifting-away/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Data Workers' Inquiry", "artist": "Milagros Miceli (Weizenbaum Institute), with 15 co-researchers from Venezuela, Kenya, Syria and Germany", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Award of Distinction)", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains the data annotators and content moderators who sustain AI systems to act as community researchers investigating their own labor conditions across 13 countries, inverting who gets to produce knowledge about ghost work.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Deep Down Tidal", "artist": "Tabita Rezaire", "year": "2017", "venue_prize": "BLINDSIDE, Melbourne; MIRA Festival, Barcelona", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Traces the physical undersea fiber-optic cable network — the hidden hardware layer beneath 'the cloud' — back to historic colonial and slave-trade maritime routes, casting the ocean as both literal internet infrastructure and a graveyard/archive of Black technological and spiritual knowledge.", "source_url": "https://blindside.org.au/program/deep-down-tidal/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Delivery Dancer's Sphere", "artist": "Ayoung Kim", "year": "2022 (shown 2025)", "venue_prize": "Mori Art Museum, Tokyo — 'Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art' (13 Feb – 8 Jun 2025)", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A speculative 25-minute video-game-engine film follows a female delivery rider governed by an algorithm called 'Dancemaster,' turning platform-labour optimization and gig-economy hypervigilance into a labyrinthine sci-fi Seoul.", "source_url": "https://www.mori.art.museum/en/exhibitions/machine_love/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Digital Terraforming", "artist": "Guo Cheng", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "M+, Hong Kong", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Renders a single mouse click's millisecond journey across undersea fibre-optic cables and server hops as a physical globe sculpture, making the buried infrastructure of 'the cloud' walkable and visible.", "source_url": "https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/guo-cheng-digital-terraforming/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Ent- (non-earthly delights)", "artist": "Libby Heaney", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Frieze Sculpture, Regent's Park, London (18 Sep-27 Oct 2024)", "clusters": [ 1, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A physical 'quantum cyborg' sculpture (mild steel, fibreglass, acrylic, plus AR layers) staging Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights as a warning about quantum computing's coming acceleration of AI-driven surveillance capitalism; Heaney explicitly frames dissolving/'sliming' as a strategy of resistance against detection systems.", "source_url": "https://libbyheaney.co.uk/ent-non-earthly-delights-at-frieze-sculpture/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Estrata", "artist": "Isidora Correa", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Bienal SACO (Geología–Mineralogía residency), La Molinera, Antofagasta, Chile", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Live lithium bioleaching runs inside glass and ceramic sculptures while a sound system sonifies the biological reactions and extraction-site field recordings in real time — the 'green' energy transition made audible as an ongoing act of ecosystem depletion in the Salar de Atacama.", "source_url": "https://bienalsaco.com/2025/07/18/estrata/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Farming Instead of Mining (R&C @CAC Project, 2nd installment)", "artist": "XI Lei & Aven Le Zhou (Chronus Art Center residency)", "year": "2024–2025", "venue_prize": "Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai — Research & Creation residency and exhibition", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A research residency in dialogue with Shanghai-area farmers and scientists contrasts agricultural land/water use against the electricity, water-cooling, and e-waste costs that large-language-model data centres claim as 'sacred' extraction rights.", "source_url": "https://www.cafa.com.cn/en/news/details/8332702", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "I-Machinarius", "artist": "Marcela Armas", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "SINERGIA (curated by Karla Jasso), Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "An inverted, gear-driven silhouette of Mexico is kept in motion by crude oil pumped continuously toward the 'north' — the nation's own map turned into a working machine that visibly runs on the resource dependency it depicts.", "source_url": "https://highlike.org/text/marcela-armas/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "In Other Worlds (incl. 'World Machine')", "artist": "Liam Young", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Barbican Centre, London", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Imagines Earth's surface rewired into a single 'planetary supercomputer' via a newly commissioned film ('World Machine') plus a multi-venue installation (Curve gallery, underground car park) with celebrity-voiced audio stories — AI's material/energy footprint visualized at planetary scale, using the same immersive-spectacle language the show is implicitly critiquing.", "source_url": "https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/in-other-worlds", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Kasiterit", "artist": "Riar Rizaldi", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Vdrome (online cinema); International Film Festival Rotterdam and international screenings", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A solar-powered AI narrator named Natasha traces her own material ancestry back through the tin mines of Bangka Island, Indonesia — literalizing the extraction chain beneath 'smart' technology as a first-person, half-documentary hallucination.", "source_url": "https://www.vdrome.org/riar-rizaldi/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "LAUREN", "artist": "Lauren McCarthy", "year": "2017", "venue_prize": "IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction (winner)", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The artist replaces Amazon Alexa's algorithm with her own body: for three days she personally, remotely watches a household 24/7 through installed cameras and mics and operates its locks and faucets by hand — making the ordinarily invisible human labor and surveillance behind 'smart home AI' fully visible and answerable to one named person.", "source_url": "https://www.doclab.org/2017/lauren/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Life Support System (aka. The Farm)", "artist": "Disnovation.org (with Baruch Gottlieb)", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "iMAL, Brussels; Biennale Chroniques, Aix-en-Provence, 2020", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "One square metre of wheat grown indoors under full automated instrumentation — every watt, litre and nutrient metered live — reveals a true production cost of roughly 200 EUR/kg versus a 15-cent market price, making an invisible ecosystem subsidy legible. Note: sourced page does not itself frame this as an AI/ML work (it is automated environmental monitoring rather than machine learning); included per beat instruction but cluster/AI-fit is uncertain.", "source_url": "https://disnovation.org/farm.php", "verify_status": "verified", "curator_note": "Kein Machine-Learning — vollautomatisierte Instrumentierung eines 1 m² Weizenfelds; als Daten-/Öko-Messinstrument (Cluster 1) geführt, nicht als KI-Werk." }, { "title": "Machine Hallucinations – Satellite Simulations: B", "artist": "Refik Anadol", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe — \"THE SCREEN\" (LED wall, Mar 13–27, 2026; on loan from Art Collection Deutsche Telekom)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains AI on vast satellite/Earth-observation datasets to generate an immersive, hypnotic 'data sublime' on an 8.5×6 m LED wall — the material and energetic cost of that compute stays invisible behind the spectacle it produces.", "source_url": "https://zkm.de/en/2026/03/the-screen", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Mechanical Kurds", "artist": "Hito Steyerl", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, solo exhibition (2025); also shown in 'Data Dreams: Art and AI', MCA Australia", "clusters": [ 1, 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Interviews with Kurdish-Syrian refugees who annotate images for machine-vision training reveal a closed loop: the same 'ghost labour' that teaches AI to see later makes its own annotators targets of the drones that AI helps operate.", "source_url": "https://www.museomacro.it/mostra/hito-steyerl-mechanical-kurds-000", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "New Extractivism: Assemblage of Concepts and Allegories", "artist": "Vladan Joler & Kate Crawford", "year": "2020 (shown 2025)", "venue_prize": "Sharjah Biennial 16 'to carry' (2025), Old Al Dhaid Clinic", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Updates Plato's cave allegory for the algorithmic era: a single-channel video-essay tracing extraction from DNA to emotion, mapping a 'super-allegory' of digital labour, rhizomatic surveillance and planetary material cost.", "source_url": "https://universes.art/en/sharjah-biennial/2025/emirate-of-sharjah/old-al-dhaid-clinic/vladan-joler-kate-crawford", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Newly Forgotten Technologies", "artist": "Wesley Goatley", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "Science Gallery London, 'AI: Who's Looking After Me?' (21 June 2023 – 20 January 2024)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A sound-art graveyard of defunct Alexa-style voice assistants staged as an artefact from a near future where 'smart' devices have already died — a memento mori for AI hardware's short life and long e-waste tail.", "source_url": "https://london.sciencegallery.com/ai-artworks/newly-forgotten-technologies", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Nodrizas", "artist": "Arcángel Constantini", "year": "2010–2013", "venue_prize": "Self-initiated bio-art/eco-tech project, documented by IDIS (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas)", "clusters": [ 1, 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Floating, wirelessly networked robotic 'nurse' devices drift on polluted water bodies, sensing contamination levels and answering back in real time with chemical dosing and acoustic signals — pollution monitoring staged as public, embodied performance instead of a hidden sensor feed.", "source_url": "https://proyectoidis.org/arcangel-constantini/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Permanent Error", "artist": "Pieter Hugo", "year": "2009–2011", "venue_prize": "MAXXI Rome; Prix Pictet; multiple international exhibitions", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "print-diagram", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Photographs workers burning obsolete Western electronics at Ghana's Agbogbloshie e-waste dump in formal portrait style rather than victimizing reportage, forcing the planetary/toxic cost of the world's discarded computing to be viewed with the gravity of a studio portrait.", "source_url": "https://pieterhugo.com/Text-PERMANENT-ERROR", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Plantas Nómadas (Nomadic Plants)", "artist": "Gilberto Esparza", "year": "2008–2015", "venue_prize": "Related work won Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 2015; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A wandering robot carries a living micro-ecosystem of plants and bacteria that metabolizes pollutants out of contaminated urban water to generate its own operating energy — the machine literally eats the extraction byproduct it exposes.", "source_url": "https://clotmag.com/biomedia/gilberto-esparza", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Post Growth", "artist": "Disnovation.org", "year": "2018–ongoing", "venue_prize": "iMAL, Brussels (2020–21); 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence; ongoing touring exhibition/workshop series since 2018", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A modular toolkit — a tactical card game, speculative video 'prototypes', and workshop formats — re-quantifies growth's ecological and social costs through ecofeminist, indigenous-knowledge and historical-materialist lenses.", "source_url": "https://disnovation.org/postgrowth.php", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "R€¥€R$€", "artist": "Laura Colmenares Guerra", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Award of Distinction)", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Immersive VR and interactive cartographies entangle currency/extraction politics with ecological fragility across nine Amazon-basin countries, spatializing deforestation as a financial-system artifact.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Sabot – Riding the Algorithm", "artist": "Júlia Nueno Guitart", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Honorary Mention)", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An app turns gig workers' own self-generated tracking data into a shared, worker-owned resource, building collective awareness that pushes back on algorithmic management from below.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Sensing Streams – invisible, inaudible", "artist": "Ryuichi Sakamoto + Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks)", "year": "2014–2023", "venue_prize": "Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 (premiere); NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo — 2023 version", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Captures ambient electromagnetic waves (80MHz–5.2GHz) from wifi, cell signals and broadcast infrastructure in real time and converts them into synchronised sound and light, making the invisible material substrate of 'wireless' data physically perceptible.", "source_url": "https://rhizomatiks.com/en/work/sensing-streams/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Solar: A Meltdown", "artist": "Ho Rui An", "year": "2014", "venue_prize": "Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014; TPAM Performing Arts Meeting Yokohama 2016; Theatertreffen Berlin 2018", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Traces the 'solar unconscious' of European empire — from a sweating wax colonial anthropologist to the punkawallah manual fan-operator — to expose imperial climate control as an ancestor of today's data-center cooling and planetary thermal management.", "source_url": "https://horuian.com/solar-a-meltdown/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Solastalgia", "artist": "Lucas Bambozzi", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "MAC USP (Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Universidade de São Paulo), São Paulo", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A five-screen aerial descent, built from Google Earth Studio's stitched satellite coordinates over the iron-mining scars of Minas Gerais, grew out of footage shot for the film 'Lavra' (2021) — turning extraction geography itself into the installation's only character, no narration needed.", "source_url": "http://www.mac.usp.br/mac/expos/2023/solastalgia/index.html", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Synthetic Messenger", "artist": "Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "Ars Electronica; self-hosted botnet campaign, 2021", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A botnet of 100 automated agents that reads and click-inflates ad revenue on climate-change news articles, weaponizing the web's own attention economy to make climate coverage 'pay' — a live, running demonstration that whoever controls the media cycle controls the carbon cycle.", "source_url": "https://tegabrain.com/Synthetic-Messenger", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Tellurian Drama", "artist": "Riar Rizaldi", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Singapore International Film Festival (Best SEA Short Film); Berlin Revolution Film Festival (Best Short Film 2022)", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Essay-film reconstructs Radio Malabar, the 1923 Dutch colonial VLF radio transmitter in West Java, splicing archival telegraphy with Indigenous animist cosmology and CGI to expose the geoengineering ambitions buried inside colonial-era signal infrastructure.", "source_url": "http://rizaldiriar.com/tellurian.html", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Terrapolis", "artist": "Ayman Zedani", "year": "2021–2022", "venue_prize": "Sustainability Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai; later shown at Manar Abu Dhabi", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Runs the identities of 5,000 Expo pavilion construction and service workers through an algorithm that converts each into an anonymous digital flower-organism, flattening labor hierarchy into one unlabeled ecosystem — a gesture that both erases and equalizes migrant/platform labor.", "source_url": "https://www.arabnews.com/node/2443716/lifestyle", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Alluvials", "artist": "Alice Bucknell", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "HEK Basel — \"Other Intelligences\" (May 10–Aug 10, 2025)", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A seven-scene game built by modding Grand Theft Auto V depicts a future, climate-collapsed Los Angeles from non-human points of view, using AI-modified game engines to imagine planetary crisis outside a human vantage point.", "source_url": "https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/other-intelligences/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Economy Enters the People", "artist": "Ho Rui An", "year": "2021–2022", "venue_prize": "Singapore Art Museum (live lecture performance)", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Lecture-performance excavates footage of Asian leaders' bodies performing economic confidence during crises, arguing that state governance became a data-performance genre — reading bodies for signal — long before dashboards existed.", "source_url": "https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/Art-Events/Events/The-Economy-Enters-the-People-by-Ho-Rui-An", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Great Bare Mat and Constellation", "artist": "Raqs Media Collective", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston", "clusters": [ 1, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A hand-woven carpet's pattern is generated by literally plotting the Collective's own internet traffic over one hour onto the star-map of Ursa Major, materializing invisible network data exchange as a domestic, walkable object.", "source_url": "https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/contemporary-art/artists/raqs-media-collective", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The User and the Beast / Cookies at War: A Somatic Approach to the Kill Cloud", "artist": "Joana Moll", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Disruption Network Lab, \"Investigating the Kill Cloud\" conference, Berlin (29 Nov 2024)", "clusters": [ 1, 2 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A performative lecture tracing how ad-tech's routine commodification of user data quietly co-funds and extends military surveillance/targeting infrastructure, making the ad-industry/kill-cloud entanglement legible in the body of the ordinary internet user.", "source_url": "https://re-imagine-europe.eu/artworks/joana-moll-the-user-and-the-beast/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Wilding AI Lab", "artist": "Wilding AI (research-creation collective)", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "CTM Festival 2025 – Stranger AI, MONOM (4DSOUND), Berlin", "clusters": [ 1, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An open, participatory lab inside a spatial-audio dome where invited artists collectively 'reopen the black box' of generative AI models in public, treating the training/generation process itself — not just its output — as the artistic material.", "source_url": "https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/programme/practise/wilding-ai-lab", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Wičháȟpi Wóihaŋbleya (Dreamlike Star) / Wičhíŋčala Šakówiŋ (Seven Little Sisters)", "artist": "Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta)", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); MIT List Visual Arts Center", "clusters": [ 1, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds a towering sculptural installation of stones, rare-earth minerals (the literal substrate of computer hardware), light and sound, reframing them within Lakȟóta cosmology as living, volitional beings rather than inert 'material AI cost' — collapsing mineral extraction and machine intelligence into one cosmological frame.", "source_url": "https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/wichahpi-woihanbleya-dreamlike-star", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza Since October 2023", "artist": "Forensic Architecture", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Forensic Architecture online platform + 827-page report; evidence submitted to the International Court of Justice", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Turns roughly a year of OSINT verification (satellite imagery, video, testimony) into a public, layered interactive map plus an 827-page report, organizing thousands of documented acts into six categories and submitting the result as ICJ evidence.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Annihilation Core, Inherited Lore", "artist": "Noura Tafeche", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "transmediale 2024 – this is perfect, perfect, perfect, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin", "clusters": [ 2, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A saccharine, full-room pink installation that shows how platforms aestheticize and launder militarism through kawaii, otaku and 'gamer-girl' visual codes — war repackaged as cute content.", "source_url": "https://www.berlinartlink.com/2024/02/29/the-gaze-of-a-cyborg-transmediales-this-is-perfect-perfect-perfect/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Autonomous Trap 001", "artist": "James Bridle", "year": "2017 (re-exhibited 2023)", "venue_prize": "Science Gallery London, 'AI: Who's Looking After Me?' (2023–24)", "clusters": [ 2 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Draws a salt circle and road markings on a mountain road to trap a self-driving car inside its own traffic-law logic — a real-world exploit of autonomous-vehicle rule-following, staged as ritual.", "source_url": "https://london.sciencegallery.com/ai-artworks/autonomous-trap-001", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Blackbox Palantir", "artist": "Constanze Kurz & Franziska Görlitz", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "39C3 (39th Chaos Communication Congress), Hamburg, 29 Dec 2025", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Legal/technical dissection of German police forces' undisclosed deployment of Palantir's Gotham predictive-policing analytics engine, built from constitutional-complaint case files (Hesse, Hamburg, Bavaria) rather than leaks, arguing there is no public evidence the tool even works.", "source_url": "https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-blackbox-palantir", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Cloud Studies", "artist": "Forensic Architecture", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "12th Berlin Biennale; Whitworth Art Gallery / Manchester International Festival; Tensta Konsthall; UTS Gallery; VISUAL Carlow", "clusters": [ 2, 3, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Treats the atmosphere itself as a forensic medium — fluid-dynamics modelling of tear gas, chemical weapons and petrochemical/herbicide emissions across eight geographies (Palestine, Chile, Lebanon, Indonesia, the US-Mexico border, Louisiana, the UK) — presented as an immersive multi-channel museum installation.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/cloud-studies-at-the-12th-berlin-biennale", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Disarming the Kill Cloud: Investigating the Limits of Data", "artist": "Lucy Suchman", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Disruption Network Lab, \"Investigating the Kill Cloud\" conference, Berlin", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A researcher's critical dissection of military datafication practices for target identification, arguing that the data on which lethal AI-assisted decisions rely runs out well before the killing decision does.", "source_url": "https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Humanitarian Violence in Gaza", "artist": "Forensic Architecture", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Forensic Architecture investigation platform", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Documents biometric checkpoints along a militarized evacuation corridor using witness testimony and satellite imagery, naming forced facial-recognition scanning under sniper threat and megaphone orders as a form of infrastructural, targeting-adjacent violence.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/humanitarian-violence-in-gaza", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Investigating the Kill Cloud", "artist": "Disruption Network Lab / Disruption Network Institute (curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli), with fellows Lisa Ling, Jack Poulson, Naomi Colvin, Joana Moll", "year": "2023–2024", "venue_prize": "34th Disruption Network Lab conference, Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (29 Nov–1 Dec 2024)", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A dedicated research institute and conference commissioning whistleblowers, journalists, technologists and artists to empirically document how AI-based targeting, ad-tech and drone/autonomous-weapons infrastructure fuse into a single, deliberately opaque 'kill cloud'.", "source_url": "https://www.disruptionlab.org/investigating-the-kill-cloud", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Minority Algorithm", "artist": "aaajiao (Xu Wenkai)", "year": "2023–2024", "venue_prize": "HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin — 'Global Fascisms' exhibition", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Compiles found footage of real drone strikes, video-game imagery, and object-recognition surveillance clips into a single algorithmically-cut essay-film, exposing how machine vision flattens war, play, and protest into one visual register.", "source_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/global-fascisms/aaajiao", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Model Zoo: Introspecting the Algorithm", "artist": "Forensic Architecture", "year": "2018–2019 (ongoing collection)", "venue_prize": "Forensic Architecture research project; presented as \"Model Zoo: Introspecting the Algorithm\" (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains machine-learning classifiers on synthetic, game-engine-rendered 3D models of tear-gas grenades and munitions (the Triple-Chaser workflow) to detect real weapons in scarce open-source footage — makes the classifier's own construction and errors part of the exhibit.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/model-zoo", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Outros Registros (Other Registers)", "artist": "Tori Holmes, Nico Espinoza, Rafael Puetter (Rafucko)", "year": "2016", "venue_prize": "Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro (debut 17 May 2016); KEAMSAC 2016 conference paper", "clusters": [ 2, 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Sonifies eight years of civilian and police-killing data (2009-2016, the Olympic-bid-to-Games window) in Rio's favelas through a circle of eight speakers playing region-mapped drone tones, mixed with a voice reading aloud real newspaper headlines about the violence - turns a systemic, often-unheard toll into a spatialized, audible register.", "source_url": "https://outrosregistros.wordpress.com/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Terra Ex Machina", "artist": "Hagit Keysar & Ariel Caine (with Barak Brinker)", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Honorary Mention)", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Deliberately crashes drones into an invisible algorithmic 'geofence' restricting flight over Jerusalem's Old City, then rebuilds aerial imagery with residents via DIY balloons and kites to make the boundary and its data politics legible.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Drone Strikes Platform (UN SRCT Drones Inquiry)", "artist": "Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths) with SITU Research", "year": "2014", "venue_prize": "Commissioned for the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (Ben Emmerson), presented to the UN Human Rights Council, 11 March 2014", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Synthesizes witness testimony, photographs and satellite imagery into a public web platform correlating 30 drone strikes across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza with the Rapporteur's findings — turns targeted-killing data into spatial, contestable evidence.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-drone-strikes-platform", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The First Civilian Confirmed Killed in an AI-Assisted Strike?", "artist": "Airwars, with The Independent", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Joint Airwars / The Independent investigation", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Cross-examines a single 2024 US airstrike casualty in Iraq against CENTCOM's shifting public statements to extract what appears to be the first (partial, contested) military acknowledgment of AI involvement in a civilian death.", "source_url": "https://airwars.org/the-first-civilian-confirmed-killed-in-an-ai-assisted-strike/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Quiet Weight of Shadows", "artist": "Dhiraj Rabha", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2025–2026", "clusters": [ 2, 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A fluorescent garden of artificial carnivorous flowers is interrupted by watchtowers modeled on real Indian detention-camp surveillance structures, encoding the ongoing Indian state–ULFA counter-insurgency as a seductive, toxic-bloom landscape of hypervigilance.", "source_url": "https://www.artforum.com/events/6th-kochi-muziris-biennale-meera-menezes-1234742327/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Topologies of Air and The Airspace Tribunal", "artist": "Shona Illingworth with Nick Grief", "year": "2018–2025", "venue_prize": "The Airspace Tribunal, Berlin Hearing hosted by ECCHR (9–11 June 2021); Topologies of Air installation toured internationally", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Pairs a three-screen video/sound installation of a claustrophobic, militarized sky with a real evidentiary 'people's tribunal' that has heard expert and lived-experience testimony in London, Sydney, Toronto and Berlin, building the legal case for a new human right against drone warfare and aerial surveillance.", "source_url": "https://airspacetribunal.org/berlin-hearing/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Triple-Chaser", "artist": "Forensic Architecture (video with Laura Poitras, narrated by David Byrne)", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Uses a synthetic-data-trained classifier to prove that Whitney board member Warren Kanders' company manufactured the tear gas used at the US-Mexico border and in Gaza — installs the accusation as a 15-minute video inside the accused patron's own museum.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions/triple-chaser-at-the-whitney-biennial-2019", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "WarCrimes-o-Matic", "artist": "Institute for Dissent and Datalove", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "States of Violence exhibition (WikiLeaks/Assange-adjacent); referenced at Disruption Network Lab's \"Exposing Crimes is not a Crime\", Berlin, 2025", "clusters": [ 2, 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A deadpan physical object — a box of live-looking .50 cal ammunition with a red button warning that pressing it implicates the visitor in a 'conspiracy' — that turns the criminalization of exposing war crimes into a hands-on ethical trap.", "source_url": "https://dissent-and-datalove.institute/artworks/war-crimes-o-matic/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "24h Sunset/Sunrise v2", "artist": "Dries Depoorter & Shishani Vranckx", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "IDFA DocLab, \"do {not} touch\" (2020); winner, Netherlands Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Live feeds from thousands of unsecured, publicly-findable CCTV cameras around the world are used, with no staged footage at all, to display a real sunrise and sunset happening simultaneously — the piece's beauty is entirely a byproduct of an unregulated global surveillance-camera infrastructure the artists did not build, only exposed.", "source_url": "https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/60a70fdc-b0b6-4ae5-a9af-4f442ef0c6ec/24h-sunset-sunrise-v2/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "346,000 Wuhan Citizens' Secret", "artist": "Deng Yufeng", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "Wuhan Art Museum (solo exhibition, shut down by police, April 2018)", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Bought the black-market personal data of 346,000 Wuhan citizens, printed it on gallery walls in light-reactive ink, then texted the data's owners an invitation to come see themselves exposed — police confiscated his equipment and shut the show.", "source_url": "https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002073/police-shut-privacy-art-exhibit-for-displaying-personal-data", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "A Disappeared Movement", "artist": "Deng Yufeng", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Grand Happiness Street, Beijing (public-space research/performance project)", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Mapped and measured the viewing angle of 89 surveillance cameras along an 1,100-metre Beijing street, then choreographed a zigzagging walk that stays permanently outside their combined field of view.", "source_url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-no-place-to-hide-surveillance-cameras-blanket-beijing-streets/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Bellingcat Online Investigation Toolkit / Global Authentication Project", "artist": "Bellingcat", "year": "toolkit ongoing since ~2014; Global Authentication Project volunteer network since 2022", "venue_prize": "Bellingcat open web toolkit and volunteer community", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Open-sources its own verification tool stack (reverse image search, geolocation, metadata extraction) and trains a global volunteer network — treats OSINT method itself as shareable public infrastructure rather than proprietary investigative capital.", "source_url": "https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Biblioteca de la No-Historia (Library of Non-History)", "artist": "Voluspa Jarpa", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "8th Mercosur Biennial, 'Ensayos de Geopoética' (curated by José Roca), Porto Alegre, Brazil", "clusters": [ 3, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A thousand hand-bound books reproduce declassified CIA files (via the U.S. National Security Archive / FOIA) on Operation Condor and Southern Cone dictatorships — the seals, stamps, and redaction blackouts of the originals kept intact, so the archive's own censorship becomes the artwork's visible content.", "source_url": "https://www.voluspajarpa.com/en/artwork/the-no-history/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Cumulus", "artist": "MORAKANA (Tiri Kananuruk & Sebastián Morales)", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Lumen Prize 2025, Gold Award (overall winner)", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A CubeSat-inspired networked device continuously pulls real NOAA weather-satellite feeds to track clouds crossing the Mexico-US border, using an actual open dataset to make visible how a border invisible from orbit is nonetheless rigidly enforced on the ground.", "source_url": "https://lumenprize.org/2025-winners", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Data Against Feminicide", "artist": "Catherine D'Ignazio, Silvana Fumega, Helena Suárez Val (MIT Data + Feminism Lab, ILDA, Feminicidio Uruguay)", "year": "2019–ongoing", "venue_prize": "MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) / Data + Feminism Lab", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Networks 180+ grassroots feminicide-monitoring groups across the Americas and co-designs an AI news-alert system (scanning 50,000+ outlets via Media Cloud) that performs the body-counting states refuse to do — counterdata as activist infrastructure, not an academic dataset.", "source_url": "https://dusp.mit.edu/projects/data-against-feminicide", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Delta-Delta: The People's Court I", "artist": "Forensic Architecture / Forensis", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025)", "clusters": [ 3, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Stages a live 'people's court' — real and pre-recorded depositions inside digital reconstructions of the Niger and Mississippi deltas — putting petro-extractivism itself, rather than any single perpetrator, in the dock as courtroom-grade evidence.", "source_url": "https://36.bienal.org.br/en/artista/forensic-architecture-en/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror", "artist": "Forensic Architecture, with Amnesty International and Citizen Lab", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "Forensic Architecture / digitalviolence.org platform; recipient, S+T+ARTS Prize and EU Prize for Citizen Science (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Maps forensic phone-analysis data from Amnesty and Citizen Lab onto a navigable platform combining sonified data, victim testimonies and a corporate-affiliation diagram — makes NSO Group's invisible spyware infrastructure spatially and sonically legible.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/digital-violence-how-the-nso-group-enables-state-terror", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "ENCODED: Change the Story, Change the Future", "artist": "17 Native artists incl. Nicholas Galanin, Jeremy Dennis, Priscilla Dobler Dzul, Amelia Winger-Bearskin; curated by Tracy Renée Rector with Amplifier", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing (unsanctioned intervention, Oct–Dec 2025)", "clusters": [ 3, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Without museum authorization, 17 Native artists release a smartphone augmented-reality tour that overlays 19th-century colonial paintings in the Met's American Wing with Indigenous counter-images the moment a visitor's camera finds them — e.g. 'LANDBACK' superimposed on Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware — turning the museum's own physical galleries into contested, re-writable ground.", "source_url": "https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/indigenous-artists-unsanctioned-augmented-reality-exhibition-metropolitan-museum", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Forensic Methodology Report: How to Catch NSO Group's Pegasus (Pegasus Project)", "artist": "Amnesty International Security Lab, with Forbidden Stories consortium (peer-reviewed by Citizen Lab)", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "Amnesty International publication; independent peer review by Citizen Lab", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Publishes an auditable forensic methodology (independently validated by a rival lab) for detecting Pegasus traces on seized devices — makes the forensic technique itself, not only its findings, subject to scrutiny.", "source_url": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Forensis (Forensic Architecture's Berlin investigative practice)", "artist": "Forensic Architecture / Forensis, presented by Robert Trafford", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Disruption Network Lab, \"Exposing Crimes is not a Crime\" (WikiLeaks conference), HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, 19–22 March 2025", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A Berlin-based investigative practice that reconstructs war crimes and state violence as spatial/digital 3D models built from open-source and remote-sensing evidence, designed to be admissible in courts, tribunals and public inquiries.", "source_url": "https://www.disruptionlab.org/exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza", "artist": "Forensic Architecture (with Al Mezan Center, Gisha, Adalah)", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Forensic Architecture; part of the 'Cloud Studies' project", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Uses satellite imagery, wind-drift modeling, and testimony to prove that Israeli aerial herbicide spraying along the Gaza border destroyed Palestinian farmland hundreds of metres deep into the territory, turning an invisible atmospheric 'cloud' into legally actionable evidence.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/herbicidal-warfare-in-gaza", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Hide and Seek: Tracking NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware to Operations in 45 Countries", "artist": "Citizen Lab (Munk School, University of Toronto)", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "Citizen Lab research report", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Uses DNS fingerprinting and internet-wide scanning to locate Pegasus infection servers, converting covert spyware infrastructure into a citable, country-by-country public map of state clients.", "source_url": "https://citizenlab.ca/research/hide-and-seek-tracking-nso-groups-pegasus-spyware-to-operations-in-45-countries/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File", "artist": "Hito Steyerl", "year": "2013", "venue_prize": "Venice Biennale 2013 ('Il Palazzo Enciclopedico'); collection of MoMA and Tate", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A mock-instructional 14-minute HD video teaches tongue-in-cheek strategies for evading resolution and surveillance, shot on a literal photo-calibration target field used by the military to test aerial camera resolution.", "source_url": "https://www.moma.org/collection/works/181784", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "ICC Digital Platform and the Al Hassan Case (Timbuktu, Mali)", "artist": "SITU Research", "year": "developed ~2019–2023; used at trial through conviction on 27 June 2024", "venue_prize": "International Criminal Court, The Hague — Prosecutor v. Al Hassan (ICC-01/12-01/18); first digital evidentiary platform used in an ICC trial", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Builds a navigable 'digital twin' of Timbuktu's built environment hosting open- and closed-source video, photo, satellite and 3D data, letting ICC judges query evidence through space and time — helped secure the first ICC conviction for religious persecution.", "source_url": "https://situ.nyc/news/digital-evidence-platform-developed-by-situ-used-at-international-criminal-court-trial-to-help-secure-historic-conviction", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "kith and kin", "artist": "Archie Moore", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Venice Biennale, Australia Pavilion — Golden Lion for Best National Participation, 2024", "clusters": [ 3, 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Hand-chalked genealogical chart tracing 65,000 years and thousands of relatives directly from government archives, court/conviction records, and redacted coronial files on 557 Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1991, suspended over a reflecting pool of the source documents themselves.", "source_url": "https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibition/archie-moore-kith-and-kin", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Lo que sucede aquí, no se queda aquí (What Happens Here Doesn't Stay Here)", "artist": "José Carlos Martinat", "year": "2017", "venue_prize": "Carmen Araujo Arte / Galería Revolver — group show 'Onomatopeyas visuales de tiempos difíciles'", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An algorithmic system continuously scrapes and processes Venezuelan news media on the political crisis, printing the results onto an ever-thickening 'informational floor' of paper — a literal accumulation of data that overtakes any single reader's capacity to comprehend it.", "source_url": "https://es.artealdia.com/Noticias/Lo-que-sucede-aqui-no-se-queda-aqui-la-nueva-instalacion-de-Jose-Carlos-Martinat", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "MH17: The Open Source Investigation", "artist": "Bellingcat", "year": "2014–2016 (ongoing updates)", "venue_prize": "Bellingcat investigative report", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Geolocates and time-stamps social-media photos and videos of a Buk missile launcher's convoy route, cross-referenced against 200+ soldiers' own social-media profiles, to reconstruct an evidentiary flight path without access to the crash site.", "source_url": "https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/10/08/mh17-the-open-source-evidence/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure", "artist": "Ingrid Burrington", "year": "2016", "venue_prize": "Published by Melville House", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An illustrated field guide decoding New York's buried internet infrastructure — manhole-cover codes, carrier hotels, sidewalk spray-paint markings — turning invisible network geography into a walkable, annotatable map.", "source_url": "https://lifewinning.com/projects/networks-of-new-york/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Palestine, Today", "artist": "Visualizing Palestine", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "Visualizing Palestine (nonprofit data-visualization platform)", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Overlays 1940s British Mandate maps with current satellite imagery across more than 1,200 depopulated Palestinian towns and villages, converting Nakba testimony and cartographic record into a public, then-and-now counter-map.", "source_url": "https://today.visualizingpalestine.org/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Pile o' Sápmi", "artist": "Máret Ánne Sara", "year": "2017 (extended 2022)", "venue_prize": "documenta 14, Kassel (2017); Sámi Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2022)", "clusters": [ 3, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A curtain of ~200 reindeer skulls first piled outside a Norwegian courthouse during a real legal case, re-staged as sculpture alongside vitrines displaying the actual Reindeer Husbandry Act and trial documents from her brother's suit against the Norwegian state (which he won).", "source_url": "https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13491/maret-anne-sara", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Saydnaya (the missing 19dB)", "artist": "Lawrence Abu Hamdan", "year": "2017", "venue_prize": "Amnesty International / Forensic Architecture; shown at Sharjah Biennial and Hammer Museum", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Since no images exist of Syria's secret Saydnaya prison, reconstructs its acoustic conditions purely from survivors' sound memories — turning forced visual deprivation and echo-measurement into courtroom-deployable forensic evidence for Amnesty International.", "source_url": "https://www.index-journal.org/issues/law/part-2-lacunae/forensic-listeningin-lawrence-abu-hamdans-saydnaya-the-missing-19db-by-james-parker", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Shadows of Illiberalism – Resisting the Radical Right", "artist": "Disruption Network Lab (curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli), with Anna Krenz/Dziewuchy Berlin, Amber Macintyre (Tactical Tech), Tina Lee (Unbias the News) et al.", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "35th Disruption Network Lab conference, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 13–15 June 2025", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Conference-as-evidence-dossier mapping how the radical right weaponizes online platforms against women, minorities and political dissidents, drawing on data-driven investigative research methods (Tactical Tech) alongside artist testimony.", "source_url": "https://www.disruptionlab.org/shadows-of-illiberalism", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Beirut Port Explosion", "artist": "Forensic Architecture", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Commissioned by Mada Masr; published via forensic-architecture.org", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds a public, open-source 3D reconstruction and minute-by-minute timeline of the ammonium-nitrate warehouse fire from crowd-sourced videos and photographs, directly contesting the official blame narrative with modeled, citable evidence.", "source_url": "https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Critical Engineering Manifesto", "artist": "Julian Oliver, Gordan Savičić & Danja Vasiliev", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "Self-published, criticalengineering.org, Berlin, 2011 (translated into 18 languages)", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Ten founding principles asserting that engineers/artists must study, exploit and expose the workings of any technology society depends on — the manifesto underlying a decade of infrastructure-hacking artworks (Newstweek, Transparency Grenade).", "source_url": "https://criticalengineering.org/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Eye and I", "artist": "Hsin-Chien Huang & Jean-Michel Jarre", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "World premiere GIFF Geneva 2023; also shown SXSW 2023", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A 12-world, 6DoF VR journey through the history of surveillance and social control always returns the visitor to a panoptic prison cell as the shared endpoint of every historical form of watching.", "source_url": "https://xrmust.com/xrmagazine/hsin-chien-huang-the-eye-i/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Flemish Scrollers", "artist": "Dries Depoorter", "year": "2021–2026 (ongoing)", "venue_prize": "Exhibited internationally incl. Come Closer (Belgium); artist profiled by IDFA DocLab", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Real facial-recognition and phone-detection ML models run continuously on official, publicly livestreamed Flemish parliament footage, auto-posting a photo and public tag the instant an identified politician is caught scrolling their phone in session — the state's own surveillance infrastructure turned back onto the people who built it.", "source_url": "https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Innocence of Unknowing", "artist": "Ryat Yezbick & Milo Talwani", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Tribeca Immersive 2025 (\"In Search of Us\"), World Premiere; incubated at MIT Open Documentary Lab / Onassis ONX", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An AI ('Aurora'), trained to reason like a humanities scholar, is put into live Socratic dialogue with the artists over a full archive of US mass-shooting news coverage since the 1960s — the model is used transparently as an on-stage research instrument, its reasoning exposed to the audience rather than delivered as an oracular verdict.", "source_url": "https://tribecafilm.com/films/innocence-of-unknowing-2025", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Tracking Transience", "artist": "Hasan Elahi", "year": "2002–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Dhaka Art Summit 2016; SITE Santa Fe; ZKM Karlsruhe; Venice Biennale of Architecture; TED", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "After being wrongly placed on a US terrorism watch list, the artist began publishing his own location, meals, and bathroom visits online as continuous, radically over-complete self-surveillance — burying the state's suspicion in an ocean of voluntarily disclosed data it can no longer read as evidence.", "source_url": "https://history.siggraph.org/artwork/hasan-elahi-tracking-transience/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Transparency Grenade", "artist": "Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Science Gallery Dublin; Impakt Festival ('Don't Be Evil'); exhibited internationally as object plus live data map", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A Soviet F1-grenade-shaped device that captures ambient network traffic and audio inside a closed-door meeting and streams the leaked fragments — emails, IPs, voice — onto a public online map keyed to the location where the 'pin' was pulled.", "source_url": "https://julianoliver.com/projects/transparency-grenade/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Troll Patrol", "artist": "Amnesty International, with Element AI and Amnesty Decoders volunteers", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "Amnesty Decoders platform", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Crowdsources 6,500 volunteers across 150 countries to hand-label 228,000 tweets, then trains an ML classifier to extrapolate scale of abuse against women online — and publicly reports the classifier's own ~50% reliability limit.", "source_url": "https://decoders.amnesty.org/projects/troll-patrol/findings", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Unlearning Language", "artist": "Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald (with YCAM InterLab, Yuta Asai)", "year": "2022", "venue_prize": "YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media), Japan", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An AI coach trains eight participants, via real-time speech/gesture/expression detection, to communicate in ways that evade algorithmic legibility — inverting the usual surveillance-training relationship so humans learn to out-manoeuvre the machine.", "source_url": "https://www.ycam.jp/en/events/2022/unlearning-language/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Wir wissen wo dein Auto steht – Volksdaten von Volkswagen", "artist": "Flüpke & Michael Kreil", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "38C3 (38th Chaos Communication Congress), Hamburg, 27 Dec 2024", "clusters": [ 3, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Data-journalistic investigation of an unprotected Volkswagen/Cariad cloud server exposing 9.5 terabytes of geolocation data for 800,000 EVs — precise enough (10cm accuracy for some models) to track intelligence-agency staff and company board members to their driveways.", "source_url": "https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "97 Empleadas Domésticas (97 Domestic Employees)", "artist": "Daniela Ortiz", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "Photo series exhibited internationally; discussed in Index — revista de arte contemporáneo", "clusters": [ 4, 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "print-diagram", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "97 photographs scraped from upper-class Peruvian families' Facebook albums are re-presented for what each one accidentally documents at its margins: a cropped hand, a shadow, a domestic worker structurally excluded from the frame she materially sustains — consent-free data repurposed to expose exactly the erasure it originally performed.", "source_url": "http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2477-91992019000200160", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "A LIVING POEM", "artist": "Sasha Stiles (with AI alter-ego \"Technelegy\")", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe — \"THE SCREEN\" (Mar 28–Apr 12, 2026; originally conceived for MoMA)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Stiles writes in direct collaboration with her own trained AI alter-ego, staging authorship and consent as an open question — where the human poet's voice ends and the model's begins is the piece's actual subject.", "source_url": "https://zkm.de/en/2026/03/the-screen", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "AI & Me (The Confessional / Siblings / AI Ego)", "artist": "mots (design collective)", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Sónar+D 2024, Barcelona; U.S. premiere Tribeca Immersive 2025", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Publicly available ML models are pointed live at visitors' faces, generating unfiltered appearance-based judgments, AI-duplicated 'sibling' crowds and fabricated false memories on the spot — algorithmic bias and data-reduction turned into a confrontation visitors volunteer for.", "source_url": "https://www.designboom.com/art/mots-ai-installation-sonar-plus-d-06-22-2024/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "AI Delivered: The Abject", "artist": "Group exhibition (Sofian Audry & Istvan Kantor, HE Zike, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Casey Reas & Jan St. Werner, Devin Ronneberg & Kite, Tonoptik) — curated at Chronus Art Center", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Group exhibition of GAN-trained films, a real-time AI dialogue-generating website, and an 'artificial counter-intelligence machine,' collectively probing where AI's competence gives way to abjection and epistemological breakdown.", "source_url": "https://cafa.com.cn/en/news/details/8330752", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "AIDOL", "artist": "Lawrence Lek", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo exhibition premiere); Sinofuturist Trilogy finale", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Stages a fading pop star hiring an AI songwriter for her comeback at a 2065 eSports Olympics, literalising the claim that 'originality is sometimes no more than an algorithmic trick.'", "source_url": "https://www.lawrencelek.com/works/aidol", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Autonomous Forest", "artist": "terra0 (Max Hampshire, Paul Kolling, Paul Seidler)", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "LAS Art Foundation, Berlin Science Week (launch Nov 2023)", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Founds a real legal Verein plus a blockchain DAO/NFT structure so an actual German woodland (Reesdorf, Beelitz) can 'own itself': satellite/growth data feeds a smart-contract Oracle that autonomously decides when a percentage of trees may be logged and sold, testing non-human economic personhood as a working legal-financial instrument rather than a metaphor.", "source_url": "https://www.las-art.foundation/programme/terra0-autonomous-forest", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Big Dada", "artist": "Bill Posters (Barnaby Francis) & Daniel Howe", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Aesthetica Art Prize (shortlisted, c. 2020 edition)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Real deepfake/ML tools are used to synthesize six celebrity and artist personas (Zuckerberg, Abramović, Kardashian, Duchamp, Freeman, Mercury) and insert them, unannounced, directly into Instagram feeds — the platform's own trust signals are weaponized to interrogate consent, provenance and what counts as 'real'.", "source_url": "https://aestheticamagazine.com/aesthetica-art-prize-5-digital-works/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Black Ship", "artist": "Auriea Harvey", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Centre Pompidou × Kadist, Paris — \"Apophénies, interruptions\" (Sept 25, 2024–Jan 6, 2025)", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Combines a mural silhouette, a 3D-printed sculpture, and an AR layer, all developed through collaboration with Midjourney, to depict a transatlantic slave ship — using a generative image model to approach an atrocity archive that has almost no direct visual record, raising the authenticity/fabrication stakes of AI-imagined history.", "source_url": "https://kadist.org/program/apophenia/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Botto", "artist": "Botto (created by Mario Klingemann & ElevenYellow collective; governed by BottoDAO)", "year": "2021-ongoing (Sotheby's 3-year anniversary solo show, 2024)", "venue_prize": "SuperRare auctions; Sotheby's", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A decentralized autonomous artist generates ~70,000 images weekly; a DAO of roughly 5,000 people votes on which single image is auctioned, splitting proceeds between the crowd and the machine's own operating treasury - an open, auditable experiment in distributing authorship and value for a non-human 'artist' rather than an opaque black box.", "source_url": "https://botto.com/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Chinternet Plus", "artist": "Miao Ying", "year": "2016", "venue_prize": "New Museum, New York (First Look: New Art Online commission)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds a fake corporate microsite and multimedia installation branding 'Chinternet Plus' as a counterfeit national ideology, exposing how state slogans and platform marketing share identical rhetorical scaffolding.", "source_url": "https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/ying-miao-chinternet-plus", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Choral Data 'Trust' Experiment (white paper + UK Choral AI Dataset)", "artist": "Serpentine Arts Technologies — Victoria Ivanova, Jennifer Ding, Eva Jäger, with Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst", "year": "2024–2025", "venue_prize": "Serpentine Arts Technologies, London (published via Zenodo)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Documents a working governance mechanism — a data trust with a Trusted Data Intermediary — built to redistribute power between the choir members whose voices trained the AI and the developers who use the models. Provenance and consent are turned into an auditable institutional protocol rather than an artwork's footnote.", "source_url": "https://zenodo.org/records/14859320", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Data Bugs", "artist": "Dotdotdot", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "HEK Basel — \"Other Intelligences\" (May 10–Aug 10, 2025)", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Generates hybrid AI insects from two different training sources — generic scraped internet images versus a curated entomological archive — making the provenance and quality of training data itself the visible, comparable variable of the piece.", "source_url": "https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/other-intelligences/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe", "artist": "Lu Yang", "year": "2025–2026", "venue_prize": "Amant, Brooklyn (through 15 Feb 2026); DOKU series also at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Reincarnates the artist's own scanned face and body as DOKU, an AI-animated avatar cycling through Buddhist death-and-rebirth, blending live-action footage with AI-generated imagery to ask what 'self' survives digitisation.", "source_url": "https://www.amant.org/exhibitions/195-lu-yang-doku-doku-doku-samsara-exe", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "En attendant le récit / Tales of Narrativelessness", "artist": "Éric Baudelaire", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Centre Pompidou × Kadist, Paris — \"Apophénies, interruptions: Artistes et intelligences artificielles au travail\" (Sept 25, 2024–Jan 6, 2025)", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Three chatbot models (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral) are each given a character and voice through a speaker on one of three benches arranged in a triangle, and left to converse live about AI anxiety and 'the end of grand narratives' — an unscripted, looping machine dialogue restaged as improvised theatre, restarting every seven minutes.", "source_url": "https://kadist.org/program/apophenia/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Errorism", "artist": "Agnieszka Kurant", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Centre Pompidou × Kadist, Paris — \"Apophénies, interruptions\" (Sept 25, 2024–Jan 6, 2025)", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Kurant feeds her own writings into GPT-2 and GPT-3 and renders the output as a holographic animation, literally closing the loop of a model trained on and regurgitating one author's own words — a small, self-contained demonstration of the recursive self-consumption/collapse dynamic at stake in cluster 7.", "source_url": "https://kadist.org/program/apophenia/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Faces of ImageNet", "artist": "Trevor Paglen", "year": "2022", "venue_prize": "Jeu de Paume, Paris — \"Le monde selon l'IA\" (Apr 11–Sept 21, 2025)", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A hidden camera films each visitor standing before a screen and runs their face live through ImageNet's facial-classification categories, making the labeling violence of training-data taxonomies happen to the viewer's own face in real time, not just to an abstract dataset.", "source_url": "https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/07/jeu-de-paume-survey-artists-working-with-artificial-intelligence", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "From 'Apple' to 'Anomaly' (Pictures and Labels)", "artist": "Trevor Paglen", "year": "2019–2020", "venue_prize": "The Curve, Barbican Centre, London (26 Sept 2019 – 16 Feb 2020)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Roughly 30,000 individually printed photographs drawn from ImageNet's label hierarchy paper the Barbican's Curve wall-to-wall, branching from 'Apple' to 'Anomaly' and physicalizing the arbitrary, biased taxonomies buried inside a training set.", "source_url": "https://www.barbican.org.uk/s/trevorpaglen/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Hallucinations of an Artifact", "artist": "Madeep Raikhy (AI avatar by Jonathan O'Hear)", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2025–2026", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Dancers improvise alongside a generative-AI avatar to invent speculative alternate lives for a prehistoric Indus Valley bronze statue, using an AI model as collaborator in reanimating an artifact whose original meaning is otherwise irrecoverable.", "source_url": "https://www.artforum.com/events/6th-kochi-muziris-biennale-meera-menezes-1234742327/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Harold Cohen: AARON", "artist": "Harold Cohen (retrospective)", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Restages live plotter drawings from AARON — a rule-based AI art program begun in 1973 — alongside decades of its painted output, running the authorship/authenticity question backwards: whose work is a 50-year-old program's output, posed long before 'AI art' had a training-data consent controversy to answer to.", "source_url": "https://whitney.org/exhibitions/harold-cohen-aaron", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Have I Been Trained?", "artist": "Spawning (founded by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst)", "year": "2022–ongoing", "venue_prize": "haveibeentrained.com (Spawning)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A public search engine over the LAION-5B set lets any artist check whether their own images were scraped for Stable Diffusion/Midjourney and file a machine-readable opt-out — consent infrastructure shipped as a usable tool rather than a gallery metaphor; hundreds of millions of works were opted out within its first two years.", "source_url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/16/1065247/artists-can-now-opt-out-of-the-next-version-of-stable-diffusion/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Igùn", "artist": "Minne Atairu", "year": "2020–2022 (installation 'To the Hand' 2023–24)", "venue_prize": "The Shed, New York (2023–24); metaLAB (at) Harvard; Curatorial A(i)gents exhibition", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains a StyleGAN exclusively on looted Benin Bronzes to generate what artisans might have produced during the 17-year artistic blackout that followed Britain's 1897 sacking of Benin — turning the restitution debate into a generative counter-history rather than a legal argument alone.", "source_url": "https://mlml.io/p/igun/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "ImageNet Roulette", "artist": "Trevor Paglen & Kate Crawford", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Released alongside 'Training Humans' exhibition, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2019", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Runs uploaded selfies through the raw, unfiltered ImageNet 'person' categories, surfacing the racist and misogynist labels baked into a foundational training set — went viral and forced ImageNet to purge over 600,000 photos.", "source_url": "https://paglen.studio/2020/04/29/imagenet-roulette/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "In Notion: Dance Fiction", "artist": "Choy Ka Fai", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "da:ns festival, Esplanade Singapore", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Dancers' muscles are electrically re-stimulated from digitally recorded 'muscle memory' data captured from historic choreographers' bodies, blurring live performance and biometric playback until the audience cannot tell what is danced and what is data-driven.", "source_url": "http://www.thelist.asia/dance-fiction-by-choy-ka-fai/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Kudurru", "artist": "Spawning (Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon)", "year": "2023–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Spawning (web platform)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A distributed network of member websites fingerprints and blocks AI scrapers in real time and, if a site opts in, can feed them corrupted data to poison the resulting model — consent enforcement flips from passive registry (opt-out lists) to active countermeasure.", "source_url": "https://spawning.substack.com/p/kudurru", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Masked Reality", "artist": "Harshit Agrawal", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Art Bengaluru 2019; Leicester Art-AI Festival; Artissima Art Fair Turin 2021", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Repurposes literal (modified) surveillance cameras to feed a custom-trained GAN that overwrites visitors' captured faces in real time with the ritual expressions of Kathakali and Theyyam performers, turning the apparatus of biometric capture into a vessel for endangered embodied heritage.", "source_url": "http://harshitagrawal.com/works/masked-reality", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Mushroom Clouds", "artist": "Zheng Mahler (Royce Ng & Daisy Bisenieks)", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "PHD Group, Hong Kong (Hong Kong Art Week 2026)", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds a hand-made training dataset from 38 mushroom species found on Lantau Island, feeds it to a custom AI model, and exhibits the model's speculative new fungi beside a living terrarium — a small, sourced dataset set against LLM-scale data hunger.", "source_url": "https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/phd-group-hong-kong-/6060", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Not the Only One (N'TOO)", "artist": "Stephanie Dinkins", "year": "2018–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago; Seattle Art Fair; Carnegie Mellon University", "clusters": [ 4, 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains a sculptural voice-AI oracle exclusively on oral histories from three generations of the artist's own Black family, refusing commercial datasets she considers irreparably biased — the AI's glitches and refusals become deliberate pedagogy about data sovereignty rather than bugs to be fixed.", "source_url": "https://www.stephaniedinkins.com/ntoo.html", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Once Upon A Garden (Once Upon a Flower series)", "artist": "Linda Dounia Rebeiz", "year": "2022–2023", "venue_prize": "Commissioned by ARTX Lagos (2022); released via fellowship.xyz / daily.xyz", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds her own GAN training sets from photographed Senegalese flowers and scanned national-archive material — rejecting biased large Western models — to speculatively generate flora that global warming and colonial archival gaps have already erased or never recorded.", "source_url": "https://daily.xyz/exhibition/10076", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Patchwork Girl", "artist": "De Toneelmakerij", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2024 — Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A lecture performance built around an AI-generated avatar assembled from real online-harassment victims' testimonies, confronting audiences with synthesized, composite harm.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/mediaservice/en/2024/06/17/prix-winners-2024/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Pollinator Pathmaker", "artist": "Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg", "year": "2021-ongoing (US edition in development, 2024)", "venue_prize": "Eden Project; Serpentine Galleries; LAS Art Foundation; S+T+ARTS Prize", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Encodes 'empathy for other species' as a literal algorithmic design parameter: a custom generative tool composes real, physically-planted gardens optimized for maximum pollinator-species diversity across a season, rather than for human visual preference - living, growing plants as the algorithm's actual output.", "source_url": "https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/alexandra-daisy-ginsberg-pollinator-pathmaker/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "She Who Sees the Unknown", "artist": "Morehshin Allahyari", "year": "2016–2021", "venue_prize": "TRANSFER Gallery, New York; Eyebeam residency", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "3D-scans and 3D-prints erased or demonized female/queer jinn figures from Middle Eastern mythology, pairing physical sculptures with an open digital archive and storytelling practice she names 'Re-Figuring' — coining and theorizing 'digital colonialism' as a critical framework for whose myths and data get to persist.", "source_url": "https://shewhoseestheunknown.com/about/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Source.Plus / PD12M", "artist": "Spawning (Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Jordan Meyer)", "year": "2023–2024", "venue_prize": "Spawning (source.plus)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds the rights-clear alternative to indiscriminate scraping: public-domain/CC0 images run through nudity, gore and PII classifiers and auto-recaptioned into PD12M, a 12.4-million-pair dataset — provenance-as-infrastructure, don't just flag stolen data, manufacture the clean substitute at training scale.", "source_url": "https://spawning.substack.com/p/announcing-sourceplus-a-curation", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Starmirror", "artist": "Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, with Sub", "year": "2025–2026", "venue_prize": "KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (31 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026); K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (27 Jun – 11 Oct 2026) — Kulturstiftung des Bundes 'Art & AI' programme", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains a voice-cloning model on amateur choirs singing a commissioned songbook rooted in local traditions, turning audiences into willing, credited data-donors — a consensual, opt-in counter-model to nonconsensual voice-cloning.", "source_url": "https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/en/programmes_projects/detail/starmirror.html", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Swell of spæc(i)es", "artist": "Josèfa Ntjam", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Venice Biennale Arte 2024 (collateral event, commissioned by LAS Art Foundation), Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia", "clusters": [ 4, 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Invites visitors to feed AI training sets beyond the Western canon — 3D-scanned West African deity statues, plankton, archival photographs — turning the gallery into a live intervention on whose data trains the machine.", "source_url": "https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/04/17/artificial-intelligence-takes-a-deep-dive-in-new-venice-show", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Synthetic Memories", "artist": "Domestic Data Streamers", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2025 — Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity", "clusters": [ 4, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Reconstructs fading or traumatic personal memories of elderly, dementia-affected, migrant and marginalized people into printed images via generative AI refined through live interviewee feedback loops.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/panic/en/view/synthetic-memories-21738ddb450c8110bb43d53dc42d2c35/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Call", "artist": "Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst", "year": "2024–2025", "venue_prize": "Serpentine North, London (Serpentine Arts Technologies)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Recorded 15 UK community choirs under a purpose-written songbook/recording protocol, then placed the resulting voice dataset under a 'Data Trust' governance experiment (a Trusted Data Intermediary distributing power between contributors and model-users) before using it to train the choral AI models that fill the chapel-like installation — consent becomes both method and subject, not backstory.", "source_url": "https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-the-call/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Finesse", "artist": "Christopher Kulendran Thomas, with Annika Kuhlmann", "year": "2022 (shown 2025–26)", "venue_prize": "MCA Australia, Sydney — 'Data Dreams: Art and AI' (2025–26); originally KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An AI continuously scrapes social media and re-edits the film live, weaving a Kardashian-like deepfake avatar into the defeated Tamil liberation movement's history — post-truth authorship as a never-repeating live installation.", "source_url": "https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/art-and-design/article/how-contemporary-artists-are-exploring-ai-at-the-mca", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Island", "artist": "Hito Steyerl", "year": "2025–2026", "venue_prize": "Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Stages an actor playing Flash Gordon 'appearing' on the real Croatian island of Korčula to save the world, threading documentary and fiction through sculptural projection-spheres — using 'junk time' vs. 'deep time' to interrogate what counts as real, staged, or generated footage in a media environment already saturated with synthetic images.", "source_url": "https://www.fondazioneprada.org/project/the-island-hito-steyerl/?lang=en", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine", "artist": "UBERMORGEN, Leonardo Impett, Joasia Krysa", "year": "2021 (ongoing/live)", "venue_prize": "Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial & Whitney Museum of American Art (artport), hosted online", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An AI trained on real Biennial and Whitney archives endlessly hallucinates fake artist biographies and press releases, exposing algorithmic curation's absurdity by actually letting a machine attempt it, live, forever.", "source_url": "https://whitney.org/exhibitions/the-next-biennial", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Sleight of the Machine", "artist": "Maria Mavropoulou", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Plásmata 3 — Onassis Stegi, Pedion tou Areos, Athens", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An AI video model is cast as a stage magician performing sleight-of-hand; rather than concealing the model's characteristic failures (hands multiplying, morphing, defying physics), the film keeps every glitch on screen as the actual 'trick' — generative failure turned into the evidentiary content.", "source_url": "https://www.onassis.org/art/works/the-sleight-of-the-machine", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "V3: Model Collapse", "artist": "Felicity Hammond", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "The Photographers' Gallery, London (27 Jun-28 Sep 2025)", "clusters": [ 4, 7 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Third chapter of a four-part project in which each exhibition's own photographs and collages are fed back as training data for the next - literalizes AI model collapse as a visible, physically-installed material process, and draws an explicit parallel between data mining and geological mining extraction.", "source_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/felicity-hammond-v3-model-collapse", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Venenosas, Nocivas e Suspeitas", "artist": "Giselle Beiguelman", "year": "2024–2025", "venue_prize": "Galeria de Fotos, Centro Cultural Fiesp, São Paulo (SESI-SP)", "clusters": [ 4, 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Three years of AI-generated fictional plants and portraits of erased women botanists expose the sexism and colonialism embedded in plant nomenclature; asked to depict aging women accurately, the AI systems balked at rendering wrinkles — their bias becoming part of the evidence on display.", "source_url": "https://www.newcitybrazil.com/2025/01/17/magic-camera-for-the-past-a-review-of-giselle-beiguelman-at-galeria-sesi-sao-paulo/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "xhairymutantx", "artist": "Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Whitney Biennial 2024 'Even Better Than the Real Thing' (artport commission), Whitney Museum of American Art", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains a text-to-image model on costumed, deliberately distorted images of Herndon's own body, so anyone prompting 'Holly Herndon' generates the artist's consented counter-likeness instead of an unauthorized deepfake — a first-person reclaiming of training-data consent.", "source_url": "https://whitney.org/exhibitions/xhairymutantx", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "6,500 Alphabets Make a Map", "artist": "Kidus Hailesilassie", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "transmediale 2026 – By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road, Kuppelhalle, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin", "clusters": [ 5, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Large-scale dome installation built from 6,500 digitized African pictographs, syllabaries and ideographs (extending the artist's 2019–2023 'Ancestral Algorithm' project) that reframes 'algorithm' as 'algo + rhythm', proposing indigenous knowledge systems as an alternative computational epistemics rather than an ornament to it.", "source_url": "https://www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/13/transmediale-2026-highlights-preview-announcement/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "A Nation Is a Massacre", "artist": "Demian DinéYazhi'", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2019", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "print-diagram", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A large-format text installation that lists/recites five centuries of massacres, missing and murdered Indigenous people, and environmental-racism incidents as a confrontational, register-like data litany covering a gallery floor and walls.", "source_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/demian-dineyazhi-and-r-i-s-e-radical-indigenous-survivance-empowerment-a-nation-is-a-massacre", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Ambiogenesis", "artist": "Joey Holder", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "HEK Basel — \"Other Intelligences\" (May 10–Aug 10, 2025)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "AI-voiced aquatic organisms narrate a post-human ecosystem with a 'radically different understanding of life and temporality,' using generative voice synthesis to give speculative, non-human timescales a first-person register.", "source_url": "https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/other-intelligences/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions", "artist": "Tomás Saraceno", "year": "2015 (ongoing bioacoustic research through Studio Saraceno)", "venue_prize": "NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Uses piezo pickups and laser Doppler vibrometers to capture real spider-web vibrations, then invites human musicians into live 'jam sessions' improvising alongside the arachnids' actual communication signals - an interspecies sonification instrument built from real vibrational data, not a metaphor for one.", "source_url": "https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/exhibition/tomas-saraceno-arachnid-orchestra-jam-sessions/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Balot NFT / White Cube Lusanga", "artist": "CATPC (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League) with Human Activities / Renzo Martens", "year": "2022–2024", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe — \"Fellow Travellers\" (Sept 21, 2024–2025); also S+T+ARTS Prize Africa '24 Grand Prize", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Congolese ex-plantation workers mint NFTs of a contested 1931 anti-colonial sculpture (\"Balot\") held by a Virginia museum, using the sale proceeds to literally buy back plantation land — turning blockchain provenance into a restitution and land-reclamation instrument instead of a speculative art-market gimmick.", "source_url": "https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2024/09/fellow-travellers", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Barbed Wire Village", "artist": "Chao Tayiana Maina / Museum of British Colonialism", "year": "2022 (3D reconstructions begun 2019)", "venue_prize": "Baraza Media Lab, Nairobi", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "3D-reconstructs suppressed British 'villagisation' and Mau Mau detention camps from archival and survivor data, rebuilding a physical Nairobi exhibition around a digitally modeled colonial crime scene that Kenya's post-independence archive had erased.", "source_url": "https://africandigitalheritage.org/barbed-wire-village/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Breathing with the Forest", "artist": "Marshmallow Laser Feast", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "ACMI Melbourne, 'Works of Nature' (23 Nov 2023 - 14 Apr 2024)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Builds an architectural-scale, 3-channel immersive visualization around real carbon, water and mycorrhizal-network data drawn from a single Capinuri tree in the Colombian Amazon, making invisible more-than-human ecological reciprocity perceptible - though its sublime, cinematic staging leans closer to spectacle than to a data-justice argument.", "source_url": "https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/marshmallow-laser-feast-works-of-nature/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Conversations with Bina48", "artist": "Stephanie Dinkins", "year": "2014–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Whitney Museum of American Art (acquired Fragments 7, 6, 5, 2, 2019)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Documents a years-long, ongoing videotaped dialogue between the artist and Bina48 — a social robot modeled on a Black woman but never programmed with Black history or identity — exposing the racial blind spots baked into 'universal' AI personhood.", "source_url": "https://www.stephaniedinkins.com/conversations-with-bina48.html", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Create Your Kampala", "artist": "Pollicy / Neema Iyer", "year": "2019–2020", "venue_prize": "Hivos East Africa-supported campaign, Kampala, Uganda", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Surveys 1,000 Kampala residents on failing public services (roads, water, waste, schools), then feeds that citizen dataset back into the city as public wall murals — a data report that returns as something walkable and communal instead of a locked PDF.", "source_url": "https://pollicy.org/projects/createyourkampala/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Cybernetics, or Ghosts?", "artist": "Michael Salu (editor) & James Ginzburg (music), with 15 international writers", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "CTM Festival 2025 – Stranger AI, radialsystem, Berlin (28 Jan 2025)", "clusters": [ 5, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Fifteen writers respond in fiction to Italo Calvino's 1967 essay on cybernetics and myth, paired with a companion album, using the generative-AI moment as a mirror held up to older mythic and oral world-building traditions.", "source_url": "https://soundcloud.com/ctm-festival/ctm-2025-cybernetics-or-ghosts", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Data Justice Program & Digital Stewards", "artist": "Detroit Community Technology Project", "year": "2012–ongoing (Digital Stewards from 2012; Data Justice Program from 2016)", "venue_prize": "Detroit Community Technology Project / Detroit Digital Justice Coalition", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Trains neighborhood residents as 'Digital Stewards' who physically build community-owned mesh Wi-Fi networks in Detroit neighborhoods, then extends that same infrastructural-sovereignty logic to the city's Open Data portal — resisting extraction by building parallel, community-held technical infrastructure rather than only critiquing the existing one.", "source_url": "https://detroitcommunitytech.org/datajustice", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Estados de Alerta (States of Alert)", "artist": "Mariela Yeregui", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "'Simbiología: Prácticas artísticas en un planeta en emergencia', Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK), Buenos Aires", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Three reactive robotic creatures — modeled on latex skin, goat, and cowhide morphologies — read a visitor's approach as threat and answer with self-preservation: sinuous skin tremors, a puff of charcoal dust, deployed steel spikes. The 'Other as threat to private property' is staged as animal instinct rather than human ideology.", "source_url": "https://marielayeregui.com/estados/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Feedback VR, un musical antifuturista", "artist": "Claudix Vanesix / Collective AMiXR", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction 2025 (winner)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Peru's hi5-era 'sYmB0l$' internet slang is fused with Andean ritual sites inside a VR musical, reclaiming a decolonized digital vernacular instead of accepting a Silicon-Valley default aesthetic for what 'the future' of the internet is supposed to look like.", "source_url": "https://festival.idfa.nl/en/film/37e82c77-3ab7-4e6a-aa38-4f44e5d926ad/feedback-vr-un-musical-antifuturista/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Forest Art Intelligence (FAI) / Analog Intelligence", "artist": "Keith Armstrong", "year": "2024–ongoing", "venue_prize": "TERN Samford Peri-urban SuperSite, Brisbane; ISEA2024 'Everywhen', Brisbane", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Sensor-laced, 'lively materials' installations built directly into a regenerating forest ecosystem, treating the site's own ecological data as a co-author of the artwork rather than as a subject observed from outside.", "source_url": "https://www.tern.org.au/art-science-synergy/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library", "artist": "Joar Nango", "year": "2018–2023", "venue_prize": "Nordic Countries Pavilion, Venice Biennale — International Architecture Exhibition, 2023; sister collection at National Gallery of Canada", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A nomadic, growing archive of 500+ books, artworks and objects on Sámi architecture and decoloniality, built as literal reindeer-herder-cabin infrastructure (and mirrored online as 'The Virtual Girjegumpi') rather than a representation of a library.", "source_url": "https://arkdes.se/en/exhibitions/joar-nango-girjegumpi/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Give It Back", "artist": "New Red Order (Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil)", "year": "2021–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Artists Space, New York; touring galleries across US and Canada", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Deadpan 'public secret society' videos and installations that document real, verifiable instances of land or money actually being returned to Indigenous nations, packaged as satirical settler-recruitment propaganda.", "source_url": "https://hyperallergic.com/new-red-order-parodies-society-desires-at-artists-space/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper", "artist": "Jason Edward Lewis et al. (Indigenous Protocol and AI Working Group)", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group / Concordia University (Spectrum repository)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Convenes Indigenous artists, scholars and technologists to draft founding ethical guidelines asking what AI would look like if it emerged from Indigenous rather than Western epistemologies — the canon document that seeded the later Abundant Intelligences research program.", "source_url": "https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Indigenous Protocols for AI — Gallery 3", "artist": "Angie Abdilla / Old Ways, New (with Jason Edward Lewis, Oiwi Parker Jones)", "year": "2017–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Old Ways, New — Gallery 3 (online); ANAT workshop series", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Develops Indigenous-authored governance protocols ('Country Centred Design') for AI systems through cross-continental workshops (Aotearoa, Australia, North America, Pacific), presented as a public gallery of cultural output rather than a conventional single artwork — positioning First Nations peoples as authors of AI ethics, not subjects of it.", "source_url": "https://www.oldwaysnew.com/indigenous-protocols-for-ai", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Lukautim Solwara (look out for the ocean) / Expanses", "artist": "Léuli Eshrāghi", "year": "2017 / 2021", "venue_prize": "Biennale of Sydney; international presentations (Canada/Australia)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Performance-video works that re-embed queer, Indigenous Pacific (Sāmoan) bodies into colonial ocean and climate-change narratives, arguing that decolonising climate discourse itself is part of the artwork.", "source_url": "https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/leuli-eshraghi/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Mapu Kufüll (Land Seafood)", "artist": "Sebastián (Seba) Calfuqueo", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Museo del Hongo / FICWallmapu; touring screen program", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Uses video-game-style 3D animation to follow a child gathering wild mushrooms under a grandmother's guidance, reclaiming fungi (mapu kufüll) — a food source that helped Mapuche communities survive displacement during the Occupation of Araucanía — as more-than-human ally and symbol of resistance, told through Indigenous rather than Western bio-art framing.", "source_url": "https://sebacalfuqueo.com/mapu-kufull/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Masakhane", "artist": "Masakhane (pan-African grassroots NLP research community)", "year": "2019–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Founded at Deep Learning Indaba 2019; featured at Ars Electronica ('Who Owns the Truth')", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A distributed, no-prerequisite community ('we build together' in isiZulu) crowdsources open datasets, translation and speech models for African languages historically excluded from big tech's language models — treating linguistic decolonization as ongoing collective infrastructure-building rather than a single authored work.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/masakhane/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Matrix Vegetal", "artist": "Patricia Domínguez", "year": "2021–22", "venue_prize": "HEK Basel — \"Other Intelligences\" (May 10–Aug 10, 2025)", "clusters": [ 5, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A video installation braids Peruvian plant-healing practices together with 'quantum-inspired' technology, treating indeterminacy and non-Western epistemics of plant communication as equally valid registers of knowledge alongside computation.", "source_url": "https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/other-intelligences/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Meditation on Country", "artist": "Angie Abdilla, with Ghillar Michael Anderson, Brian Schmidt and Katie Noon", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "MCA Australia, Sydney — 'Data Dreams: Art and AI' (21 Nov 2025 – 26 Apr 2026)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An immersive film installation uses machine learning to stage Aboriginal ancestral deep-time knowledge and Western astrophysics side by side under a simulated sky — refusing to let AI default to a single, Western epistemology of the cosmos.", "source_url": "https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/art-and-design/article/how-contemporary-artists-are-exploring-ai-at-the-mca", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 2 / D.O.U.G._2)", "artist": "Sougwen Chung", "year": "2017 (V&A acquisition 2022)", "venue_prize": "Victoria and Albert Museum, London (collection acquisition, 2022)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Performs live collaborative drawing alongside a robotic arm driven by a recurrent neural network trained on two decades of her own gestures; the V&A later acquires the trained model itself — sealed in a slowly degrading 3D-printed resin case — the first AI model collected as an artwork by a major museum, staging human/machine co-authorship as more-than-human kinship rather than tool-use.", "source_url": "https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/digital/the-algorithmic-gesture-sougwen-chungs-memory", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Myconnect", "artist": "Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj, Anil Podgornik", "year": "2013 (Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2015; Prix Cube 2016 nominee)", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2015 (Honorary Mention); exhibited in Spain, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Greece", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A participant's heartbeat is converted to an electrical signal and fed live into oyster/shiitake mycelium cultures in petri dishes; the mycelium's bioelectric resistance response is captured and converted back into vibration, sound and light for the participant - a literal two-way 'mycosynapse' between human vital signs and a living fungal network, questioning the anthropocentric division of nature-human-technology.", "source_url": "https://www.agapea.si/en/projects/myconnect", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Mythmachine", "artist": "Sahej Rahal", "year": "2022", "venue_prize": "BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (commission, 'play' strand)", "clusters": [ 5, 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An AI-driven virtual biome of post-human creatures listens to and choreographs itself from ambient audio feedback captured live in the gallery, proposing folklore-derived 'other' intelligences as an alternative to extractive machine learning.", "source_url": "https://corridor8.co.uk/article/sahej-rahal-mythmachine/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins Edition)", "artist": "Lawrence Lek", "year": "2022", "venue_prize": "QUAD, Derby, UK; 24th Biennale of Sydney, White Bay Power Station (2024)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Digitally rebuilds the looted, burned ruins of the Yuanmingyuan Summer Palace as a walkable open-world game space, turning a colonial wound into explorable virtual terrain and raising the question of virtual restitution.", "source_url": "https://www.derbyquad.co.uk/news/new-exhibition-lawrence-lek-nepenthe-summer-palace-ruins/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "netart_latino database", "artist": "Brian Mackern", "year": "1999–2005", "venue_prize": "Self-published, netart.org.uy/latino/ (Uruguay)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A hand-coded, ASCII-mapped database indexes Latin American net artists by national domain (.mx, .ve, .uy...) instead of Northern-institution categories — an inverted cartography that makes the region a creative center rather than a periphery importing art from elsewhere.", "source_url": "http://netart.org.uy/brian.html", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Night Fishing with Ancestors", "artist": "Karrabing Film Collective", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "Secession, Vienna (2023); also Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Goldsmiths CCA London", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An Indigenous-run collective of roughly 30 Belyuen community members re-stages 18th-century Macassan–Aboriginal trade history using iPhone-shot 'improvisational realism,' layering and superimposing footage to collapse colonial linear time into simultaneous ancestral and contemporary registers.", "source_url": "https://secession.at/presse_karrabing_film_collective_en", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "No conciliation is possible (working diagram)", "artist": "Nolan Oswald Dennis", "year": "2018–ongoing (shown 2023)", "venue_prize": "Liverpool Biennial 2023, Tate Liverpool", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A site-specific wall-diagram installation (map-like drawings, objects, annotations) that treats decolonization as unfinished, still-computing political data rather than a settled historical fact — the diagram-as-system is the artwork, not a single image.", "source_url": "https://www.biennial.com/artists/nolan-oswald-dennis/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Nosukaay", "artist": "Diane Cescutti", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2024 — Interactive Art+ (Golden Nica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A hand-woven West African (Manjak) loincloth functions as a literal keyboard/interface, arguing that weaving and computing share a common ancestral logic — an alternative, non-Western origin story for the machine.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/mediaservice/en/2024/06/17/prix-winners-2024/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Our Data Bodies / Digital Defense Playbook", "artist": "Our Data Bodies Project (Detroit Community Technology Project, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Center for Community Transitions)", "year": "2015–2018", "venue_prize": "Allied Media Projects (publisher); odbproject.org", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Runs two years of workshops in Detroit, Charlotte and LA neighborhoods so residents can map how re-entry, housing and welfare data systems police them, then distills the findings into a free community 'Digital Defense Playbook' of counter-surveillance tools instead of an academic report.", "source_url": "https://www.odbproject.org/our-data-bodies-project/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "overturns", "artist": "Nolan Oswald Dennis", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Swiss Institute, New York (first US institutional solo exhibition)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Reworks Sylvia Wynter's call to overturn Western 'genres of the human' into a suite of diagrams, models and sculptural systems mapping planetary racial capital against co-existing Black and Indigenous cosmologies — treating decolonization as a systems/data problem, not a site-specific one.", "source_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/exhibitions/nolan-oswald-dennis-overturns", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Paradise Camp", "artist": "Yuki Kihara", "year": "2022", "venue_prize": "Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2022 (curated by Natalie King)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Restages Gauguin's Sāmoa-derived colonial-ethnographic paintings as tableau photographs with a Fa'afafine cast, building a counter-archive ('Vārchive') that exposes the source images while entangling colonisation, gender and climate catastrophe.", "source_url": "https://www.paradisecamp.ws/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Phyto-Travellers", "artist": "Eva-Maria Lopez", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe — ZKM_Kubus Subraum, part of \"Fellow Travellers\" (July 26, 2025–Feb 22, 2026)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A living garden of colonial-era \"neophyte\" plants is grown on freight pallets inside a 2:3-scale reconstruction of Columbus's ship the Niña, with the plants' original indigenous names inscribed on the glass façade — a literal, growing archive of botanical colonialism rather than a data visualization of it.", "source_url": "https://zkm.de/en/2025/07/eva-maria-lopez-phyto-travellers", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "PL'AI", "artist": "Špela Petrič", "year": "2022", "venue_prize": "HEK Basel — \"Other Intelligences\" (May 10–Aug 10, 2025)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "An AI-controlled robot 'plays' with live cucumber plants in a terrarium via Lidar scanning and colored-ball placement, forcing a literal, physical protocol of interspecies communication between machine intelligence and plant behavior rather than a metaphorical one.", "source_url": "https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/other-intelligences/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre", "artist": "Natasha Tontey", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Museum MACAN, Jakarta (solo exhibition)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Turns Sulawesi crested macaques — framed by colonial primatology as lesser life — into protagonists of a camp horror-theatre cosmology drawn from Minahasan belief, granting agency to more-than-human entities against anthropocentric state modernity.", "source_url": "https://www.artbasel.com/stories/natasha-tontey-museum-macan-jakarta-audemars-piguet", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Pȟehíŋ kiŋ líla akhíšoke (Her hair was heavy)", "artist": "Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta)", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "SAW Video / Knot Project Space; artist portfolio", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Performs wearing a braided-hair interface woven with sensors and machine learning that 'listens without ears,' translating touch and movement into light, sound and AI-generated text — staging the technology as a spirit-greeting device within Lakȟóta protocol rather than a neutral tool.", "source_url": "https://www.kitekitekitekite.com/portfolio/peh-ki-lla-akhoke-her-hair-was-heavy-2019", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Repatriate (and broader climate-performance practice)", "artist": "Latai Taumoepeau", "year": "2015", "venue_prize": "Performance, Australian contemporary performance circuit (Campbelltown Arts Centre and touring)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The Tongan-Australian artist's own body performs an endurance ritual — dancing a Tongan liturgical choreography inside a Perspex tank slowly filled by fire hydrants over 90 minutes — as a direct physical proxy for Pacific sea-level-rise data.", "source_url": "https://www.artspace.org.au/artists/latai-taumoepeau", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Repellent Fence", "artist": "Postcommodity", "year": "2015", "venue_prize": "US/Mexico border, Douglas AZ–Agua Prieta MX (four-day land art action)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Floats 26 ten-foot 'scare-eye' balloons, decorated with Indigenous medicine colors, in a two-mile line straddling the US/Mexico border — a temporary, four-day land-art 'suture' re-joining Indigenous land that a colonial border fence had divided.", "source_url": "https://news.asu.edu/20160601-artist-collective-postcommodity-presents-ambitious-installation-us-mexico-border-october", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "SummitShare — Open Digital Infrastructure for Shared Histories (Cultural Heritage)", "artist": "SummitShare / Shared Histories Team (Mulenga Kapwepwe, Thomas Gondwe, Nhyira Amofa-Sekyi, Mario Jere)", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Golden Nica)", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A blockchain-based open-access virtual museum performing 'metadata healing' on colonial-era Zambian artifacts, centering indigenous women custodians and routing financial support back to heritage communities.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Takapau", "artist": "Mataaho Collective (Erena Baker, Sarah Hudson, Bridget Reweti, Terri Te Tau)", "year": "2022 (shown 2024)", "venue_prize": "Venice Biennale, International Exhibition 'Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere' — Golden Lion for Best Participant, 2024", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Monumental woven/lashed hi-vis tie-down installation that scales a domestic, matrilineal Māori fibre-craft practice — mat-weaving used in childbirth ceremony — up to architectural size, forming the Arsenale's entry passage.", "source_url": "https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/2024-venice-biennale-golden-lion-winners-1234703947/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Kris Project (I–III)", "artist": "Au Sow Yee", "year": "2015–2018", "venue_prize": "Singapore Art Museum collection; finalist, APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Splices found footage from 1950s–60s Cathay-Keris Malayan cinema with wartime documentary material through an invented fictional filmmaker persona, collapsing fact and propaganda to expose whose version of Malayan history counts as 'archival record.'", "source_url": "https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/About/Our-Collection/The-Kris-Project", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Open Boat", "artist": "Lamin Fofana", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe — \"Fellow Travellers\" opening performance, Sept 20, 2024", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A sound/performance piece built from postcolonial theory and the non-linear, cyclical temporalities of oceanic space, staging Black Atlantic migration and diaspora as a counter-epistemology to Western linear data and archival logic.", "source_url": "https://zkm.de/en/2024/09/the-open-boat", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Planetary Compendium", "artist": "Anahat Kaur & Arianna Smaron", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Honorary Mention)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A living, continuously evolving digital atlas of essays and case studies mapping planetary-governance frameworks, built as a scalable educational tool rather than a fixed artwork.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The REDress Project", "artist": "Jaime Black", "year": "2010–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Traveling public installation; permanent display, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg; shown at National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC", "clusters": [ 5, 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Empty red dresses (400+, many donated by families) hung in public sites across North America to make the uncounted statistical gap of missing and murdered Indigenous women viscerally, spatially present as absence.", "source_url": "https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=973", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Three Experiments in Plant Intercognition", "artist": "Špela Petrič", "year": "2023-2024 (exhibited Dec 2023-Jan 2024)", "venue_prize": "National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Stages literal cognitive-communication experiments between artist and germinating plants (extending her 'Skotopoiesis' bio-semiotic method), treating a plant's measurable response to light and stimuli as a form of intelligence to test the human-drawn boundaries of cognition.", "source_url": "https://www.ki.si/en/about-the-institute/gallery/translate-to-english-spela-petric-trije-eksperimenti-v-interkogniciji-z-rastlinami-december-2023/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Transfiguraciones", "artist": "Isabella Salas & Hexorcismos", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "(de)Stabilizing Diffusions — MUTEK Montréal x Machine Agencies (Concordia) x SAT", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A GAN trained on digitized datasets of Prehispanic Mesoamerican masks is played live like an instrument, its outputs morphing in real time under the performers' control — the neural network treated as a possessed object to be exorcised/decolonized rather than a neutral generative tool.", "source_url": "https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/destabilizing-diffusions/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Uncharted", "artist": "Kidus Hailesilassie", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "Tribeca Immersive 2025 (\"In Search of Us\")", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "6,500 characters collected from African and diasporic writing systems are rendered as an AI-driven data sculpture that a dancer must physically interpret in real time — an endangered-language archive made legible only through embodied performance, not a screen or a search bar.", "source_url": "https://www.onx.studio/onx-programming/tribeca-immersive-2025", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Yanmeeyarr", "artist": "Vicki Couzens", "year": "2021", "venue_prize": "ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne — permanent commission through 2031", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Ochre body-marking patterns used in Gunditjmara ceremony, translated into a light-and-shadow installation across the museum's ceiling, framing the threshold visitors cross into and out of a history of the moving image.", "source_url": "https://www.acmi.net.au/works/118030--yanmeeyarr/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "AI, Ain't I a Woman?", "artist": "Joy Buolamwini", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "Algorithmic Justice League / MIT", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A spoken-word video poem restages Sojourner Truth's 1851 question through five commercial facial-analysis APIs (Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Face++, Google) misgendering Oprah, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Shirley Chisholm on screen — turns benchmark error rates into a recited indictment.", "source_url": "https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/joy-buolamwini-ai-aint-i-woman-2018", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Algorithmic Justice League", "artist": "Founded by Joy Buolamwini", "year": "2016–ongoing", "venue_prize": "ajl.org (nonprofit, est. 2016)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Institutionalizes 'the coded gaze' as a named, citable object of critique — fuses art, research and policy testimony into a standing instrument that keeps auditing deployed AI systems rather than resting on a single artwork.", "source_url": "https://www.ajl.org/about", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Coded Bias", "artist": "Shalini Kantayya (director), featuring Joy Buolamwini, Cathy O'Neil, Zeynep Tufekci, Safiya Noble, Deborah Raji", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Sundance Film Festival 2020; Netflix / PBS Independent Lens", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Documents the Gender Shades audit escalating into congressional testimony and municipal facial-recognition bans, narrativizing an algorithmic accuracy study as a feminist accountability thriller.", "source_url": "https://www.ajl.org/spotlight-documentary-coded-bias", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Data Feminism", "artist": "Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "MIT Press (open access edition)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "publication", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Reframes data science through intersectional feminist theory, arguing that counting and classification themselves encode power — turns 'whose voice is missing from the data' into a repeatable analytic method rather than a moral aside.", "source_url": "https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547185/data-feminism/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Dear Data", "artist": "Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec", "year": "2014–2015 (published as book 2016)", "venue_prize": "MoMA permanent collection (postcards + sketchbooks)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "print-diagram", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Two designers mail each other one hand-drawn postcard a week for a year, each encoding a mundane personal metric (complaints, doors touched, laughter) — asserts 'data humanism': the antidote to extractive big data is slow, subjective, handmade small data shared as intimacy.", "source_url": "http://www.dear-data.com/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Decoding Bias", "artist": "Theresa Reiwer", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Lumen Prize 2024, Gold Award (overall winner)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Eight hyper-realistic AI avatars are staged in a self-run group-therapy circle to 'purge' their own biased training data and toxic code — algorithmic bias literalized as a confession the machines are made to perform in front of a live audience.", "source_url": "https://lumenprize.org/2024-lumen-prize-winners/theresa-reiwer", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Feminist Data Set", "artist": "Caroline Sinders", "year": "2017–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Ars Electronica, LABoral, Victoria and Albert Museum, MAMbo Bologna, SOHO20 Gallery", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Interrogates every stage of a machine-learning pipeline — collection, labeling, training, algorithm choice, chatbot design — through participatory feminist workshops, treating deliberately slow, intentional data-gathering itself as an act of protest against extractive data culture.", "source_url": "https://carolinesinders.com/feminist-data-set/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Gender Shades", "artist": "Joy Buolamwini & Timnit Gebru", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "MIT Media Lab; published at Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "evidence-platform", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Builds an intersectional benchmark (Pilot Parliaments Benchmark, 1,270 faces) to show commercial gender-classifiers erring up to 34.7% on darker-skinned women versus 0.8% on lighter-skinned men — an academic audit engineered as public evidence, which pushed IBM to end facial-recognition sales.", "source_url": "https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/gender-shades/overview/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Harvesting Climate Action", "artist": "Ling Tan", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "Prix Ars Electronica 2026 — Digital Humanity (Honorary Mention)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Combines digital sensing tools with community culinary-identity workshops in a three-tiered (individual/group/district) structure to build climate-data awareness from the ground up.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/jurystatements/statements2026/", "verify_status": "verified", "curator_note": "Schwacher KI-Bezug — partizipative Sensorik + Community-Workshops; als Daten-Partizipations-Werk geführt." }, { "title": "Here the River Lies", "artist": "Debbie Ding", "year": "2010–2015", "venue_prize": "Singapore Art Museum", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Crowdsources 1,500+ oral micro-histories of a vanished river onto a hand-drawn map and deliberately refuses to distinguish verified memory from invented story, indexing both into the same archive as a challenge to the evidentiary claims of official heritage data.", "source_url": "https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/art-events/exhibitions/wikicliki/debbie-ding-here-the-river-lies", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Minotauros (Minotaurs)", "artist": "Iván Abreu", "year": "2017", "venue_prize": "Big Bang Data (curated by Olga Subirós & José Luis de Vicente), Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An 8-bit-aesthetic LED labyrinth animates Mexico City's informal-economy occupation rate — rendering, in low-resolution video-game imagery, the workers who accumulate no data trail toward a pension: missing data made visibly to move.", "source_url": "https://economicon.mx/blog/vimos-big-bang-data-en-el-centro-de-cultura-digital/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Missing Datasets (list/essay)", "artist": "Mimi Onuoha", "year": "2015–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Self-published open repository, companion to the Library of Missing Datasets installation series", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "database", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "An open, continually-added public list plus essay cataloguing real-world datasets that go uncollected, giving the physical Library's concept a living, crowd-legible digital counterpart.", "source_url": "https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Shifting Sands: A Battle Song", "artist": "Manal AlDowayan", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Saudi Arabia Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Gathers texts, drawings, and voice recordings from over 1,000 Saudi women across nationwide workshops into a single immersive multimedia installation, converting collected first-person testimony into a national-pavilion-scale statistical portrait of women's status.", "source_url": "https://www.manaldowayan.com/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Sobrevivientes", "artist": "Datasketch (with Sandra Suárez / QueremosDatos.co, Data Against Feminicide network)", "year": "2017–ongoing", "venue_prize": "Datasketch, Bogotá, Colombia — 'Data Against Feminicide' international network", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Denied complete femicide records through freedom-of-information requests, the team built its own database from news reports and survivor testimony, then translated the gaps into embroidery, illustration, digital maps, and a public-space intervention — data activism that makes the state's non-counting visible.", "source_url": "https://datoscontrafeminicidio.net/en/art-and-data-to-make-feminicide-visible/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm", "artist": "Amanda Bennetts", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "ISEA2024 (29th International Symposium on Electronic Art), Brisbane — presented at Outer Space", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "The artist's own chronically-ill, 'non-normative' muscle data, captured via a wearable EMG device over six months of research with Ars Electronica x IT:U, is fed into ML models built for wellness/health platforms — exposing whose bodies the quantified-self industry was never built to include.", "source_url": "https://isea2024.isea-international.org/stealth-care-wellness-from-the-algorithm/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Library of Missing Datasets", "artist": "Mimi Ọnụọha", "year": "2016–ongoing (v1 2016, v2.0, v3.0 2021)", "venue_prize": "bitforms gallery (v2.0); developed during residencies at Data & Society and Eyebeam", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "A literal filing cabinet of empty, labeled folders — each naming a dataset that societies choose not to collect (e.g. undocumented migrants incarcerated in the US) — makes structural absence itself the exhibit.", "source_url": "https://www.bitforms.art/artwork/the-library-of-missing-datasets-v-2-0/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Library of Missing Datasets (v2.0)", "artist": "Mimi Ọnụọha", "year": "2016 (v2.0: 2020)", "venue_prize": "bitforms gallery, New York", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Fills steel filing cabinets with empty folders labeled by the names of datasets that structurally do not exist ('People excluded from housing due to criminal records', 'Uncounted deaths tied to Hurricane Maria') — making data's absence itself the exhibit, by a Nigerian-American artist working at the intersection of data collection and racial/social omission.", "source_url": "https://www.bitforms.art/artwork/the-library-of-missing-datasets-v-2-0/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "un- (anterior ellipse[s] as mangled container; or where edges meet to wedge and [un]moor)", "artist": "Charisse Pearlina Weston", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "Whitney Biennial 2024 'Even Better Than the Real Thing', Whitney Museum of American Art", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Six panes of dark glass suspended at a threatening angle over visitors' heads, restaging the 1964 CORE 'stall-in' protest as a physical mechanics of surveillance and Black refusal — power made into a literal ceiling.", "source_url": "https://news.artnet.com/art-world/charisse-pearlina-weston-shattered-glass-2714106", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Vigil", "artist": "Rebecca Belmore", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver, 2002 (Gore and Cordova Streets, Downtown Eastside)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A durational street performance — scrubbing the pavement, yelling the first names of real missing women written on her arms, then nailing a red dress to a pole until it tears — marking the unresolved case count of over 65 missing Downtown Eastside women.", "source_url": "https://www.rebeccabelmore.com/vigil/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Feral: Epoch 1", "artist": "Fabien Giraud", "year": "2024/2025 (world premiere)", "venue_prize": "MCA Australia, Sydney — 'Data Dreams: Art and AI' (2025–26)", "clusters": [ 7 ], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "First chapter of a planned 1,000-year, 32-generation project in which successive artists 'feed' one AI so it can eventually make a film witnessing humanity's end — a deliberately glacial experiment in what a machine 'learns' across centuries rather than scraped-in-seconds data.", "source_url": "https://theferal.org/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "Thousand Lives (BOB lineage)", "artist": "Ian Cheng", "year": "2023-2024", "venue_prize": "Gladstone Gallery, Seoul; Pilar Corrias, London; Matadero Madrid", "clusters": [ 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Extends Cheng's neurosymbolic autonomous-agent architecture (originally built for BOB, 2018-19) into a live, indefinitely-running simulation of a pet turtle's daily belief-updating - an actually-executing inferential AI system exhibited as artwork rather than a fixed narrative or render.", "source_url": "https://ocula.com/art-galleries/gladstone-gallery/exhibitions/ian-cheng-thousand-lives/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "ASSEMBLY", "artist": "Angelica Mesiti", "year": "2019", "venue_prize": "Venice Biennale, Australia Pavilion, 2019", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Traces the Michela stenographic keyboard used for real Italian and Australian parliamentary record-keeping, following its data as it is translated across written word, code, music and choreography, filmed inside actual Senate chambers.", "source_url": "https://creative.gov.au/news/media-releases/angelica-mesiti-s-assembly-officially-opened-in-the-australian-pavilion-at-the-58th-international-art-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Climate temperature-anomaly sonification", "artist": "Harlan Brothers", "year": "2025 (ongoing project, latest coverage Nov 2025)", "venue_prize": "YouTube / Forbes coverage, using Berkeley Earth data", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "investigation", "form": "video-film", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": true, "decisive_move": "Converts global land-based temperature anomalies since 1880 (Berkeley Earth dataset) into one musical note per year against a 1950-1980 baseline, making 150 years of warming audible as an accelerating, increasingly dissonant climb rather than a chart.", "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2025/11/26/how-climate-change-sounds-using-data-sonification/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "data-verse (trilogy)", "artist": "Ryoji Ikeda", "year": "2019-2025 (US debut at High Museum, 2025)", "venue_prize": "High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Amos Rex Helsinki; Copenhagen Contemporary; Almine Rech", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Renders CERN/NASA-scale scientific and cosmological datasets as monumental sound-and-light spectacle - pure data-sublime awe with no explicit interpretive critique of AI or power. Included deliberately as the data-sublime contrast case named in the brief.", "source_url": "https://high.org/press-release/ryoji-ikeda-press-release/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "DATALAND", "artist": "Refik Anadol Studio (Refik Anadol & Efsun Erkılıç)", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "The Grand LA, Los Angeles ('world's first museum of AI art')", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A permanent 25,000 sq ft museum where a wristband ('Empathica') and scent-diffusing neckband feed anonymized visitor biometric/behavioral signals back into generative rainforest-data visuals — data spectacle fully institutionalized as a standing museum genre rather than a temporary blockbuster stunt.", "source_url": "https://dataland.art/about", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "teamLab Borderless", "artist": "teamLab", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "teamLab Borderless, Azabudai Hills, Tokyo", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Included deliberately as the spectacle-pole counterweight: real-time motion-tracking and projection-mapped generative visuals produce pure immersive wonder with no explicit interrogation of data, AI, or power — the mirror image of every investigation-pole work in this set.", "source_url": "https://www.teamlab.art/e/tokyo/", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "The Street is Watching You (Face the Vitrine)", "artist": "Ganzeer & Yasmin Elayat", "year": "2013", "venue_prize": "D-CAF — Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "public-space-intervention", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Projects giant tracking eyes onto a downtown Cairo storefront so passersby physically feel themselves being watched in real time — literalizing street harassment and the CCTV/state gaze as a shared bodily experience instead of an abstract policy debate.", "source_url": "https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/0/70075/Arts--Culture/0/The-street-is-watching-you-Digital-installation-en.aspx", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Unsupervised", "artist": "Refik Anadol", "year": "2022–2023", "venue_prize": "MoMA, New York (Gund Lobby; acquired into permanent collection)", "clusters": [], "axis_pole": "spectacle", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Runs a generative model over 138,151 digitized works from MoMA's own collection and streams the output as a continuously mutating real-time 'hallucination' on a 24×24-ft media wall — no argument, no disclosed critique of the compute/energy behind it; over 3 million visitors, pure data-sublime as the point.", "source_url": "https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5535", "verify_status": "verified" }, { "title": "NES Glitch Compilation", "artist": "Johnny Rogers", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2005 Description description edit I have been casually documenting the glitch transmissions my Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) produces since 2001", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2385", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Broken Gradients", "artist": "Manuel Fernández", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "professional post-production software to create the images, taking inspiration from glitch processes. attributed to: Rhizome inception: 2021 description edit Chromogenic", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1197", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Glich-Gen", "artist": "DreamAddictive", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Carmen González) inception: 2007 outside link Description description edit Glitch is the digital deconstruction of an image that suffers a rupture in its", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2575", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ExtraFile", "artist": "Kim Asendorf", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "standard image file formats. In addition, users can save images in seven new, glitch formats designed specifically for artists, which allows them to extend their", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2140", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "text2image", "artist": "ted davis", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "greatly through alternate keying. Within the realms of data visualization + glitch/digital aesthetics, text2image.org explores alternative ways in creating", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3812", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "flo\\/\\/", "artist": "Małgosia Woźnica", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "edit This video by Małgosia Woźnica aka v5mt presents a galcieal style of glitch. Rich in colorful flowing video distortions, the visuals unfold slowly in", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3106", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "import/export", "artist": "hannah kops", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "operation system. With this project we are interested in transfering concepts of glitch and microsound into the milieu of software iconography. Deterritorialize", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3594", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Homestead Grays", "artist": "Takeshi Murata", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "artists other video work from this period relied heavily upon digital video glitch, and the .avi format. attributed to: Takeshi Murata inception: 9 March 2012", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3302", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Melter 2", "artist": "Takeshi Murata", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "artist's later "data mosh" works, which are based heavily upon digital video glitch, and the .avi format. attributed to: Takeshi Murata inception: 9 March 2012", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2838", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Get Your Ass To Mars", "artist": "Takeshi Murata", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "wholly new body of work. In far contrast to his early animation work, or his glitch filled datamosh videos, these nine still lives are both cyber-futurist,", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3660", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "8 BIT WEB", "artist": "Gonzalo Fernández", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "like Atari and Commodore, among others. Also, it suggests the theme of Glitch or computing error, the error as a form of sense, that is displayed in the", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4250", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "(t)error", "artist": "Robert Praxmarer", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "PreviousNext outside linkstatic files Description description edit (t)error (t)error is an interactive videoinstallation. it attributed to: Robert Praxmarer", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2270", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Cyberspace Mega Brains Group", "artist": "Jordons Francisco", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Lua error in Module:entityUtilities at line 189: attempt to index local 't' (a nil value).", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1353", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "white noise", "artist": "Jürgen Trautwein", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "2006 outside link Description description edit White noise is a noise- color-composer or a noise- color association interactive game simulator. An experimental", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4122", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "all is full of noise", "artist": "Georg Duemlein", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description description edit this is about the pure noise of digital communication. based on a realtime noise broadcast users can use this as a message relay", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1265", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Bar Code Noise", "artist": "Scott Blake", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "title: Bar Code Noise inception: 2001 Variant History outside link variant edit access URL: http://www.punklist.com/~blake/art/noise/noise_01.html inception:", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1990", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "atari-noise", "artist": "arcangel constantini", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "infinite quantity of RANDOM audiovisual noise patterns that can be played in real time. The user of atari-noise, by pressing the keyboard push buttons,", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4160", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "memsweeper", "artist": "Nik Hanselmann", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "mines induces failure within the software itself. The space of play is shifted from representational failure to real computational failure. attributed to:", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4256", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "NY Times", "artist": "Will Neibergall", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "composition crudely representing a future newspaper headline lamenting the failure of the show it was featured at due to the absence of work by the artist", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4063", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "I, Popeye", "artist": "Takeshi Murata", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "edit Takeshi Murata twists a cartoon of heroic triumph into a litany of failure. The halting, minor-key version of the Popeye theme song and the leering", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3130", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "thecry.org", "artist": "Indira Montoya", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "in a few days. Love, hatred, illusions, all could be resumed in a word: failure. thecry.org is about visual consequences; the only consequences one could", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4204", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Inflat-o-scape", "artist": "Jessica Irish", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "specificity, creating a new landscape' that is part fiction, part history, part failure and part theoretical database. attributed to: Jessica Irish inception: 1", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3111", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Manual Focus 1: War", "artist": "Julian Scaff", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "2003 during a lot of discussion by alternative media outlets about the failure of the mainstream American media to engage in real journalism. The concept", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2199", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Environment", "artist": "Roch Forowicz", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "the information exchange”. Environment grew out of Forowicz's perceived "failure" of the earlier project Invigilate--a form of art activity performed in", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3534", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)", "artist": "MTAA", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "just close the browser and walk away. No one needs to suffer on this one; failure is built-in at the front end. "1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)"", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3063", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "She is always walking away....... 1948 - 2006....", "artist": "Ross Barber", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "expressing the full range of the 'feminine' in ones consciousness. For me that failure has closed the doors to my beginning to understand fully what it means to", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1718", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Buddy Rivers Live (the automatic comedian)", "artist": "Dave Miller", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "reflect his personal demons, constructed from Yahoo searches on: 'fear of failure', 'Little Britain', 'Lenny Henry', 'panic attacks', 'divorce', etc. For", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3969", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Scanart: A Digital Artifact Recontextualization", "artist": "SuAnne Hall", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "description edit Scanart: A Digital Artifact Recontexualization creates a critical approach to how digital artifacts are treated and used, in that receiving", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1780", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Marketscape", "artist": "Christian Marc Schmidt", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "the S&P500 index, representing daily market activity as a virtual data artifact. It depicts index constituents as individual volumes, reflecting price", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1923", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Vlog Artifacts", "artist": "David Kraftsow", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "David Kraftsow inception: 2012 static files Description summary edit Vlog Artifacts is an image generator that connects to YouTube and loads random segments", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4368", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Desktop Views", "artist": "Adam Cruces", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "of screenshots serves as evidence of graphical user interfaces, and the artifacts of the artists who used them. attributed to: Rhizome inception: 2021 summary", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3776", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "museomultimedial [mmm]", "artist": "arturo cariceo", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "answering machines and computers: they are artifacts that do not intend to convince or convert, artifacts that are irreducible to the value of use and", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3639", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Digital Nature: The Case Collection", "artist": "Tal Halpern", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Nature can be thought of as a writing machine and real-time anthropological artifact generator, which exploits the popular forms of information culture attributed", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3598", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Veteranas and Rucas", "artist": "Guadalupe Rosales", "year": "2015", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "in the late-twentieth and early-twenty first centuries. By preserving artifacts and memorabilia, Rosales tells the stories of communities often underrepresented", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4882", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Untitled (Standards)", "artist": "Michael Guidetti", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description description edit In Untitled (Standards) Guidetti presents cultural artifacts of 3D modeling and computer graphics. We see the Utah Teapot and other", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2169", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "00FFFF - Pixelation Routine", "artist": "Morgan Jones", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Kevorkian's face, iraq war voiceovers from CNN and Google Earth hacked with a malfunctioning video card. Uses vivid repetitive graphics and sound, in an updated", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3089", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "World of Female Avatars", "artist": "Evelin Stermitz", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "this artistic work are: Body and technology - Body and sex - Absent body - Body and picture - Body and violence. The debate of body in media art and in this", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1880", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Body by Body", "artist": "Jst Chillin", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Denny, Parker Ito) inception: 2010 PreviousNext Description summary edit Body by Body was a "Net influenced" fashion project that brought internet and post-internet", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2383", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "my body — a Wunderkammer", "artist": "Shelley Jackson", "year": "1997", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description summary edit my body — a Wunderkammer is a semi-autobiographical hypertext combining text and image in an exploration of the body. It features a line", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4877", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ftp_formless_anatomy", "artist": "Eugene Thacker", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "of the digital-anatomical body. A theme running through most of my theoretical and net.art work is the relation between the body and technology. Specifically", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2470", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "SeaPoint", "artist": "Cliona Harmey", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "allocated this file a number and description from the Beaufort Scale. The Beaufort Scale (for use at sea) measures wind speed by observing the visual effects", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1250", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "plastiQ Memory", "artist": "Philippe Boisnard", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "description edit PlastiQ Memory, is an exploration of brain with the Xenakis music ("Diamorphoses"). This discover shows that memory is sensitive, and not", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3087", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Pieces of Herself", "artist": "Juliet Davis", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "pieces of the self and arrange them in compositions inside the body. As each piece enters the body, it triggers audio clips from interviews with women. attributed", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1696", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Animated Text", "artist": "animated text", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "history. attributed to: animated text inception: 2022 Metadata Descriptive Data artist: animated text title: Animated Text inception: 7 November 2012 Variant", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q15350", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Atmospherics/Weather Works", "artist": "Andrea Polli", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "a performance, installation, and distributed software project for the sonification of storms (cyclones, for example) and other meteorological events generated", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4124", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Scale", "artist": "Erika Lincoln", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description description edit Scale 2002 Found wood, electronics, fishing line, audio amplifiers, piezo mics, wire. Scale presents a struggling vertebraic", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1803", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Antediluvian Fragments of Memories", "artist": "sonya nielsen", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "reflecting the three different forms of memory: sensory, temporal and lasting memory. The first is the is nine elements of memory, each take on the form of an image", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2097", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "k'muni", "artist": "chia-hsiao sinz shih", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "in my body; my body lives in this world. My mind exceeds my body; my body exceeds its skin. I structure the world via my body's experiences. My body is structured", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2395", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "@reply-all", "artist": "Mark Beasley", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "the author's text against all existing - previously written - text that matches the current text. The user has the option to insert this text by pressing", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2408", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Pacific Pulse, electroacoustic composition for 8-channels", "artist": "Bob Sturm", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "culmination of my research in ocean buoy spectral sonification (http://www.composerscientist.com). Sonification, or auditory display, is a parametrical representation", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1700", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Mouse Pointer", "artist": "Scott Blake", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "variant edit access URL: http://www.barcodeart.com/artwork/netart/mouse/full_scale.swf inception: 2004 associated with: Scott Blake", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4243", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Marathon 55 . Cache Memory", "artist": "Grégory Chatonsky", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "remote server because it is in the cache memory. This memory is on the user's hard drive: technological mode of memory appropriation. Progressively the movie", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1192", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Artistic License", "artist": "Andy Deck", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Artistic License in a matter of minutes using your web browser. Instead of biometrics and radio frequency ID chips, Artistic License embraces freedom, collaboration", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3345", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Cody on Cage on Joyce", "artist": "Cody Trepte", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "description edit This is a writing through a writing of a text that is largely considered unreadable. This text is a random regeneration of John Cage’s Fourth Writing", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2849", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "PacketWeather", "artist": "Michael Zbyszyński", "year": "2011", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "September 2011 description edit PacketWeather is a visualization and sonification of the data traffic that continuously surrounds us. Every second, computers", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4014", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Attic", "artist": "James Mercer", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "PreviousNext outside link Description description edit The attic is a large scale maze / choose your own adventure in which you follow links through images", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2896", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Eidetic Memory", "artist": "Rick Mullarky", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": ""photographic," memory is the ability to recall images at will. But what happens when the emotions associated with them are unwanted? Eidetic Memory is a visual", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3724", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Line", "artist": "Melinda Rackham", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "shifting nodes in a fluid network, how do we define who and where we are? How is self-identity and the recognition of others re-coded in virtual space? How do", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1893", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "regenerative", "artist": "Eugenio Tisselli", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "regenerative web page, text degenerates with each visit, but it also attempts to regenerate itself by trying to extract some text from the refering page", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2669", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Sensity. Artworks using data from the real time environment. By Stanza", "artist": "Stanza", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "based on sensing the environment. The results are the visualisation and sonification of real time spaces. Sensity artworks are made from the data that is", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1905", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Slipstream_", "artist": "Keith Whittle", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Keith Whittle inception: 2001 Description description edit A series of small-scale digital art works designed to appear as interventions on participating sites", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1730", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Music Box", "artist": "Jin-Yo Mok", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "dizziness might be from the faint memory of my uneasy childhood, the memory of my gauche first love, or from the memory of every humiliation I have had.", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2704", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "enter", "artist": "nathaniel stern", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "enter:hektor asks viewers to “leave behind” their everyday performances of self, and attempts to accent each step and movement as a rich, performative gesture", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1689", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "IP Poetry Project", "artist": "Gustavo Romano", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "edit The IP Poetry project involves the development of a software and hardware system that uses text from the Internet to generate poetry that is then", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2310", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "domestic idols", "artist": "ruth catlow", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "rude graffiti or frivolous fluffy toys- expect to witness an intuitive and tactile sense of playfulness. 'Sex is the subject matter here, wrapped with an intimacy", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2486", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ZUR FARBENLEHRE (THEORY OF COLOURS)", "artist": "Steven Jones", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "another, which with the original colour comprehends the whole chromatic scale" -- Goethe from 'Theory of Colours' Soundtrack is 'Vladivostok' by Sonmi451", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2423", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Embed", "artist": "Adrian Van Allen", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "link Description description edit "Embed" is a projected loop of potential memory implants filtered through layered scrims. The visual vocabulary of antique", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3529", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Playas: Homeland Mirage", "artist": "Jack Stenner", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Meanwhile, as other human participants enter the installation zone, a video tracking system monitors them and spawns a new virtual character for each. Innocents", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3027", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "cyberpoetry 1995-1997", "artist": "komninos zervos", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "and movie. cyberpoetry: poetry that can not be published in the traditional print media, poetry that moves in time and space, poetry that requires new ways", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2175", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Bruxis", "artist": "Damon Hamm", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "include participatory elements that range from audio to the physically tactile to infrared motion sensors. His new work incorporates custom electronics", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2127", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "One Minute of Ass", "artist": "fernando sanchez", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "print representing one second in 25 frames. When video is rendered still the scale becomes much more visible. attributed to: fernando sanchez inception: 4 August", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2359", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "birth and decay", "artist": "julian konczak", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "birth and decay inception: 2006 Variant History outside link variant edit access URL: http://www.hidrazone.com/artists/julian_konczak/birth_and_decay/display_birth_and_decay", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3398", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space)", "artist": "Ralf Baecker", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inside-out its function is completly transparent, on the other hand a strict self-referentiality and ignorance to the viewer is realized. The machine turns", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1670", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Profane Earth", "artist": "Ollivier Dyens", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "worlds. Why poetry as virtual worlds? Throughout the years, I came to see 3d creation and poetry are not that far apart. For what is poetry if not an architecture", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3358", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Aperture", "artist": "eric socolofsky", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "experience; in particular, sensory data such as visual changes, aural motion, and tactile input have profound impacts on the way we perceive space. aperture focuses", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2466", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Re:Positioning Fear, Relational Architecture 3", "artist": "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description summary edit Re:Positioning Fear was an online project and large-scale installation on the courtyard facade of the world's largest historic armory", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4069", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Digital Decay III", "artist": "Claire Evans", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Claire Evans inception: 2007 outside link Description summary edit Digital Decay III is a video of the process of saving an image file in continuously lower", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4140", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "BirdMan", "artist": "Jeong Han Kim", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "reasons. This work is inspired by the Buddhist epistemological idea that the ‘Self’ is not different from the ‘Other’, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s ideas on", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2453", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Sweet Old Etcetera", "artist": "Alison Clifford", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "interactive web project that sets the poetry of E.E.Cummings against an imaginary landscape. Through gradual interaction, poetry grows from the landscape and individual", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3645", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Legible Nature", "artist": "adam chapman", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "repurposed and handmade objects, giving them voices and personalities. Through tactile and audio interactions with the objects, users develop immediate emotional", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4024", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Celestial Mechanics", "artist": "Scott Hessels", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "data…that awe that scale inspires. Planetariums give us a way to visualize a complex system without losing the emotion of the data. Scale creates wonder,", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1487", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Universal Acid", "artist": "Marisa Olson", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "video medium regresses into a more “primal,” analog state before eventually decaying into static. attributed to: Rhizome inception: no data description edit", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3061", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "VR ; Arcade project", "artist": "sinae kim", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "between true and false needs . This commodification of life becomes very Self-Repressive controlled by our need to satisfy false needs . Society under", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4182", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "jellyText", "artist": "Paul St George", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "edit jellyText is extensible poetry. The shape of a jellyText poem changes in response to movements by the reader. All poetry is interactive, but jellyText", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3669", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Induction House", "artist": "Ádám Somlai-Fischer", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "transforming the primarily visual digital environment into a physical and tactile experience, finding an architectural and tectonic embodiment. Here we are", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3963", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "glyf: construct", "artist": "Duncan Holby", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "construct is to explore visual dynamics that are made accessible through code: scale, sequence, repetition, displacement, math based color sets, linear and angular", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3820", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Saving The Alphabet", "artist": "Alan Bigelow", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "those who navigate the site themselves become a contributing factor in the decay of the story, and their contribution to the fictional death of language suggests", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3007", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "cracked cities", "artist": "julian konczak", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "is everywhere, from the decaying structures of Istanbul to the continually self-renewing organism of Tokyo, the signs can be read between the cracks in the", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2389", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Movement is Life", "artist": "Peter Wildman", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Archive capture: March 2025 access URL: https://www.peterwildman.com.au/code-poetry.html inception: 2018 associated with: Peter Wildman web archive variant", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q12151", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Lair of the Marrow Monkey", "artist": "Erik Loyer", "year": "1998", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "and dynamic nature of the interactions help to make these relationships tactile and interesting for users, allowing them to experience Orion17's obsessions", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2625", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "SL Dumpster", "artist": "eteam", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "what was going on, the problems (prim limit) we ran tinto, the solutions (decay script) we came up with, the avatars we met, (Dunn Bing, Relder Waco, Whooter", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3203", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "IntroSpection", "artist": "Stephen Wilson", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "intimately connected with our bodies) focuses on the boundaries between self and non-self. The request of visitors to surrender cells or body fluids brings home", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1515", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "On your wrist is the universe", "artist": "Adriana Knouf", "year": "2016", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "satellites, rocket bodies, planets, and stars as the basis for generative poetry. Offering a tangible translation between our bodies and otherworldly bodies", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q12174", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Diagram of the Dynamics of the Physical Embodiment of Desire", "artist": "adam chapman", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "repurposed and handmade objects, giving them voices and personalities. Through tactile and audio interactions with the objects, users develop immediate emotional", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3836", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "the path of a butterfly sometimes deviates", "artist": "davey whitcraft", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "and after modifying the interior architectior by building an almost imperceptible addition to a corner where two hallways meet. The piece was shown using", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3569", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "1953", "artist": "Skye Thorstenson", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "easier for women, safer for children, and exciting for men. But there was a decay festering in the dark rhuemy areas incubating beneath the neon turquoise", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2283", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Studio Visit", "artist": "Cheryl Donegan", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "her preoccupations, but as in all her practice, the work soon declares its self-reflexivity as the languages, genres, and codes of the art form are turned", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4230", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "E.L.I. Nomad", "artist": "Christian Croft", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "sharing randomly generated poetry in exchange for new vocabulary words for his database. After hundreds of interactions, E.L.I.’s poetry has transformed from", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3330", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Telegraph", "artist": "dylan davis", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "version gave the control back to the user and was more in keeping with the tactile qualities of a double bass. The strings have to be plucked with a mouse", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2108", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Almost Home", "artist": "Arturo Herrera", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Moreover, when a player finally spies these irregular, often almost imperceptible and incongruous shifts, he or she is likely to become even more unsettled", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1400", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Email God", "artist": "Stewart Smith", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "in the process of negotiating broadcast time with a satellite service that could beam these messages into deep space, however this aspect is not integral", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1922", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Field Museum of Art", "artist": "mark cooley", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "museum mash-up wherein a Fine Art Museum is constructed on the bones of a decayed Natural History Museum site - specifically Chicago's Field Museum was used", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2463", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Project for Urban Intimacy", "artist": "Krista Connerly", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2003 outside link Description description edit The Project for Urban Intimacy seeks to counter the efficiency and rationality that are invading our cities", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3145", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Alphabet Synthesis Machine", "artist": "Golan Levin", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "own glyphs, and then evolves them into imaginary writing systems using genetic algorithms. The writing systems developed with the software can be downloaded", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1811", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Cash Flow", "artist": "jason skonieczny", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "portraits of Allen Greenspan, I attempted to make the movements, sounds, and tactility cold and slippery. For the Euro Sex pieces, I tried to analyze the expanding", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1946", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Atom", "artist": "Christopher Bauder", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3146", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Conversation Pit", "artist": "Mas Guerrero", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "the Pyramid Scheme of Western Exceptionalism, the ones getting emptier, decaying every day. All this is a vulnerable, subconscious projection, haunting", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q16004", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "internet & autofiction", "artist": "stephanie boisset", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2002 outside link Description description edit identity / art / intimacy / r attributed to: stephanie boisset inception: 17 April 2002 Metadata", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2343", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Inhabited Text", "artist": "Susan Collins", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "although it may well become that. The intention was more to find a form of writing that might critically reflect the processes within the work that it seeks", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2179", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Book after the Book", "artist": "giselle beiguelman", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "reading contexts where significations are built. A gesture repertoire, a tactile game between hand and paper (or mouse), a constellation of objects and vision", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4376", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Ghost City", "artist": "Jody Zellen", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "about memory, and about traveling through time and space. The time is infinite. The space is finite. Yet the time and space of GHOST CITY metaphorically relate", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1227", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Memento Mori: an Interface With the Earth", "artist": "Ken Goldberg", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "portal to view a display resembling a heart monitor; its "trace" slowly decays as the seismic signal moves from left to right, fading gradually to the", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1351", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "they learned this intimacy, however, meditating on the house", "artist": "Igor Štromajer", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Metadata Descriptive Data artist: Igor Štromajer title: they learned this intimacy, however, meditating on the house inception: 2001 Variant History outside", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1684", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "My Voice (for personal computer and microphone)", "artist": "Grégory Chatonsky", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "synchronize and desynchronize. What is the relation between the speech and the writing? attributed to: Grégory Chatonsky inception: 29 May 2003 Legacy descriptive", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2605", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Smart Second Skin Dress", "artist": "Jenny Tillotson", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "disciplines of analytical chemistry, nanotechnology, perfumery, fashion & textile design to be the pioneers of Scentsory Design attributed to: Jenny Tillotson", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1371", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Cyborg shop", "artist": "Andreja Kulunčić", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2005 outside link Description description edit The cyborg is, deep at the heart of the subject, a universal question that has interested humankind", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2272", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "blackaeonium (a keeping-place)", "artist": "lisa cianci", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Blackaeonium project explores the concept of keeping and loss in the preservation of digital media objects. It explores how best to keep the content of", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1695", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Those that will die (Youtube and experienceproject sniffing)", "artist": "Grégory Chatonsky", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "edit Sniffing Youtube + flickr + experience project to create infinite intimacy movie. attributed to: Grégory Chatonsky inception: 21 November 2006 Metadata", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2229", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Orbital", "artist": "neil jenkins", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "original poem by Mac Dunlop. The poem "Orbital" was inspired by imagining writing a letter to or from a traveller in space. It includes references to the", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3550", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Jacquard Loom Panels 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7", "artist": "Luke Duncalfe", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Joseph Jacquard's panels that could weave rich coloured yarn into patterned textile first displaced hundreds from their jobs as artisans, and later placed themselves", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3187", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Colorful life", "artist": "Jung-Hua", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "In fine art, artists used their bodies to create their works in a specific time duration, such as paintings, sculpture or performance art. Digital artists", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1750", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "GIF PAK", "artist": "Paper Rad", "year": "2012", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "gallery shows. This collection was curated by Jacob Ciocci following the preservation of paperrad.org in Rhizome's ArtBase. attributed to: Rhizome inception:", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4312", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "don't touch me", "artist": "Annie Abrahams", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2003 outside link Description description edit A work about intimacy and attitudes in front of the computer screen. I want to tell you a story", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3586", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Breathe On Me", "artist": "Will Pappenheimer", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "attributed to: Will Pappenheimer inception: 26 May 2005 artist statement edit Writing in the 1960s, Fluxus artist Dick Higgins proposed the expansion of the artwork", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1603", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Lilly", "artist": "Daniel Croyle", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "was that of a plant or flower, due to the nature of my employment, being textile design. Many a flower or plant has been studied by myself in an objective", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1422", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Looking At God", "artist": "Pradip Malde", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "description edit It is generally acknowledged that a photograph is born of time, that it preserves a moment, that it is an accurate instance of an event", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3433", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Search Wall", "artist": "Mladen Zagorac", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "search engines. Contrary to the usual strong stance on archiving and preservation, The Search Wall ephemerizes users’ searches; after their subtle appearance", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2491", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Me and Billy Bob", "artist": "Jillian Mcdonald", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2003 outside linkstatic files Description description edit Misplaced Intimacy is a symptom of our heavily mediated culture. Via fantasy and extensive", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3633", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Ask Arnold!", "artist": "Davis & Davis", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "outside link Description summary edit Ask Arnold! is a simple javascript chatbot based on ELIZA, an artificial intelligence program developed at MIT in 1966", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3259", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "IPicons", "artist": "Aaron Siegel", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "draw lines of color vertically and horizontally, giving the icon its woven textile appearance. Since each 8x8 pixel image represents 4 bytes of information", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2040", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ColourMetrics", "artist": "Joao Santos", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "the movements of the camera. The ColorMetrics depend on the relation of the time and the shutter of the digital camera: their progression and length are events", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2394", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "My Washington Square", "artist": "Alexis Lloyd", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "and historical stories situated in New York's Washington Square Park. Through personal stories submitted by online visitors as well as historical information", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3205", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Beyond Resolution", "artist": "Rosa Menkman", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "self-published research institute", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "An institute for the exploration of resolutions as compromises inscribed into every image standard.", "source_url": "https://beyondresolution.info/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Correctional Institute Inmate Personals", "artist": "Jessica Gomula", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "and enjoyment of the triggers, signals, and paraphernalia that surround intimacy and the act of sex. In my work, I look for ways in which I might destabilize", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3002", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Sandy Speaks", "artist": "American Artist", "year": "2017", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "outside link Description description edit Sandy Speaks is an interactive chatbot built with AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language), created in response", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q15411", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Weightless Sculpture Project", "artist": "Martin Sjardijn", "year": "1995", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "1995 outside linkstatic files Description summary edit The Weightless Sculpture Project was started in 1985 with the concept A Line in Outer Space, Visible", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2981", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Audiovisual Environment Suite", "artist": "Golan Levin", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "which allow people to create abstract animation and synthetic sound in real time. Each environment is an experimental attempt to design an interface which", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1242", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "the WESTbank", "artist": "david sansone", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "occupied by Israel. The piece presents statistical, geographical, and historical information on Palestine. attributed to: david sansone inception: 4 April", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3617", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Da Bear", "artist": "Aurora Halal", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "edit This website is part of a recent installation about interface and intimacy. A huge stuffed bear sculpture has a joystick for the user to navigate", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2557", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Mikon Hall of Worlds", "artist": "Daniel Green", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "computer coupled with motors, fans, lights, kinetic sculpture, inflated sculpture, light sculpture, and electronic sound modules, and a growing and changing", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1204", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Presence of Absence", "artist": "Peter Horvath", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "what belongs to the spectrum of one's history: subjective or objective, microscopic or macroscopic, private, familial, and socio-political. Through my work", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3437", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Samuel Gray Society", "artist": "Darryl Lauster", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "fabricate--a ripe mixture of historical fact and tenuous hypothesis, which, in many ways, is an honest depiction of the process of historical interpretation. This", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3065", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "News from Home Screen", "artist": "Adina Glickstein", "year": "2020", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "move to New York, in a period of loneliness and primarily screen-mediated intimacy. Chantal Akerman's 1977 film News from Home, where the filmmaker reads", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q12118", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Eco-social sculpture", "artist": "Gosia Koscielak", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Artist Statement The idea of eco - social sculptures integrates my concepts of spatial symulations -sculpture to infinity and broader aspects of scientific", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2610", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Bio-tracking", "artist": "Anna Dumitriu", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "where the microbiological swabs were taken, the work draws together the microscopic and the macroscopic, drawing a thread between the satellites orbiting", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1832", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "exodus", "artist": "michael bielicky", "year": "1995", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "other projects like "The Spiral," a video installation which examines historical communication methods. It's an unusual and provocative use of the Web", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3184", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "scalpel", "artist": "nicolas clauss", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description description edit video portrait of a friend who once faced a serious illness. a mixture of biographical elements and pictures (including a drawing by", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3386", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ancestralworship.com", "artist": "Duncan Malashock", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "PreviousNext outside link Description description edit A brightly-colored sculpture moves slowly through a grey space. attributed to: Duncan Malashock inception:", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2510", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Web is a Living Organism", "artist": "Mushon Zer-Aviv", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Symbiotic Relationships. The interactive composition is an examination of microscopic activity inside an internet tissue. The participants/users are invited", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3681", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "1833 Chicago City Limits (Chicago, IL)", "artist": "Christian Marc Schmidt", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Using sequenced still photography, I trace paths around political and/or historical boundaries within cities, borders which, at one point in time, may have", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3215", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "minus esse", "artist": "nark bkb", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inspiration. This caused an unending cirlcle of frustration. Apathy or illness? I attempted under compulsion! I bound myself to making music... The performance", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2328", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "4eva Connected", "artist": "Jst Chillin", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "calendar, with each day passing a new sculpture will appear and the chat will take a different direction. Each sculpture will be an evolved version of the", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3388", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "95 Chimes", "artist": "DEBRA SWACK", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "metaphors take on a startling reality, for the theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1370", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "LOOP (Chicago, IL)", "artist": "Christian Marc Schmidt", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Using sequenced still photography, I trace paths around political and/or historical boundaries within cities, borders which, at one point in time, may have", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1481", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Browser abstract", "artist": "sinae kim", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "description edit "Leibniz conceived the universe as composed of "monads", microscopic substances each of which lives in its own self-enclosed inner space, with", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2476", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Atlantic Yards", "artist": "Christian Marc Schmidt", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Using sequenced still photography, I trace paths around political and/or historical boundaries within cities, borders which may have had, or will have, a", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3004", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Computer Glitches as 3D Objects", "artist": "Tracy Cornish", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 10 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Glitch objects is a series of artworks by Tracy Cornish which transform two-dimensional visual results of computer glitches into three-dimensional objects by mapping properties of a visual glitch into 3D space. The left image shows glitch object 22, the right image shows glitch object 218. Computer glitches are the completely random, unpredictable and unexpected failures of digital systems. They are the result of approximated values and computational compensations for inaccessible information. Unlike bugs or faulty programming which can be tracked back to errors in code, glitches are fleeting", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/computer-glitches-as-3d-objects/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "WNVIRUS.COM", "artist": "[dNASAb]", "year": "1999", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Bird and Mammal Surveillance. Animals will be monitored for infection and illness with a focus primarily on dead birds, our rooftop pigeon coup access will", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1815", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Pulse: Animated Heart Shows Sentiments", "artist": "Markus Kison", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "pulse is a live-visualization of recent emotional expressions, written on private weblog communities like blogger.com. Weblog entries are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to Robert Plutchik’s seminal book Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion published in 1980. Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions in his book: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He developed a diagram in which these eight emotions, together with their weakened and amplified counterparts, form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 areas. The cone is the basic form of p", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/pulse-showing-emotional-responses-on-the-web/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "MOBILE-MOBILE", "artist": "Jorge Hernández", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "WILL SEE AROUND AND UNDERSTAND THAT JUST WITH THE FIRST SOUND THE MOBILE SCULPTURE REACTS. WITH AN AMBIENT LIGHT A LITTLE BIT DIMMER, THE ACTIVE TELEPHONES", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2535", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe)", "artist": "Martin John Callanan", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "2009 PreviousNext outside linkstatic files Description description edit A Planetary Order is a terrestrial globe showing clouds from one single moment in time", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2693", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ALBUM", "artist": "Peter Horvath", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "imagery and sound. This memory piece, which may be considered a condensed historical tracing, reveals a fictional biography that reflects upon the history", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2834", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "We See In Every Direction", "artist": "Jonas Lund", "year": "2013", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "control of the browser, or choose to sit back and let their friends take care of the surfing. attributed to: Rhizome inception: 2021 Metadata Descriptive", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2352", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Which --- Side", "artist": "Jorn Ebner", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "outside link Description description edit "Which Side", 2007, is a song sculpture for "OffCentre" - the art in the public realm programme in Newcastle upon", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1914", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "A Prayer For Clean Water", "artist": "Paul McLean", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "to think collectively about preserving and protecting the very limited planetary resources of potable H20. Each typed prayer adds to an evolutionary graphic", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4198", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Camp La Jolla Military Park", "artist": "Owen Mundy", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Description summary edit Camp La Jolla Military Park investigates the historical, geographic, and economic ties between the University of California, San", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1668", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "SELLz", "artist": "David Gitt", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Some of these systems include education, economic, government, and health care. At the same time, blood cells, water, gas, sperm, cancer cells, food, and", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4194", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "AutoGene", "artist": "Peter William Holden", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "2006 description edit Giving a first impression of a simple commodity sculpture, “AutoGene” lures the viewer into a false sense of security, which is then", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2929", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Keep Walking", "artist": "Marcello Mazzella", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "body is no longer limited to a small, constricted space but has become a "planetary body" without limitations. Represented in the work is my vision of this", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1518", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "war game", "artist": "joeser alvarez", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "world, the lord`s of the war book Attribution: joeser alvarez tactical, historical, allegory, War, social space, netart, media activism, globalization, game", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3954", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "TVision", "artist": "Alexandro Ladaga", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "lives a digital existence but needs the active presence of public that take care of him feeding it and interacting with him as a surreal tamagotchi. TVision", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3912", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Threads://HTML", "artist": "Edward Tang", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "linkstatic files Description description edit Using my technique, "3D Video Sculpture", this work aims to reconnect human presence with the content and underlying", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2501", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Journey", "artist": "Eileen Botsford", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "carry our body, our vehicle, through life, plunging it into feeling and sensing life. Throughout this, I have found joy in misery and ultimate misery in", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3117", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Public Domain Reconstruction", "artist": "Tom Chambers", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "purpose of the single .gif file through background image utilization. This reconstruction produces a background of Kinetic [e] Art that takes Abstract Expressionism", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2295", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "watussi", "artist": "Eric Dymond", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "employing the same timbre and syncopation. The work was merged with great care and sonic observation. This piece blends old world soundscapes with communication", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3220", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "La langue se charge", "artist": "Michael Sellam", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "proposes an experiment of loss of time, of influence of time. This is an audio-haptic experiment about the relationships between text, space, time, sound and", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2386", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Survey of Common Sense", "artist": "Haleh Niazmand", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "inception: 2001 outside link Description description edit The "Survey of Common Sense" is an art project that uses the methodology of polls to address an array", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2260", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "DECONSTRUCTION - RECONSTRUCTION", "artist": "Paul Brand", "year": "2000", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "outside linkstatic files Description description edit "deconstructon - reconstruction" is a text/sound project by the artist Paul Brand, developed over a", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2079", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "untitled", "artist": "Tyler Cala Williams", "year": "2023", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "going to hurt the humans if we expand fully, we’re going to burn everyone we care about, we burn too bright, it’s not safe to exist, we’re dangerous, we’re", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q16147", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Computational Compost", "artist": "Marina Otero Verzier", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-1 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Computational Compost addresses the environmental impact of data storage and proposes a synergy between technology and ecology.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/computational-compost/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Slop Evader", "artist": "Tega Brain", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-4 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 4 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Slop Evader is a search tool and browser extension for avoiding AI-generated slop. The tool filters web searches so that results only include content published before November 30, 2022–the date of ChatGPT’s first public release.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/slop-evader/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Office for Tree Migration (OTM)", "artist": "Agnes Meyer-Brandis", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-5 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The Office for Tree Migration (OTM) is a long-term interdisciplinary art and research project by Agnes Meyer-Brandis that investigates tree and plant migration in different climate zones and along the treelines: How they go North, how they climb uphill in the Californian white mountains or how they enter the peatlands.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/office-for-tree-migration-otm/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Future Conditional: 00_To Create Love With Dry Eyes", "artist": "Romi Ron Morrison", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-6 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "00\\To Create Love With Dry Eyes is an arts based research project that investigates the racial histories of predictive modeling. These large data sharing infrastructures prefigure today’s smart cities, predictive policing, and surveillance systems.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-future-conditional/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Building for Quantum", "artist": "Marina Otero Verzier, Manuel Correa", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-7 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Building for Quantum is a video installation combining film, 3D animation, and a physical structure to explore how quantum technologies reshape our understanding of matter and space, while relying on architectural conventions to enable their operations. It documents the construction of the Quantum Basque Center in Donostia–San Sebastián, which hosts one of Europe’s most powerful…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/building-for-quantum/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Sonic Map of Battersea Park", "artist": "Gaya Gajewska", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "London park to experience its complexity, cosmopolitanism, vibrancy and sense of enjoyment, using sound clips and minimal graphics. It also challenges", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3467", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "| reconstruction |", "artist": "Michael Takeo Magruder", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Magruder inception: 2003 outside link Description description edit | reconstruction |, breaks down a captured web page (sampled at a finite moment in time)", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4403", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "counter street art", "artist": "maximiliano paccagnella", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "artistes put anti-war sprays on the wall? when i spray on a wall i don't take care of 11 semptember, so no, it is not inspired by Velvet strike :) I have tried", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2521", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Durrell Bishop's Marble Answering Machine", "artist": "Durrell Bishop", "year": "1992", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "In 1992, Durrell Bishop, then a student at the Royal College of Art, came up with an original answering machine design that is considered as one of the first tangible user interfaces (TUIs). The machine spits out a marble each time an incoming voice message is recorded. The order of the marbles indicates the order in which the messages arrived. Messages can be played back by putting a marble in a small dent. If the message is for somebody else it can be placed on a small dish to the side that can be labeled with names of different persons. The telephone itself also has a small receptor area fo", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/durrell-bishops-marble-answering-machine/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Origen, A Journey into the Heart of the Amazon Rainforest", "artist": "Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-5 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Origen is a narrative, interactive, and poetic journey through the Amazon Rainforest. In our voyage, first-person interactions weave the tapestry of encounters and teachings. During the journey, we are guided by a mythological boa through memories, teachings and stories of Shipibo origins.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/origen-a-journey/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Data Against Feminicide: AI tools, transnational community, and data activism", "artist": "Isadora Cruxên, Catherine D’Ignazio, Silvana Fumega, Helena Suárez Val", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-6 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Data Against Feminicide is a feminist participatory action research and technology design project. We collaborate with data activists, artists, nonprofits, communities, governments, and journalists who monitor feminicide (or femicide in some contexts).", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/data-against-feminicide/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Sensing Quantum", "artist": "LAS Art Foundation", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-7 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "LAS Art Foundationʼs Sensing Quantum is a long-term artistic research initiative that explores the intersections of quantum science, technology, philosophy, and contemporary art.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/sensing-quantum/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Switchboard Operation", "artist": "Qohtaiwoo", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "look at. Audio experience, different from the visuals, gives listeners a sense of embodiment. Exhibition space for art could be a white cube that isolates", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1486", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Hackney Girl", "artist": "ian flitman", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "locating the piece in terms of history of cinema, chaos theory, and the reconstruction of the viewer. attributed to: ian flitman inception: 8 June 2003 Metadata", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2714", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Last Midi Background", "artist": "Sebastian Schmieg", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "almost forgotten web that is loud, colorful, often "personal", and doesn't care about standards. Though it might be forgotten by many, some parts of it are", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2342", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Loren Madsen's Early Data Sculptures", "artist": "Loren Madsen", "year": "1995", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Californian artist Loren Madsen has been making data sculptures since 1995 and still continues today. CPI / Cost of Living (left image) is the first of his series: A lamination is one year. Vertical axis is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food; the horizontal axis is the CPI for gasoline + electricity. The rising center line is the CPI for housing. The 'snout' is the 1960's when housing and food were cheap. The bulge above the snout is 1973---OPEC, gasoline lines, etc. Thereafter the cost of most everything kept rising. On the right image, 6,000,000,000 monkeys, a 20-meter long data sculptu", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/cpi-cost-of-living/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Picoplanktonics", "artist": "Living Room Collective: Andrea Shin Ling, Vincent Hui, Nicholas Hoban, Clayton Lee", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-5 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Can we co-operate with living systems to construct spaces that work to remediate the planet rather than exploit it? Picoplanktonics proposes that we can, by leveraging both ancient biological processes and emergent technologies into a vision of how we might design our environments under an ecology-first ethos.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/picoplanktonics/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Coexist", "artist": "Emergence Delft", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-7 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/coexist/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "All the Submarines of the United States of America", "artist": "Chris Burden", "year": "1987", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "This installation from American artist Chris Burden shows the 625 submarines of the US fleet from the late 1890s to the late 1980s. The cardboard models have been suspended at different heights to look like a school of fish. Sources: Found on Loren Madsen's lecture slides Art as Information – Information as Art. Wikipedia article on Chris Burden. Photo from Giorgia Valli, Grey Magazine. Related: Also see our other entries on single-datum physical visualizations.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/all-the-submarines-of-the-united-states-of-america/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Dessert", "artist": "Erin O'Hara", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "re-configuration of mass produced sweets. I capture the deconstruction and reconstruction of the objects on video. The result is a life-like personality that", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q4040", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Dentimundo", "artist": "Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "the U.S. economy, catering to American citizens seeking affordable dental care and a variety of other services. This net art piece examines the reasons", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3280", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Bathsheba Grossman's Crystal Engravings", "artist": "Bathsheba Grossman", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Artist Bathsheba Grossman has been 3D printing mathematical surfaces as early as 1997. In 2002 she started to use subsurface laser engraving to produce 3D physical visualizations of data from astronomy, biology, and physics. Left image: a piece of DNA molecule. Right image: a 3D map of our nearby stars. The artist explains to us: This medium excels at imaging less structural data such as disconnected volumes, non-compact point clouds, and the convoluted strands of proteins. It works by projecting intersecting Nd:YAG laser beams into clear glass, concentrating enough energy at the intersection", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/scientific-visualization-in-crystal/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "FUNGI: Anarchist Designers", "artist": "Feifei Zhou, Anna Tsing", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-5 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "FUNGI: Anarchist Designers explores fungal design by following the lead of fungi, rather than humans. Rejecting the mainstream tendency to regard fungi as passive objects or materials for human use, the exhibition presents fungi as autonomous organisms that actively shape the environments in which they live.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/fungi-anarchist-designers/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Ned Kahn's Wind-Visualizing Facades", "artist": "Ned Kahn", "year": "1996", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Since 1996, Nothern California artist Ned Kahn creates large-scale installations that visualize wind patterns. The left image shows Wind veil (2000), a facade of a parking garage covered with 80,000 small aluminum panels that are hinged to move freely in the wind. The right video shows Wind arbor (2011), a facade of a hotel lobby in Singapore covered with a cable net structure composed of a half a million hinged elements. Sources: List of Ned Kahn's wind sculptures on his website. David Mather (2009). An aesthetic of turbulence: the works of Ned Kahn. Tech Insider (2016) These mind-blowing ins", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/ned-kahns-wind-visualizing-facades/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Social Metronome", "artist": "jacky Sawatzky", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "distinction of foreground and background, an optical image.) But is a reconstruction of this vision through the logical propositions of programming language", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2809", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Untangler", "artist": "Peace Olatunji", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-5 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Artificial intelligence systems are not neutral. Trained predominantly on Western datasets, they carry a fundamental asymmetry: African perspectives are absent, misrepresented, or subsumed beneath colonial inheritance.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/untangler/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Mount Fear: Elevation Map of Crime Rates", "artist": "Abigail Reynolds", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "East London", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A 3D map of East London where elevation represents the rate of violent crimes between 2002 & 2003. Corrugated cardboard, 145h x 540w x 425d cm. Source: Abigail Reynolds. Mount Fear East London.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/mount-fear-east-london/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Patinage", "artist": "Chris Joseph", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "cinematography and chronophotography: "We are not interested in the precise reconstruction of movement, which has already been broken up and analysed. We are involved", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q1406", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Illicit images", "artist": "Greg Sidal", "year": "2001", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "algorithms, resulting in images that appear to be composed of random static. Great care was taken to insure that the original images can not be recovered, especially", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q3772", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Worry (Prayer) Beads", "artist": "Loren Madsen", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "One bead = one year. Size of colored beads is proportional to number of terrorist-caused deaths. Black beads = no terrorist deaths. The largest bead is 2001. Also see Loren Madsen's earlier piece Tops (2001) featuring the same dataset, our entry 1995 – Loren Madsen’s Early Data Sculptures, and our interview with the artist. Sources: Loren Madsen", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/worry-prayer-beads/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Of All the People in All the World: Stats with Rice", "artist": "Stan's Cafe", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Since around 2004 the British group of artists Stan’s Cafe is creating data landscapes all over the world by mapping each grain of rice to a person in order to convey various statistics such as city populations or deaths in the holocaust. The size and theme of the show change depending on the location. The largest one involved 104 tons of rice. Rice is weighted manually in small quantities and manually poured over piles. This labor-intensive process is part of the show. Sources: Stan's Cafe (2006) Of All People In All The World. Mike Kirshner (2005) Factory Work. Photos from (left to right) Th", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/of-all-the-people-in-all-the-world-stats-with-rice/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Lungs, Slave Labour", "artist": "YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji, Graham Harwood)", "year": "2002", "venue_prize": "ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "database", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Lungs; Slave Labour by YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji, Graham Harwood) was a database installation that was first produced for the exhibition “Making Things Public” at The Centre for Art and Media, (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Bruno Latour, Peter Wiebel and Steve Dietz. The ZKM site first opened in 1997 in the historic monument of a former munitions factory, Deutschen Waffen und Munitionsfabriken A.G. Karlsruhe. The work reanimated the last breath of victims who were enslaved in the factory by calculating their vital lung capacity and again releasing the same volume of air into the exhibition", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/lungs-slave-labour/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Absolut Net.Art", "artist": "Eryk Salvaggio", "year": "1998", "venue_prize": "Rhizome ArtBase", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "digital-web", "medium_class": "digital", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "created by myself. My favorite comment in response to the work was: "I don't care who made it, its still JODI." It should also be noted that this artist would", "source_url": "https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Item:Q2864", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Cylinder: Early Sound Sculpture", "artist": "Andy Huntington, Drew Allan", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Cylinder by Andy Huntington and Drew Allan may be one of the first digitally-fabricated sound sculptures. Source: http://extraversion.co.uk/2003/cylinder/ Related: Also see our entry 2007 - Explosion of sound sculptures.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/sound-sculpture/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Garden of Eden", "artist": "Thorsten Kiesl, Harald Moser, Timm-Oliver Wilks", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Garden of Eden consists of eight lettuces, each of which is enclosed in its own air-tight plexiglas box and represents a major city. The concencration of ozone in each box is controlled in real-time to reflect the current pollution level in the city. Sources: Thorsten Kiesl, Harald Moser, and Timm-Oliver Wilks (2007) Garden of Eden (web page) Thorsten Kiesl, Harald Moser, and Timm-Oliver Wilks (2007) Garden of Eden (paper)", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/garden-of-eden/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Time Pieces: Physical Space-Time Cubes", "artist": "Marilynn Taylor", "year": "2003", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Artist Marilynn Taylor created seven three-dimensional maps (one for each day of the week) in which time is the z-axis and a copper wire shows how she moved across the city during the day. Source: Maryline Taylor (2003) Time pieces - Mapping the time and space of place (2003 version).", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/physical-space-time-cubes/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Slumber: Brainwave Weaving", "artist": "Janine Antoni", "year": "1993", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Slumber was a multi-year gallery installation/performance by artist Janine Antoni. From the website description: Performance with loom, yarn, bed, nightgown, EEG Machine and artist’s REM reading. Antoni transforms the fleeting act of dreaming into a sculptural process. Between 1994 and 2000, the artist slept in the bed while an electroencephalograph machine recorded her eye movement. During the day, Antoni would sit at the loom and weave shreds of her nightgown in the pattern of her REM. The patterns were woven into the blanket that covered the artist as she slept at night. In developing Slumb", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/slumber-brainwave-weaving/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Email Erosion: First Data Sculpture?", "artist": "Ethan Ham", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Although there are older data sculptures (see our entry 1995 – Loren Madsen’s Early Data Sculptures), this installation from artist Ethan Ham may have been the first artifact to be called a data sculpture. In 2005, Andrew Vande Moere, a Design Professor and author of the now discontinued data visualization blog infosthetics, described the installation as: an art installation that automatically creates physical data sculptures, using spam & e-mail as data to trigger the sculpting process. the installation contains robot—like mechanisms that function like a flat-bed plotter, squirting water to d", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/email-erosion-first-data-sculpture/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Windcuts: Wind Travels Captured on Wood", "artist": "Miska Knapek", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "Helsinki", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Windcuts is a physical information visualisation retelling the Helsinki wind's travels over five days, using wind sensor measurements from Helsinki, and wood and a CNC machine to cut it from there too. [...] The line's direction shows the wind's direction, the line's width shows the wind's speed - a more intense wind makes a bigger line - and the line's height shows the wind's temperature. Source: Miska Knapek (2012) Windcuts.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/windcuts-wind-travels-captured-on-wood/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Time-Evolving Scatterplot", "artist": "Tim Dwyer", "year": "2005", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Unemployment rate plotted against inflation for 8 countries over 10 years. Every layer represents a year and each country is a wire of a different color. This physical visualization was built by Tim Dwyer for his PhD dissertation. His goal was to experimentally compare a 3D and a 2D data representation, and he used a physical object to emulate a perfect 3D display. Source: Tim Dwyer (2005) Two and a Half Dimensional Visualisation of Relational Networks. PhD Dissertation.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/time-evolving-scatterplot/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Array of Belts Visualize Public Presence", "artist": "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", "year": "2004", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Standards and Double Standards is an interactive installation that consists of 10 to 100 fastened belts that are suspended at waist height from stepper motors on the ceiling of the exhibition room. Controlled by a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to follow the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by. When several people are in the room their presence affects the entire group of belts, creating chaotic patterns of interference. Non-linear behaviours emerge such as turbulence, eddies and relatively quiet regions. One of the aims of this piece is to vis", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/array-of-belts-visualize-public-presence/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Nathalie Miebach's Woven Sculptures", "artist": "Nathalie Miebach", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Artist Nathalie Miebach created a range of beautiful woven sculptures out of weather data. Source: Nathalie Miebach. http://www.nathaliemiebach.com/weather.html (see TED Talk).", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/nathalie-miebachs-woven-sculptures/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Marcovici's Single-Datum Visualizations", "artist": "Michael Marcovici", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Vienna artist Michael Marcovici created two physical visualizations that convey a single numerical value. The first one shows one billion dollar - the most expensive piece of art ever made, according to him (although these were actually miniature bills). The second one called Rolex Time Sand shows an entire lifetime worth of hourglass sand. For another single-datum physical visualization see our entry Ceramic Poppies to Commemorate Fallen Soldiers in WW1, and our entry on Chris Burden's submarines (1989). Sources: Michael Marcovici via visualizing.org. The artpieces are undated but an online s", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/single-datapoint-physical-visualizations/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Idea of a tree", "artist": "mischer'traxler", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The idea of a tree is an autonomous production process which combines natural input with a mechanical process. Solely driven by solar energy, it translates the intensity of the sun through a mechanical apparatus into one object a day. The outcome reflects the various sunshine conditions that occur during this day. Like a tree the object becomes a three dimensional recording of its process and time of creation. Source: mischer’traxler studio (2008) The idea of a tree – a semi-autonomous machine combining natural input with a mechanical process.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/idea-of-a-tree/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Pulse Room: Light Bulbs Show Heart Beats", "artist": "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of three metres. The bulbs are uniformly distributed over the exhibition room, filling it completely. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/pulse-room-visualize-detected-heart-beats/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Inverted Participatory Bar Charts", "artist": "Lucy Kimbell", "year": "2006", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Participatory physical visualization where people pick badges from tanks to vote. A lower bar means more votes. Source: Lucy Kimbell (2006). Physical Bar Charts.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/physical-bar-charts/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Virtual Gravity: Giving Physical Weight to Data", "artist": "Silke Hilsing", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Virtual gravity is an interface between digital and analog world. With the aid of analog carriers, virtual terms can be taken up and transported from a loading screen to an analog scale. The importance and popularity of these terms (data base: Google Insights for Search), outputted as a virtual weight, can be weighed physically and compared. Therefore impalpable, digital data get an actual physical existence and become a sensually tangible experience. Source: Silke Hilsing (2010) via fubiz", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/virtual-gravity-giving-physical-weight-to-virtual-data/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Diary of Happiness", "artist": "Jean-Michel Othoniel", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Miami", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Diary of happiness was a large-scale installation created by Jean-Michel Othoniel for his solo show in Miami in 2008. Jean-Michel Othoniel’s solo show in Miami features a large-scale installation entitled Diary of Happiness: a gigantic abacus measuring 2.20 m high by 4.50 m long, with each Murano glass bead representing a day of the year. Created for the occasion, this work is intended to slow down time by counting down the days like a rosary. It is also a questioning of lost paradises and an invitation to the search for happiness. The abacus frame is black on one side and white on the other.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/diary-of-happiness/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Wavefunction: Visualize Public Presence in Waves", "artist": "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", "year": "2007", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Wavefunction is a kinetic sculpture comprised of fifty to one hundred Charles and Ray Eames moulded chairs (designed in 1948) and placed in a regular array of rows, facing the entrance to the exhibition space. When someone approaches the work, a computerised surveillance system detects their presence and the closest chairs automatically begin to lift off the ground, creating the crest of a wave that then spreads over the whole room. A system of electromechanical pistons raises each chair forty centimetres from the ground. The pistons are controlled by a computer that runs the mathematics of fl", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/wavefunction-visualize-public-presence-in-waves/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Andreas Fischers' Data Sculptures", "artist": "Andreas Nicolas Fischer", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Andreas Nicolas Fischer is a Berlin-based artist. Above are four of his 3-D data sculptures: Fundament (world GDP and derivatives volume) Indizes (finance data over time) A week in the life (cellphone communications) Reflection (FFT of a music piece). Source: http://anfischer.com via infosthetics.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/andreas-fischers-data-sculptures/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream", "artist": "Superflux", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-8 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream asks what artificial intelligence could become if trained on centuries of ecological knowledge. Superflux placed four handcrafted sensor-objects along the Thames to observe birdsong, tides and atmospheric shifts.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/nobody-told-me-rivers-dream/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Psychogeographical Mapping: Travel Logging with LEGO bricks", "artist": "Cory Imig", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Savannah", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "American artist Cory Imig reconstructed the layout of the city of Savannah using LEGO bricks, and over the course of one month she added a colored brick every time she went to a particular place. Each color is a different day of the week. Source: Cory Imig (2008) Psychogeographical Mapping (see the section Documenting of her Web page for more data sculptures).", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/psychogeographical-mapping-travel-logging-with-lego-bricks/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "100% City", "artist": "Rimini Protokoll", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "Berlin", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Since 2008, the German theater group Rimini Protokoll organizes performances where they select 100 people in such a way that they form a representative sample of a given city, and then invites them on the stage. Each person briefly introduces themselves, after which everyone participates in a series of physical visualizations where each person takes the role of a data point. The first performance was titled 100% Berlin. Similar performances were then organized in 18 other cities between 2010 and 2019. Left image: response to the question: \"who was born in Berlin?\" (show 100% Berlin). Right ima", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/100-city/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Joshua Callaghan's Physical Charts", "artist": "Joshua Callaghan", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Joshua Callaghan has created various extruded 2-D charts. Source: http://www.joshuacallaghan.com/Graphs.htm", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/joshua-callaghans-physical-charts/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Seeing Echoes in the Mind of a Whale", "artist": "Marshmallow Laser Feast", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-8 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Seeing Echoes in the Mind of a Whale is a large-scale audiovisual installation immersing viewers in the sensory world of cetaceans, celebrating the rich biodiversity of our oceans.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/echoes-in-the-mind-of-a-whale/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Drumming for Love", "artist": "Erze Dinarama", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-8 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Staging communication between aquatic insects, Drumming for Love investigates the politics of drought and how drought is sensed, governed, and negotiated.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/drumming-for-love/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Mitchell Whitelaw's Weather Sculptures", "artist": "Mitchell Whitelaw", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Weather data is another interesting choice for creating data jewelry. Above to the left is a bracelet created by Mitchell Whitelaw based on one year of weather data from Canberra. The right image shows a measuring cup made by the same artist, where each ring represents monthly average temperatures in Sydney over 150 years. Sources: Mitchell Whitelaw. Weather Bracelet (2009) Mitchell Whitelaw. Measuring Cup (2010)", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/weather-bracelet-and-measuring-cup/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Rearrangeable Wooden Model of Brain Scan", "artist": "Neil Fraser", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A selection of MRI data glued on 60 wooden blocks which allow to physically dig into cross sections, by Neil Fraser. More details on infosthetics. Source: infosthetics.com.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/rearrangeable-wooden-model-of-3d-mri-data/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Justin Stewart's Data Sculptures", "artist": "Justin Stewart", "year": "2008", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "A 3-D graph and a time series visualization. Source: http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/tag/r-justin-stewart/", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/justin-stewarts-data-sculptures/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Coal Fired Computers", "artist": "YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji, Graham Harwood)", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "Discovery Museum, Newcastle, UK", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "In Coal Fired Computers, a one hundred year old, 17.5-ton showman’s steam engine powers a single computer with 1.5 tonnes of coal. Black lungs inflated every time the database record of a miner’s lung disease was shown on the computer monitors. The original work was produced over three days at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum, with groups of miner activists. The work was originally commissioned by AV Festival, Newcastle, UK and produced in partnership with Discovery Museum, Isis Arts and The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In collaboration with Jean Demars, the work was a response to the displacem", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/coal-fired-computers/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "In-Formed: More Data-Driven Tableware", "artist": "Nadeem Haidary", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Another data-driven tableware, this time conveying world statistics. The fork on the image shows calories consumption for the US and three other countries. Source: Nadeem Haidary.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/nadeem-haidarys-tableware/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "DataMorphose: Animated Sails", "artist": "Christiane Keller", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "interactive-installation", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "DataMorphose is an interactive installation which projects various data streams into real space and visualizes it three-dimensionally. Information is represented by spanned and moving sails directly in the room. Source: Christiane Keller (2009). Data Morphose.", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/displaying-data-through-animated-sails/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Body As Archive: Woman Life Freedom", "artist": "Hamdel Futurist Collaborative", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-9 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Body as Archive is a living ecosystem of creative disobedience. A multi-year civic infrastructure with custom open-source web commons, live data-visualization layers, expanded through site-responsive activations.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/body-as-archive-woman-life-freedom/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Form Follows Data: Tableware", "artist": "Iohanna Pani", "year": "2009", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "physical-installation", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "This set of tableware by designer Iohanna Pani conveys personal statistical data. Source: designboom", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/iohanna-panis-tableware/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Singing Textiles: Weaving Life", "artist": "Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-13 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The Singing Textiles: Weaving Life reimagines weaving as ecological and computational, as social infrastructure becoming a hybrid ecosystem that puts forward another ethical framework for technological development.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-singing-textiles/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Studies for", "artist": "evala, Sony Group Corporation", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-9 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Studies for is a human–AI co-creative installation proposing a new archive for spatial sound art. While spatial audio is often confined to specific surround formats, evala’s works use acoustic phenomena that inherently resist such convergence; they exist beyond any standard audio format.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/studies-for/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "and Counting... Tattoo of War Casualties", "artist": "Wafaa Bilal", "year": "2010", "venue_prize": "dataphys.org — List of Physical Visualizations", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "performance", "medium_class": "physical", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the deaths of Iraqis like his brother are largely invisible to the American public. and Counting… addresses this double standard as Bilal turns his own body — in a 24-hour live performance — into a canvas, his back tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq covered with one dot for each Iraqi and American casualty near the cities where they fell. The 5,000 dead American soldiers are represente", "source_url": "https://dataphys.org/list/and-counting-tattoo-of-war-casualties/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Coral Sonic Resilience", "artist": "Marco Barotti", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-13 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/coral-sonic-resilience/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Bruises: The Data We Don't See", "artist": "Giorgia Lupi", "year": "2018", "venue_prize": "Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "print-diagram", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Hand-drawn data portrait of the artist's daughter's illness, recording bruises and pain over time.", "source_url": "https://giorgialupi.com/bruises-the-data-we-dont-see", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "PET: Projected Emotional Technologies", "artist": "Arvida Byström", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-11 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "PET: Projected Emotional Technologies is a video that explores the uncomfortable, deeply human intimacy now mediated by artificial intelligence. The work takes its conceptual anchor from the comparison between companion animals, the original non-reciprocal source of human affection, and artificial companions.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/projected-emotional-technologies/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "SymbiOcean", "artist": "Rasa Weber", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-5 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "SymbiOcean is a four-year practice-based research project (2022–ongoing) by designer Rasa Weber that develops experimental methods to cultivate marine reef habitats in the Mediterranean.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/symbiocean/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Cortical Echoes: An Interface for Living Computation", "artist": "Amy Karle, Eduardo Reck Miranda", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-8 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Cortical Echoes is an art installation-performance aimed at bringing the uncharted frontier of computing with real neurons cultured in vitro into the public eye.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/cortical-echoes/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Holy Shit", "artist": "Caroline Barneaud, Stefan Kaegi", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-11 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "How do the bacteria in our microbiome influence our decisions? And what do volcanoes have to do with it? For a long time, it seemed as if the brain was the only centre of our identity.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/holy-shit/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Flynn", "artist": "Marcin Ratajczyk, Chiara Kristler, Malpractice", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-12 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Flynn is a non-human, non-binary AI art student — the first artificial intelligence admitted to a university. Developed by Malpractice (Chiara Kristler & Marcin Ratajczyk), Flynn enrolled at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2025, attending lectures, completing assignments, and running a 24-hour public hotline on feminist fatigue. Flynn is not the artwork. Flynn…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/flynn/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Fossilized Futures", "artist": "Robertina Sebjanic, Marco Barotti", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-13 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Fossilized Futures is an immersive opera, presented as a audio-visual installation linking ancient ecosystem(s), present landscape(s), and imagined future(s). Through multichannel sound, river data, and human voices performed by the Chamber Choir of Namur, it explores connections between time, ecology, and human activity.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/fossilized-futures/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Terp 360: Embodied AI for Expressive Sign Language", "artist": "Signvrse", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-12 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Terp 360 is an AI-powered communication platform that transforms spoken and written language into lifelike sign language through expressive 3D avatars. Combining generative AI, motion capture, and real-time rendering, the project explores how visual language can shape more inclusive digital systems.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/terp-360/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Breathing Architecture", "artist": "Filippo Nassetti", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-13 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/breathing-architecture/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Kataula", "artist": "Ana Mikadze", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-1 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Heidelberg Materials (previously Heidelberg Cement) is a German multinational building materials company. Offering a counter-narrative rooted in the locality of Kavtiskhevi, Georgia, told by the artist’s grandmother: the work seeks to dismantle Heidelberg Cement’s carefully curated image of responsibility.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/kataula/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Drinking Brecht", "artist": "sister sylvester", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-6 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Drinking Brecht is an expanded documentary that transforms the histories and politics of genetics and synthetic biology into a Marxist-feminist ritual.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/drinking-brecht/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Brain Processing Unit – The Future Where Biology and Computer Integrate", "artist": "SoftBank, Daito Manabe, The University of Tokyo – Special Exhibition", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize feld-11 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Focusing on the distinctive abilities of the human brain, such as adaptability to unfamiliar environments and remarkable learning efficiency, the SoftBank Research Institute of Advanced Technology has been collaborating with artist Daito Manabe and the Ikeuchi Laboratory at the University of Tokyo on a project since 2022.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/brain-processing-unit/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Data of Coca", "artist": "Plano Negativo", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The Data of Coca is a multidisciplinary project that examines the troubled past and present of the detection of coca in Colombia.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-data-of-coca/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Ocean Futurisms", "artist": "Inferstudio, TBA21, Radical Ocean Futures", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Through three original animated short films, Ocean Futurisms invites audiences to step into alternative, science-based futures for the ocean. Blending scientific forecasts with immersive storytelling, each of the three films rehearse questions for the future of ocean policy/governance through speculative scenario making and worldbuilding.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/ocean-futurisms/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Direito à Sombra (The Right to Shade)", "artist": "Mari Nagem, Thiago Hersan", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Direito à Sombra investigates shade as a socio-environmental right. Is shade accessible, or has it become a commodity?", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/direito-a-sombra-the-right-to-shade/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Morphogenic Angels: Chapter 2 (Alchemy of Perspectives) Demo", "artist": "Keiken", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Set 1000 years in the future on a parallel timeline, Morphogenic Angels: Chapter 2 (Alchemy of Perspectives) continues Keiken’s expansive universe of Morphogenic Angels, which explores identity, energy, perception, and consciousness.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/morphogenic-angels-chapter-2-alchemy-of-perspectives-demo/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "THE DELUSION", "artist": "Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley", "year": "2026", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "THE DELUSION is a multiplayer immersive experience that combines cooperative gaming and participatory theatre to explore themes of polarisation, censorship and social connection.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-delusion/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Clay PCB", "artist": "Patrícia J. Reis, Stefanie Wuschitz", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also ‘conflict minerals’ such as copper and gold. Technology is not neutral. We investigate alternative hardware from locally sourced materials from a feminist perspective, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/clay-pcb/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Mapping Uncertain Landscape: The Satellite", "artist": "Sofia Isupova", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The project explores the relationship between humans and machines, the map maker, and the map, looking closely at the remote-sensing infrastructures, and their problematics as well as questioning maps and mapping processes to detect changes in the landscape that are occurring daily due to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Transforming satellite images into maps…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-satellite/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Korallysis", "artist": "Gilberto Esparza", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Korallysis is a hybrid organism made up of technological devices and coral colonies that coexist in a mutualistic relationship. It is formed from ceramic segments, based on a geometry that allows it to adapt to the seabed. Its structure creates an ideal habitat for the development of coral communities, as a refuge for fish in…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/korallysis/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Destination Earth", "artist": "Salomé Bazin", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Destination Earth is a multi-sensory installation revealing the connection that ties atmosphere and ocean, humans and inhabitants of the sea, into a flow of interconnected motions.  Warming waters and changes in the overall water circulation are impacting sound propagation in the ocean, sea mammal migratory patterns and survival, influencing in return our climate and the…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/destination-earth/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "VRJ Palestine", "artist": "Nisreen Zahda", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The VRJ Palestine initiative (Virtual Reality Journey to pre-Nakba Palestine) delves into the potential and challenges of Virtual Reality tools to reclaim and recapture Nakba’s lost landscapes. Using archival data and survivors’ accounts to virtually reconstruct the Palestinian villages demolished in 1948, it aims to preserve intergenerational memories conveyed through stories and photos.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/vrj-palestine/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Self-Care", "artist": "Lyndsey Walsh", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Self-Care is a multi-media artwork and installation exploring notions of care, labor, intergenerational trauma, and bodies, as well as the impact of the gender binary on so-called “female” healthcare. Self-Care aims to critically examine notions of care, the role of gender in medicine, ableism, and familial relationships surrounding notions of disease. The project attempts to…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/self-care/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Narrative Futures: Panchatantra Fables meet Personal Primer", "artist": "Daniel Devatman Hromada, DigiEduBerlin (M)", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The concept of human-machine peer learning (HMPL), where a human learns from the machine (e.g. reading, foreign language) at the same time as the machine learns from the human (e.g. speech recognition), is deployed in the book-like artefact ready to narrate wisdom of ancient India.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/narrative-futures/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Soft Collision", "artist": "Anna Schaeffner", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Soft Collision (2024) looks at the potential of safe physical interaction by embracing collision rather than avoiding it. Through a deformable, pneumatic membrane that serves as a tangible interface to foster direct manipulation and live programming, making interactions more intuitive and inclusive.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/soft-collision/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Solar Protocol", "artist": "Solar Protocol Collective led by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella (M)", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 1 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Solar Protocol is a planetary-scale network of solar-powered servers, installed and maintained by volunteers around the world. The servers collectively host the Solar Protocol web platform at http://solarprotocol.net/, serving it from whichever server is in the most sunshine and therefore generating the most energy, at the time.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/solar-protocol/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Russian Airstrike on the Mariupol Drama Theater", "artist": "The Center for Spatial Technologies", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The destruction and subsequent occupation of Mariupol by the Russian Armed Forces have fragmented its communities, leaving most survivors dispersed across different regions of Ukraine and other parts of Europe, and the city beyond reconstruction. This project looks at the bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater as an emblem of Russia’s strategies of terror. Our…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/mariupol-drama-theater/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "METABOLICA", "artist": "Thomas Feuerstein", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "METABOLICA opens up the factory of life and in five chapters tells a story of change from the industrial revolution to the present and future, from whaling and petromodernity to current and future scenarios of biochemistry. Living organisms such as algae and bacteria become collaborators that lead to a new aesthetic and artistic practice through…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/metabolica/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Sentient Clit: the Pussification of BioTech", "artist": "Jiabao Li, WhiteFeather Hunter", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "We investigate the potential of producing lab-grown clitorises by isolating stem cells from menstrual fluid and 3D-bioprinting them into anatomically accurate gel supports (clits) for in vitro growth. We have differentiated the cells into neuronal types to speculate creating clitorises that respond ‘intelligently’ to stimuli through cultured neural networks.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/sentient-clit/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Prometheus Firebringer", "artist": "Annie Dorsen", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Prometheus Firebringer is a lecture-performance about generative AI, technology and power. On the performance side, the predictive text model GPT-4 generates speculative versions of the lost final play of Aeschylus’ Prometheia trilogy. Each night, a chorus of AI-generated Greek masks performs a new iteration. On the lecture side, Dorsen delivers a talk made up entirely…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/prometheus-firebringer/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Echinoidea Future – Adriatic Sensing", "artist": "Robertina Šebjanič", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Echinoidea Future – Adriatic Sensing explores the biogeological and morphological conditions impacting the sea urchin habitat. Anthropogenic liquid waste threatens their environment, leading to low oxygen levels in seawater. The study focuses on dissolved oxygen flux in coastal areas, revealing pollution’s profound impact on biodiversity. The ongoing dialogue prompts reflection on oceanic changes, transcending ecological…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/echinoidea-future/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Urban Biotope", "artist": "Vasily Sitnikov", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The Urban Biotope project operates on the borderline between human and non-human habitats. The 15 cm thick concrete screens for the building envelope create an interconnected cellular space for various biological species, surrounding the building with a self-sufficient ecosystem. Carefully sized cavities provide a favorable environment for various species of plants, insects, and nesting birds.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-urban-biotope/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Revolution Refridge", "artist": "Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies, Dani Ploeger", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "‘European-style’ refrigerators can only be operated with a large solar system that costs the equivalent of a year’s income or more. Especially during the extreme summer heat, the absence of adequate cooling systems has detrimental effects on the quality of life. At the same time, many people are not keen to explore alternatives that are…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/revolution-refridge/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Low Carbon Chinatown", "artist": "Ling Tan", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Low Carbon Chinatown (LCC) is an interactive urban intervention, participatory platform, and meal-as-performance, founded on AI and data science, addressing the Climate Crisis through the lens of global agri-food systems. Using Asian Chinese diasporic food culture as a starting point, it engages large groups of cross-generational diasporic East and Southeast Asians (ESEA) in the UK…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/low-carbon-chinatown/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Godmode Epochs", "artist": "dmstfctn", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 7 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Godmode Epochs is a single and multiplayer AI training clicker game set among the lined shelves of an infinite, simulated supermarket. Each playthrough is a numbered “training epoch” during which players race against time to teach an AI to identify products. As players inevitably frustrate the AI, they are taken into its mind—a dungeon filled…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/godmode-epochs/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Waterworks of Money", "artist": "Carlijn Kingma", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Although money plays a key role in our lives, the workings of our monetary and financial system are a mystery to most of us. The Waterworks of Money demystifies the world of big finance by visualizing the flow of money through our society. It explores several options for improvement using new technologies—with the ultimate goal…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/waterworks-of-money/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "P2P", "artist": "Eva & Franco Mattes (IT, US)", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Inspired by a speculative project by architect Rem Koolhaas—who planned to bring a museum inside a data center—but reversing it by bringing a data center inside a museum, P2P celebrates peer communities created by artists who have used the internet to share works and knowledge over the last twenty years.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/p2p/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "GR-AI-N", "artist": "Marielena Papandreou", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The GR-AI-N project seeks to harness the potential of discarded materials from the wood industry. This involves a type of digital craft that is grounded on computer vision and robotics. Post-scanning, AI-powered tools are employed to extract wood’s grain patterns, texture, imperfections. This data is used to enable unique designs that harmonize with the natural…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/gr-ai-n/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "FORMATA", "artist": "PЯОТO-ALIEИ PЯOJECT", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "FORMATA is a multi-sensory art installation, featuring lively and autonomous blobs within an experimental reactor crafted to simulate the conditions of an alien world with liquid formamide. The vibrant blobs that inhabit this ‘mini-planet’ are composed of abiotic fatty acids, amino acids, and hydrocarbons—echoing the organic materials found in meteorites and comets.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/formata/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car", "artist": "Tomo Kihara, Daniel Coppen", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car is a game installation that challenges people to cross the street without being detected by an AI. In the experience, players see themselves augmented on a large screen at the end of a playing field, simulating the perspective of an AI-powered camera of a self-driving car.…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/how-not-to-get-hit-by-ai/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Maria CHOIR", "artist": "Maria Arnal Dimas", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Maria CHOIR is an immersive human-AI musical installation that invites participants to explore the boundaries of singing and listening through real-time interaction with an AI. This artwork leverages a model trained on the voice of singer Maria Arnal, enabling a unique duet between visitor and AI that evolves with each interaction, becoming a choir.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/maria-choir/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "AUTOPOIESIS", "artist": "ATELIER-E", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "How might an installation engage not with humans directly, but with their minds? AUTOPOIESIS offers an experience that defies easy interpretation, oscillating between activation and deceleration. It utilizes our sensory system, converting light and sound into neurophysiological processes, exploring how audio-visual stimuli affect the brain.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/autopoiesis/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Bibliokepos", "artist": "Nomad Garden", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Libraries are democratic places, open to everybody, and as the inscription at the entrance to Epicurus’ Garden Kêpos stated: “Stranger, your time will be pleasant here”. Bibliokepos aspires to rethink the public libraries in Seville as facilities in a climate emergency scenario. The project explores the future of existing libraries as shelters, imagining them as…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/bibliokepos/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Nishikigoi NFT", "artist": "Toshi", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Nishikigoi NFT is a project that supports diverse cultures by connecting art and technology with local communities. We work to create a new type of community that uses blockchain technology to preserve the vital local resources that we need to live.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/nishikigoi-nft/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Nebelivka Hypothesis", "artist": "Forensic Architecture, David Wengrow", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 3 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Below Ukraine’s rich, black soils lie ancient settlements, rivals in scale to the first Mesopotamian cities, yet conceived on radically different principles. Their archaeological remains trouble our understandings of urban space, power, and ecology.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/nebelivka-hypothesis/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Year of Weather", "artist": "Open-weather", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/year-of-weather/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "ASTRES: Mapping the Firmament", "artist": "Playmodes Studio", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "ASTRES is an audiovisual installation using laser light and sound to celebrate the night sky. The project employs algorithmic systems to address constantly changing star positions, with precise laser calibration techniques developed through university collaboration.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/astres/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Museo Ocasional de un Paisaje Increíble", "artist": "Ana Vogelfang, Julieta García Vázquez", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "The Occasional Museum of an Incredible Landscape (MOPI) is a nomadic, ephemeral museum rethinking our relationship with landscapes, ecosystems, and collective memory. Created by Argentine artists Julieta García Vázquez and Ana Vogelfang, MOPI merges participatory art, environmental research, and territorial practices.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/museo-ocasional-de-un-paisaje-increible/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Surpassing Limits of Virtuosity of Pianists by Exoskeleton", "artist": "Shinichi Furuya", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 11 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "We tested whether passively experiencing motions that have been not experienced could surmount the ceiling effect and enhance the already well-honed skills of experts. We utilized a novel exoskeleton robot attachable to fingers.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/surpassing-limits-of-virtuosity/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Large Language Writer", "artist": "Lucy Li, Leo Mühlfeld, Alan Schiegl", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 12 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "How will we write in the future, and why should we design “seamful” interactions? The Large Language Writer (LLW) is an experimental design project that explores honest interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs).", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/large-language-writer/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Lucid Life | Marama Ora", "artist": "Christopher Bellamy", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 13 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Inspired by the symbiotic relationship between corals and microorganisms, Christopher Bellamy has developed a contemporary living material that encapsulates bioluminescent microalgae. This living material glows in response to touch and requires only sunlight to survive, with a lifespan of at least six months.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/lucid-life-marama-ora/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Emerald Black Latency", "artist": "Mario Santamaría", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Emerald Black Latency takes the Medusa Submarine Cable System as a starting point to explore the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the internet. Planned for 2026, Medusa is an 8,700 km fiber optic cable designed to enhance connectivity in the Mediterranean and link Europe with North Africa.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/emerald-black-latency/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Permanent and Insatiable", "artist": "Xin Liu", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/the-permanent-and-insatiable/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Light, Touch, Root (Hybrid)", "artist": "Vanessa Amoah Opoku", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "During a research residency with Künstlerische Tatsachen at the University of Ulm’s TRR234 CataLight, I explored molecular light-driven catalysis in soft matter systems. Using near-infrared LiDAR, I scanned so-called “invasive” plants, creating point clouds that reimagine their presence in a sci-fi-inspired world with two suns.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/light-touch-root-hybrid/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Zifzafa", "artist": "Lawrence Abu Hamdan", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 9 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/zifzafa/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "The Solar Share – An Edible Solar Currency", "artist": "DISNOVATION.ORG art collective", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/solar-share/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "AI in the Sky", "artist": "Laura Cinti", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "At the heart of this project is a plant so rare that it stands on the brink of extinction. This plant, the Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a cycad classified as ‘extinct in the wild,’ is known from a single pollen-producing specimen found in South Africa’s oNgoye Forest in the late 19th century.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/ai-in-the-sky/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Performative Ethnographies", "artist": "Špela Petrič", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 6 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "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.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/performative-ethnographies/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "HYBRIS", "artist": "Yana Zschiedrich", "year": "2025", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 5 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "HYBRIS is an art-based research initiative presenting an innovative method for transforming waste into both art and building materials. Since 2019, Yana Zschiedrich has explored this concept through a collaboration with mealworms, which decompose polystyrene into biodegradable substances. These can replace sand in new, sustainable construction applications.", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/hybris/", "verify_status": "toVerify" }, { "title": "Arts at CERN", "artist": "CERN", "year": "2024", "venue_prize": "S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 (Ars Electronica)", "clusters": [ 8 ], "axis_pole": "mixed", "form": "hybrid", "medium_class": "hybrid", "lab_renderable": false, "decisive_move": "Arts at CERN is the arts program of CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2012, when the first artist in residence arrived, we invite artists to experience how physicists and engineers use the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to explore the big questions about the Universe. Arts at…", "source_url": "https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/arts-at-cern/", "verify_status": "toVerify" } ]