2024 Futures Award Finalists
Still Remember
Still Remember
0xhaiku
"Still Remember" a relational art uses smart contracts. Participants mint the work by sharing memories as emojis, receiving a fragment of the artist's memory. The image degrades over time, requiring active engagement to preserve it, symbolizing the ephemeral nature of memory.
Catalog for the Post-Human
Catalog for the Post-Human
Parsons & Charlesworth
Catalog for the Post-Human is a satirical multimedia installation featuring 10 sculptural works and animations mimicking a near-future organization’s trade fair booth. The work critiques late capitalism's role in creating ethically questionable workplace enhancement products.
Reverberating Light
Reverberating Light
Yael Erel
Sound-responsive light projections shine onto augmented mirrored discs reflecting dynamic light drawings that seem otherworldly and alive. Viewers immerse in a multi-sensory experience of a spatial phenomena that is both rational and mysterious.
Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊*·˚
Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊*·˚
Keiken
“Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊*·̊'' is an immersive and interactive installation, featuring a haptic wearable womb. It explores empathetic connection, embodiment and communication while drawing from the body’s energy currents, material animism and sensory substitution.
Synchronization Station
Synchronization Station
Allen Riley
Synchronization Station is a participatory performance about mediated intimacy that uses analog video mixing as a counterpoint to everyday communication technologies. It explores human connection from the vantage point of an otherworldly human-computer interaction demonstration.
Phytopoiesis
Phytopoiesis
Scenocosme
Phytopoiesis is an interactive visual and sound art installation reacts to the human touch.. It is composed of a living plant capable of generating images using artificial intelligence. The relation is constantly renewed.
Potato Internet
Potato Internet
Caroline Sinders
An installation built around small scale mesh network partially powered by potatoes, using recycled e-waste, that creates a privacy focused small scale social network built on intersectional and feminist values.
Drone in Search for a Four-Leaf Clover
Drone in Search for a Four-Leaf Clover
Sputniko!
In today’s era of AI-driven efficiency, the artist has equipped a drone with advanced image recognition algorithms, enabling it to effortlessly locate that lucky four-leaf clover.
Imperfect Lovers
Imperfect Lovers
Nathaniel Stern
Imperfect Lovers performs two coded, on-chain Lovers, each giving the other "everything they have," until there is literally "nothing left to give." Even then, they continue to attempt trans-actions to and for one another, but fail.
The Case for a Small Language Model
The Case for a Small Language Model
Richard Vijgen
The Case For a Small Language Network is a speculative AI based on the work of Dutch composer and poet Rozalie Hirs. It reflects on the role of authorship in generative AI and questions the practice of reducing the written expressions of millions into statistical resources.