View the long-list of nominations for the FutureEverything Award which was sent to our International Jury, so that they could select a shortlist of three outstanding projects.
We were delighted with the high calibre and diversity of artist submissions and nominated projects for the debut FutureEverything Award. Over 1000 people registered submissions to the FutureEverything Award or Festival by the 15th January deadline. This long-list of nominations were sent to the International Jury, who through a rigorous selection process selected a shortlist of three outstanding projects. This final shortlist was then put to an open vote by the FutureEverything Community to decide the Winner.
5.5 designers
France
November 2009
'the guide to free farming' reveals the unsuspecting resources hidden
in our towns. Recipes include street flower salad and grilled rat,
along with instruction guides to plucking a pigeon, collecting
dandelion greens, snails and honey, and uses for expired food.
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Artists: Lila Chitayat, Alon Chitayat, Tal Chalosin
Israel
2009
TaxiLink Project is an interactive installation which creates a link
between a taxi driving in Jerusalem and participants from a distant
location abroad. Sitting in the static TaxiLink booth, passengers join
a live tour around the old city of Jerusalem.
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Superflex
Denmark
2009
Flooded McDonald's is a film work by Superflex in which a convincing
life-size replica of a McDonald's burger bar, without any customers or
staff present, gradually floods with water. Food floats, electrics
short circuit and the space becomes completely submerged.
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Sosolimited
USA
October 2008
ReConstitution was a live audiovisual remix of the 2008 Presidential
debates. Through a series of visual and sonic transformations we
reconstituted the material, revealed linguistic patterns, exposed
content and structures, and fundamentally altered the way in which the
debates were watched.
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Scott Hessels
USA
November 2009
The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of
falling water as the energy to create a moving picture. As water falls
over the 12-foot-high wheel, a transmission assembly causes two wheels
to spin in opposite directions.
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Ryoji Ikeda
Japan
October 2008
The Paris night sky is illuminated with blinding white light beamed vertically from scores of highly powered architectural lamps. A major new work by international artist Ryoji Ikeda, commissioned for Nuit Blanche, the city’s annual white night contemporary arts festival.
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Rob Davis & Usman Haque
UK
2009
The Siphonophiora project uses small reactive devices situated in one of
Gunpowder Parks’ lakes to record and observe environmental data. The
small reactive devices will track light, temperature, pH levels and
other pond life activity, feeding this information live onto
pachcube.com.
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Open_Sailing
International
2009
In order to live at sea, we’re pioneering an entirely new form of marine architecture. Open_Sailing acts like a globally-concious superorganism, a cluster of intelligent units that can react to their environment, change shape and reconfigure themselves.
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Marina Zurkow
USA
2009
The animated, carnivalesque tailgate party of Slurb loops and stutters like a vinyl record stuck in a groove. Slurb – a word that collapses “slum” and “suburb” – encapsulates a dreamy ode to the rise of slime, a watery future in which jellyfish have dominion.
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
Poland
June 2009
The protagonists of Guests are immigrants, people who, not being ‘at home’, remain ‘eternal guests’. ‘Strangers’, ‘others’ are key notions in Wodiczko’s artistic practice, enabling those who, deprived of rights, remain mute to communicate and have presence in public space.
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Canada
2009
Have you ever found refuge from a summer shower under the eaves? This piece shows that it is not safe even under a roof. Lightening and shadows of trees surround the windows. It shows you things normally not visible, creating a storm that can really be felt.
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Michelle Teran
Spain
2009
'Buscando Al Sr. Goodbar' is a bus journey visiting the locations and authors of various YouTube videos produced in Murcia, Spain. During the journey the public met some of the YouTube authors who presented them with a reenactment of their performances.
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v*i*d*a labs/Alejandro Tamayo
Colombia/Spain
January 2009
The temporal laboratory investigated how organic material (fruits) could be used for representing binary information and how it could be possible to use it for implementing logic decision devices, that in sum, constitute the building blocks of computers.
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Artists: Tony Quan, Chris Sugrue, Theo Watson, Zach Lieberman, Evan Roth, James Powderly, The Ebeling Group, Graffiti Research Lab, OpenFrameworks and the FAT Lab with support from The Not Impossible Foundation, Parsons The New School for Design, LM4K, Greg Leuch, Elenanor Dunk and Jamie Wilkinson
International
Ongoing
The EyeWriter itself is a pair of low-cost eye- tracking glasses & custom software that allow artists and graffiti writers with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
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CAMP
India
January 2010
2x2 is an event presenting four CAMP projects in sets of two, setting up
some relationships between them, and between "local" contexts, whether
in Gujarat or Palestine. These projects took place in Sharjah, Delhi,
Jerusalem, and London.
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Brendan Walker
UK
2009
Could you control a rider's
experience based purely on their physiological data? Bucking Bronco:
Adaptive Rider Experiment No.1 featured 3 bankers, each with different
attitudes to thrill seeking and risk taking...
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Atelier Bow-Wow
Japan
January 2009
Exploring the urban dynamics of contemporary Los Angeles, Atelier Bow-Wow's Small Case Study House responds to contemporary models for housing in L.A. as they relate to concepts of customization, re-use, and "architectural behaviorology."
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Angela Palmer
UK
November 2009
Seeking to raise public
awareness of the connections between deforestation and climate change,
Ghost Forest involves presenting a series of 10 rainforest tree stumps,
most with their buttress roots still attached, from a regulated,
commercially logged tropical rainforest in Ghana.
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Artists: David Benjamin, Amelia Black, Natalie Jeremijenko, Abha Katar- ia, Jonathan Laventhol, Deborah Richards, Zenon Tech-Czarny, Kevin Wei, Chris Woebken, Soo-In Yang
USA
2009
Installed at two sites along the East and the Bronx Rivers, Amphibious Architecture is a network of floating interactive buoys housing a range of sensors below water and an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) above water.
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sascha Pohflepp
UK/Germany
2009
Inspired by the idea of synthetic biology, designers Sascha Pohflepp and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg developed an imaginary design for a futuristic herbicide sprayer, constructed from engineered plant parts, that would "protect delicate engineered horticultural machines from older nature."
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Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey
USA/Mexico
2009
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings of the song “Daisy Bell” collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.
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