NTAA Award, International New Technology Art Award

Abstract

Zebrastraat - Zebrastraat 32/001 - 9000 Ghent - België Organisation: Liedts-Meesen Foundation

In reply to the call for entries for the international contest New Technological Art Award (NTAA) 2022, 836 candidates representing 72 nationalities worldwide have applied.

Out of these projects, an international jury has selected 20 nominees:

Haseeb Ahmed (US/BE) – Stock Weather (2020) Bull.Miletic (NO) – Ferriscope (1893 – 2020) (2020) Peter Burr (US) – Dirtscraper (2020) Peter de Cupere (BE) – Olfabet (2021) Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves (FR) – Martian Sun Series (2019) Şölen Kıratlı (TR/US), Hannen Wolfe (US), Alex Bundy (US) – Cacophonic Choir (2019) Egor Kraft (RU/AT) – Content Aware Studies Series (2020) LarbitsSisters (BE) – Crypto Miner Car (2021) Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler (DE) – RE:PLACES (2021) Felix Luque Sánchez (SP/BE) – Perpetuité I (2021) Julian Palacz (AT) – Handle with Care (2021) Giacomo Piazzi & Matthias Pitscher – The Chiromancer (2020) Tivon Rice (US) – Models For Environmental Literacy (2020) Irakli Sabekia (GE) – Voicing Borders (2019) Theresa Schubert (DE) – mEat me (2020) Ling Tan (UK) – Playing Democracy (2020) Timothy Thomasson (CA) – Slow Track (2021) Nathan Thompson, Guy Ben-Ary, Sebastian Diecke (AU) – Bricolage (2020) Jeroen van Loon (NL) – Permanent Data (2020) ::vtol:: (RU) – Floating Point Number (2019)

The jury members who casted their vote were Yves Bernard (founder of iMAL, curator and artist), Edwin Carels (curator new media exhibitions), Jean-Marie Dallet (artist, research professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Tom Dekyvere (artist), Nick Ervinck (artist, winner of the update_2 public award), Ralph Dum (scientific officer and senior expert of the European Commission), Karen Helmerson (program director for Electronic Media, Film & Visual Art at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)), Julien Maire (artist and laureate of the update_2 jury prize), Françoise Meesen (Liedts-Meesen Foundation), Alain Thibault (artistic director ELEKTRA Montreal) and Stef Van Bellingen (consultant for Zebrastraat / artistic leader VZW Warp).

NTAA Award, International New Technology Art Award, Zebrastraat, Ghent, BE, 05.02 -13.05.2022