2025 Hybrid Award Finalists
Mind in Motion
Yunso Jung
Mind in Motion is a series of interfaces that translate brain activity into creative outputs. At a time when the creative process is often automated, these interfaces offer users a souvenir that—even without direct control—can become an 'authentic' imprint of individuality.
Biblically Accurate Babe
Arvida Byström
Biblically Accurate Babe began when I found an AI tool that undresses women. I fed it images of myself and sold the deepfake nudes via a chatbot version of me. Now a holographic installation, the work merges sacred iconography with AI to expose digital authorship and desire.
In motion
Akinori Goto
Light projects onto a rotating mesh, revealing silhouettes of walking figures. This analog system visualizes motion, tracing paths, memories, and layers of time. As viewers walk through the space, they become part of this intersection of trajectories and unfolding moments.
REPLICATIO
Marco Conti Šikić
REPLICATIO explores how authorship, meaning, and transformation emerge from interaction between human gesture, AI, and mechanical reproduction. Through iterative reinterpretation, it challenges originality's boundaries and redefines drawing as a generative, collaborative process
Auroboros - Biomimicry
Paula Sello
A groundbreaking fusion of nature and technology, presenting the world’s first couture that grows on the body in real-time. Through a crystallisation process, garments bloom organically over 6–12 hours before eventually disintegrating—mirroring the cycle of life.
River Biographies
Lundahl & Seitl
River Biographies reimagines the exhibition as a living ecosystem—porous to bodies, memory, and emotion. Guided by voices, moved by each other, visitors embody water and stone, writing the life of a river in the space between. We are not in nature—nature is within us.
Lucida (I-VI)
Lachlan Turczan
Lucida invites viewers into a space sculpted entirely from light. Luminous veils ripple through mist, blurring the line between the tangible and intangible. Light takes on a physical presence—touched, inhabited, and shaped by movement.
Liquid Strata
Entangled Others
Liquid Strata explores 'marine snow'—microscopic organic particles drifting to the ocean floor. This art-science collaboration with oceanographer Joan Llort uses complex modeling simulations and sonic data to reveal an invisible global phenomenon known only through fragments.
la traversée de la forêt (crossing the forest)
aurèce vettier
Monumental installation combining AI-generated imagery, bronze sculptures, oil paintings and Jacquard tapestry. It explores the poetic intersection of intimate memories, impossible nature, and technology through hybrid works born from dreams, personal data, AI and craftsmanship.
Whisper
Yoki Yao
Whisper is a kinetic installation that simulates a looping Game of Telephone by using AI’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text services to transmit the warnings displayed on the interfaces of popular AI chatbot agents, inviting reflection on the trust we place in AI technologies.
Toru
Carlo Van de Roer and Taika Waititi
Toru is a three-channel video installation and interactive digital work by Carlo Van de Roer and Taika Waititi exploring mythology and new filmmaking technology to re-engage with early storytelling systems that shaped cultural memory through collaboration and reinterpretation.