2025 Literature & Poetry Award Finalists
SHADOW OF DOUBT
Jakub Koźniewski
Fake news from dawn to dusk. A concrete poetry object for an age of post-truth in form of 'augmented reality' sculpture, combining 3D-printed “sundial' gnomon and e-paper screen - displaying fake ray-traced shadow constructed from the latest fake news headlines.
Abstract Language Model
Andreas Lutz
An artificial neural net was trained with all characters included in the Unicode Standard. The resulting AV installation is based on a real-time interpolation through this 'machine created semiotic system' and depicts the transformation into a trans-human / trans-machine language
Dự án tiếng Việt (Our Vietnamese Project)
Pham Phan Nhan
Our Vietnamese Project is a collective inquiry into Vietnamese language in the context of computational art. Revolving around the nature of monosyllabism, the project dives into the grassroots of our language―syllables, proving that Vietnamese is still, a living language.
Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
Nathaniel Stern
Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies combines Artificial Intelligence with traditional artistic forms, in six poems-as-installations that explore the co-evolution of humanity and its technologies – from fire, language, and writing to automation and AI.
WORDS BEYOND WORDS
Sasha Stiles
WORDS BEYOND WORDS is an infinite poem that explores, expresses & embodies the evolving dialogue between language and technology, author and algorithm — powered by a custom generative system built to invoke an emergent AI poet & transform the browser window into a dynamic book.
Space Chronicles
赵昶然
This work explores linguistic evolution in interplanetary colonization. Using AI to simulate alien languages shaped by planetary conditions, it reflects on cultural diversity, communication barriers, and the future of human cognition in extreme environments.
Cloud Scripts
Kian-Peng Ong
CLOUD SCRIPTS is a generative art installation exploring Daoist Cloud Seals (Yúnzhuàn 雲篆) as asemic communication with the spiritual world. Using a fine-tuned Gen AI model trained on Daoist scriptures, it generates talismans—machine-made letters to the unseen realm.
Miniscriber
Wen New Atelier
The Miniscriber is a conceptual poetry synth: a physical machine that turns reader-viewers into word jockeys who can sample and sculpt words into digital, visual poems. A literary device that fosters a conceptual, critical, contemporary engagement with text.