2025 – Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards

Ancestors

What kind of world will we leave for humans six generations into the future?

The Smartphone Orchestra synchronizes anywhere from ten to thousands of smartphones

Cat Royale

A utopia where cats and robots live in harmony.

Q&A WITH BLAST THEORY This interview was conducted over video by

Ceci est mon cœur

How can a child make peace with his body?

Q&A WITH THE ARTISTS This interview was conducted via videoconference in

Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance

Eclipsing

Alignment, synchronicity and coincidence were key to a guided experience of the eclipse.

Point A is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artists Andrew Schneider and

Eno

BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE WINNER

Photo: Jessica Edwards Gary Hustwit is a filmmaker and visual artist

Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

IN THE MEDIA “On a large plinth surrounded by velvet-upholstered banquette

The Game of Whispers

Grand Theft Hamlet

Along the way they were influenced by artists who had embraced

Kerosene Chronicles. Fungus

Will our sense of smell give us an advantage over machines? SPECIAL JURY PRIZE WINNER

The fungus machines use smell to find one another. From time

Lennox Mutual

Founded by Evan Neiden, Chicago-based Candle House Collective is the award-winning

Sweet Dreams

IN THE MEDIA “Sweet Dreams is centred on the story of

The Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards are presented by the Columbia University School of the Arts' Digital Storytelling Lab

2025 | Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards