2025 – Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards

Ancestors

The Smartphone Orchestra synchronizes anywhere from ten to thousands of smartphones

Cat Royale

Blast Theory makes interactive art to explore social and political questions.

Ceci est mon cœur

Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance

Eclipsing

Point A is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artists Andrew Schneider and

Eno

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

Pinny Grylls is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and ethnographer. Her debut

Kerosene Chronicles. Fungus

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