Backup Ukraine

A digital preservation initiative that enables Ukrainians to use 3D scanning technology to archive cultural landmarks and artifacts, safeguarding them in an online database.

The Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration

An interactive narrative game in which players use generative AI to resolve crises across multiverses.

Channels

A multisensory performance exploring chronic illness, virtual togetherness, and the interconnectedness of bodies, inviting audiences to rethink pain, care, and connection.

deepwork

A satirical website that uses AI to generate professional personas—complete with CVs, profile photos, and social media posts—critiquing the pressure to curate an idealized identity in today’s workplace culture.

Dreamachine

A contemporary reimagining of an experimental device developed in 1959 to create vivid, unique inner visions, inviting participants to explore consciousness and connection. BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE WINNER

Evolver

An immersive VR journey, narrated by Cate Blanchett, that explores the flow of oxygen within the body, revealing the profound connection between breath, life, and the natural world.
About the Creators Barnaby Steel is the founder and creative director

Immortality

An interactive mystery game that invites players to uncover the story of a missing actress through fragmented film clips that explore Hollywood's history of misogyny and exploitation.

Sutuverse

An evolving Web3 playground that's home to interactive experiences created by the Australian artist Sutu.
ABOUT THE CREATOR Stuart Campbell, better known as Sutu, uses art

Theater of the Mind

An installation created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar to demonstrate how fungible our consensual reality actually is.
Mala Gaonkar is the founder and chairwoman of SurgoCap Partners, an

Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)

Installations by the artist Tomás Saraceno that propose a conversation between human and nonhuman lifeforms.
Tomás Saraceno is an Argentine-born, Berlin-based artist who has worked with

Song of the Ambassadors

A groundbreaking opera that uses technological and scientific innovation to promote healing through sound.

Unlearning Language

An interactive installation and performance project intended to provoke new understandings of language that are undetectable to algorithms. SPECIAL JURY PRIZE WINNER
2023 | Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards