As part of our Global Call and search for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2023, we invited leading actors in science and academia worldwide to nominate the latest breakthroughs and outstanding science projects in 9 different categories, Art & Science being one of them. Our distinguished jury for Art & Science, chaired by Horst Bredekamp, selected 10 excellent winners in this category. One of them will be awarded with the prestigious title Science Breakthrough of the Year, Art & Science.
MEET OUR Art & Science WINNERS
You can discover the 10 winners in Art & Science 2023 below. To see the winners in each category, click here, to see the finalists in each category, click here.
ANA MARÍA GÓMEZ LÓPEZ – SANDBERG INSTITUTE, ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ART
Breaking the Wall to Self-Experimentation
Using an ophthalmological prosthetic designed to collect tears, Ana María Gómez López carried out a self-experiment to achieve an intra-corporeal plant growth in her eyelid.
CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU – INTERFACE CULTURES UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN LINZ
Breaking the Wall to The Artwork as a Living System
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau pioneered the art of interface, in which innovative technical interfaces enable the visitor to physically interact with the artwork.
DIETMAR OFFENHUBER – NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Breaking The Wall to Plant-Based Air Quality Monitoring
Dietmar Offenhuber developed „Ozone tattoo” as a plant-based visualisation system to detect harmful levels of ground-level ozone, a pollutant connected to both climate change and air pollution.
ELAINE CHEW – KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
Breaking the Wall to Understanding Music’s Effect on the Heart
To see the effect of music on the heart, Elaine Chew creates models to characterise and visualise performed and composed music structures linking those to physiological signals from wearable sensors.
HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG – INDEPENDENT ARTIST
Breaking The Wall to Using Art To Reveal Xenotransplantation Research
Through her art installation, Heather Dewey-Hagborg confronts the viewer with the emerging science and medical reality of xenotransplantation research.
HELENA NIKONOLE & LUCY OJOKOMO– INDEPENDENT ARTISTS
Breaking the Wall to Bio-Semiotic Innovations
Helena Nikonole & Lucy Ojomoko developed DIY approaches for modifying human skin microbiome to produce smells that can be easily detected to self-diagnose or prevent diseases.
JANET LAURENCE – UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Breaking The Wall to An Experiential Interconnectedness Of Care For Our Nature
Janet Laurence explores human physical, cultural, and conflicting relationships with nature using evocative natural materials in her immersive installations.
MARGARET WERTHEIM – INSTITUTE OF FIGURING
Breaking the Wall to Women-Centered Community-Based Sci-Art
Margaret Wertheim works with communities worldwide to create complex sculptural installations that emulate coral reefs in a collective response to the devastation of living reefs by global warming and oceanic plastic trash.
NATALIA RIVERA & JUNG HSU – UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTE BERLIN
Breaking the Wall to Resist like Bacteria
Natalia Rivera & Jung Hsu developed the website Bi0film.net, which aims to facilitate the connection to alternative networks and acknowledge the importance of seeking autonomy in modern communication technologies.
SHEUNG YIU – AALTO UNIVERSITY
Breaking the Wall to the Scale and Resolution Limit in Earth Observation
With hiss project “Ground Truth” Sheung Yiu explores cutting-edge imaging techniques, using meticulous on-site measurements of physical structures and spectral properties of trees.
The Global Call 2023 has ended on 15 May 2023, the next Global Call will take place in 2024. You will find all relevant information and updates here and in our newsletter.
Falling Walls seeks artists whose work is inspired and influenced by science across a wide range of subjects (from the humanities to life sciences, technology and more), which sheds light on societal issues, natural phenomena or simply the wonder of scientific discoveries, and which highlights the unique relationship between these apparently opposite but often highly complementary disciplines.