Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Drawing with wind
azhang
The machine detects winds speed and direction, feeding fluctuant weather data into a robotic drawing board that moves, rotates and wiggles based in the live data. The artist attempts to co-operate with the apparatus, making marks on the unstable surface and turning the invisible feeling of wind into abstract drawings. “Technology is a way of revealing, a mode of being concerning which we are questioning.” - Martin Heidegger in The Question Concerning Technology. Could we reach a state of understanding between human, nature and technology? The project aims to explore the relationship between human, nature and technology by bring unfamiliar possibilities into our sensory experience. Digital technology is fasting the change of many areas in life, in this project, the use of the machine proposes a positive future. By questioning how these computer algorithms can reimagine seemingly fixed concepts of reality, we hope it might help us to find an interpretation of coexistence or unfold a new perspective. Wind, as a metaphor for an ever-changing state of uncertainty, is reflecting the urgent global issues of climate change and unsettling social conditions effecting by technologies. The interactions between man and machine in nature become a response or reflection on how people coordinate within the current situations. As the person interact with the machine in nature, translating their sensory experience into expressive drawings, the process becomes a channel to unite with art, nature and technology in the present moment. “Drawing with wind” is a collaboration project between artist Hua Zhang and Ashley Yuqi Zhang.
The machine detects winds speed and direction, feeding fluctuant weather data into a robotic drawing board that moves, rotates and wiggles based in the live data. The artist attempts to co-operate with the apparatus, making marks on the unstable surface and turning the invisible feeling of wind into abstract drawings. “Technology is a way of revealing, a mode of being concerning which we are questioning.” - Martin Heidegger in The Question Concerning Technology. Could we reach a state of understanding between human, nature and technology? The project aims to explore the relationship between human, nature and technology by bring unfamiliar possibilities into our sensory experience. Digital technology is fasting the change of many areas in life, in this project, the use of the machine proposes a positive future. By questioning how these computer algorithms can reimagine seemingly fixed concepts of reality, we hope it might help us to find an interpretation of coexistence or unfold a new perspective. Wind, as a metaphor for an ever-changing state of uncertainty, is reflecting the urgent global issues of climate change and unsettling social conditions effecting by technologies. The interactions between man and machine in nature become a response or reflection on how people coordinate within the current situations. As the person interact with the machine in nature, translating their sensory experience into expressive drawings, the process becomes a channel to unite with art, nature and technology in the present moment. “Drawing with wind” is a collaboration project between artist Hua Zhang and Ashley Yuqi Zhang.