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.
Shifting- The Climate Adaptation Project
Naomi Slaney
Overflow is an online interactive fiction experience based on realistic climate scenarios and their implications on human life. The current story represents a scenario that takes place somewhere on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and is built from a multi-layered script with a large number of different plots and endings. The experience throws the user into an extreme climatic reality and confronts them with various dilemmas and choices. The user can navigate within the plot, and influence its development through decisions they take. Each decision shapes a personal profile for each player that is revealed at the end of the experience. This project aims to empower the participants with a sense of capability of facing a dystopian future, and to raise awareness of the global climate crisis. The photo is from the online interactive fiction experience.
Overflow is an online interactive fiction experience based on realistic climate scenarios and their implications on human life. The current story represents a scenario that takes place somewhere on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and is built from a multi-layered script with a large number of different plots and endings. The experience throws the user into an extreme climatic reality and confronts them with various dilemmas and choices. The user can navigate within the plot, and influence its development through decisions they take. Each decision shapes a personal profile for each player that is revealed at the end of the experience. This project aims to empower the participants with a sense of capability of facing a dystopian future, and to raise awareness of the global climate crisis. The photo is from the online interactive fiction experience.