Finalists of the Cool Silicon Art Award 2011
The five-member Jury of the Cool Silicon Art Award 2011 which wants to initiate the for the community strongly needed communication between art and technology has nominated the 10 finalists from 6 nations out of 110 applications.The international jury which consists, in the sense of the Cool Silicon Art Award, of both representatives of art and technologies and research and wants to show a wide, artistical, international and contemporary range of art works which don`t simply depict linearly the social and global development in the context of energy efficiency but scrutinize from the artistic, metaphorical and philosophical point of view with the complex languages of art as: photography, installation, interactive installation, drawing, sculpture, light and kinetics.
The 10 finalists take part in the first exhibition of the Cool Silicon Art Award 2011 that will be opened on December 9th in the building ensemble "Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau".
The Cool Silicon Art Award is endowed with 10,000 euros.
Alexander Gutsche (D)
Sculpture: „Chinesische Gotik“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Andreas Hetfeld (NL)
energy autarchic Installation, Drawing: „Sonnenbaum“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Gustavo Espinosa (UK)
Photography: „The Four Primary Elemnts"
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
m.giltjes/bobok (D)
Photography: „sunflower bingo–und jetzt: silizium für alle!"
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Max Scholz (D)
Installation: „RAUMFAHRTCIRCUS“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Lena Lapschina (AT)
Sculpture, Installation: „Ichtiander 3.0“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Scenocosme (F)
interactive Installation: „Akousmaflore“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Norbert Attard (MT)
Installation: „Wittgenstein´s Ladder“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Dirk Wagenknecht (D), Martin Saur (BE)
cinetic Installation o.T.
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
Andreas Zimmermann (D)
Photografphy: „x1“
artist portrait / curator`s statementpdf as download
