S+T+ARTS PRIZE ’24 – Honorary Mention
The Echinoidea Future – Adriatic Sensing by Robertina Šebjanič
https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/en/echinoidea-future/
Jury Statement:
While the majority of Europeans have no direct experience with the oceans and seas, ocean life knows far more about us than we do about it. According to scientific studies, there is an understanding that humans are having an extremely negative impact on the oceans, from direct sound and chemical pollution to indirect influence through climate change. While some of these insights stem from the use of organisms such as sea urchins as pollution indicators, they primarily manifest as scientific data too abstract for the general public. The Echinoidea Future – Adriatic Sensing project was developed even further in the STARTS4Water collaboration between the artist, ecologists, cultural organizations, and sea urchins—not as bioindicators but as actual commentators. Such collaboration overcame anthropocentric and domain-based research practices and brings the agency of an organism that inhabits a human-impacted environment directly to the public. Artwork, therefore, provides not only a medium for sea urchins to tell their story, but is an actual catalyst for our environmental empathy, which is an essential element of future environmental literacy.
Falling Walls 2024 (finalist)
https://falling-walls.com/science-summit/finalists
Re:Humanism 2023 (top 10 projects)
https://www.re-humanism.com/artprize/sparks-and-frictions/
Falling Walls 2021 – winner of Falling Walls in the Art and Science category
https://falling-walls.com/shortlist-science-breakthroughs-year-2021 video
Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica 2016,
Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification by Robertina Šebjanič
https://webarchive.ars.electronica.art/festival/2016/radicalatoms/en/index.html%3Fp=3048.html
