DigitalArt4Climate announce competition winners at COP26

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A pan­el of thought lead­ers and blockchain vision­ar­ies from around the globe con­verged in Glas­gow, Scot­land on Nov. 11 for the Unit­ed Nations Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP26) sum­mit to announce the final­ists and win­ners of an illus­tri­ous dis­play of artis­tic entries to the DigitalArt4Climate competition.

DigitalArt4Climate is a mul­ti-faceted cryp­to cli­mate ini­tia­tive, orga­nized by IAAI GloCha in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the UN-Habi­tat youth pro­gramme, which empow­ers the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of artists to cre­ate of non­fun­gi­ble token (NFT) works inher­ent­ly focused on advo­cat­ing for cli­mate action.

Mod­er­at­ed by the CEO of The Oblique Life, Romi Sumaria, and attend­ed by Head of Meta­verse Growth at Unique Net­work, Iri­na Karagyuar, Founder of DigitalArt4Climate, Miroslav Polz­er, and Coin­tele­graph edi­tor-in-chief, Kristi­na Cornèr, among oth­ers, the pan­elists shared an array of projects and ideas for the use of clean, car­bon-effi­cient tech­nolo­gies to sup­port immi­nent envi­ron­men­tal challenges.

DigitalArt4Climate rep­re­sen­ta­tives and part­ners at the COP26 conference

Founder of GloCha, DigitalArt4Climate and esteemed COP26 host, Miroslav Polz­er, announced that the com­pe­ti­tion had received 208 entries from across 58 coun­tries, and not­ed that the artists uti­lized an array of tra­di­tion­al and tech­no­log­i­cal instru­ments and medi­ums rang­ing from dig­i­tized acrylic and mur­al paint­ings, through to arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and gen­er­a­tive art.

In addi­tion to show­cas­ing the work of the 30 final­ists through­out the COP26 sum­mit on dig­i­tal bill­boards and via the project’s web­site, DigitalArt4Climate have also part­nered with envi­ron­men­tal­ly-con­scious meta­verse space, Art­gence to cre­ate a three-dimen­sion­al and emo­tion­al­ly immer­sive vir­tu­al gallery.

The dis­tin­guished col­lec­tion is expect­ed to be indi­vid­u­al­ly auc­tioned off on June 5th 2022, rec­og­nized glob­al­ly as World Envi­ron­ment Day, in sup­port of the sev­en­teen UN Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals and Agen­da 2030.

Broad­cast­ing a philo­soph­i­cal vision on how artis­tic recog­ni­tion can allow us to acknowl­edge uni­ver­sal chal­lenges, Miroslav Polz­er stated:

“We believe that through the process of appre­ci­at­ing art we wit­ness the strug­gles and the bril­liance of human­i­ty, and through the process of cre­at­ing art we sur­ren­der to the bril­liance with­in ourselves.”

The four com­pe­ti­tion win­ners were decid­ed by the results of an online pub­lic vote, while the com­pe­ti­tion’s spe­cial win­ner slot was select­ed by mem­bers of the consortium.

First prize was award­ed to Fil­ipino dig­i­tal eco­log­i­cal artist, Bricx Mar­tillo Dumas, for his piece titled Nexus, a sor­row­ing depic­tion of human hand hold­ing a plas­tic bag con­tain­ing a blue-coloured drink and straw, in addi­tion to a cig­a­rette whose smoke floats into the atmos­phere as tiny leaves.

Bricx Mar­tillo Dumas’ Nexus (Philip­pines) — 1st Place

Mar­tillo spoke pas­sion­ate­ly (2:55 time­stamp) about the impor­tance of col­lec­tive own­er­ship in pur­su­ing cli­mate action, cit­ing his life-chang­ing expe­ri­ence of Typhoon Haiyan in Novem­ber 2013 in his home-town in the Philip­pines as the fun­da­men­tal rea­son for his envi­ron­men­tal impe­tus behind cli­mate action.

Sec­ond place in the com­pe­ti­tion was award­ed three-ways to Iran­ian artist, Amir Kari­mi for Every Sec­ond Lake, French artist, Eka­te­ri­na Lestienne’s for The Wild­fire, and Unit­ed States artist, Chloé Haj­jar for Alle­go­ry of Survival.

Final­ly, the competition’s spe­cial award, the soli­tary choice by the con­sor­tium, was grant­ed to Math­are Roots and the Graf­fi­ti Girls from Mlan­go Kub­wa for their mur­al art­work, Team Spir­it in Kenya.

Sec­ond placed artist, Lesti­enne shared vivid insights to the audi­ence into the visu­al ide­ol­o­gy of her piece.

“My lay­ered, detailed, tex­tured dig­i­tal col­lage refers to the mul­ti­di­men­sion­al soul of the world and can be inter­pret­ed as our pre­cious and beau­ti­ful plan­et being ripped to peace by extreme cli­mate events.”

Eka­te­ri­na Lestienne’s The Wild­fire (France) — 2nd Place

Lat­er in the con­fer­ence, the Head of Meta­verse Growth at Unique Net­work, Iri­na Karagyuar, spoke pro­fi­cient­ly about the impor­tance of gal­va­niz­ing human­i­ty as a col­lec­tive force to cul­ti­vate a sus­tain­able and tech­no­log­i­cal­ly dynam­ic ecosys­tem for the next generation:

“We have inher­it­ed incred­i­ble lega­cies from our com­mon ances­tors. Let’s become the ances­tors that next gen­er­a­tions will be proud of. Let’s be pas­sion­ate, vul­ner­a­ble and rebel for life. Let’s look deeply at entire­ly new ways and tools to build a bet­ter world. Let our lives doc­u­ment human­i­ty’s impact on the planet.”

Unique Net­work, a parachain project in the Kusama and Polka­dot ecosys­tem, was select­ed by the Unit­ed Nations to facil­i­tate a NFT cli­mate ini­tia­tive back in August 2021 as report­ed by Cointelegraph.

By vis­it­ing the DigitalArt4Climate web­site, users can now claim an envi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly free NFT asset titled Glob­al Angel. The art­work, which has been facil­i­tat­ed by Unique Net­work and built upon Polka­dot Relay Chain, sig­ni­fies a mes­sage of uni­fi­ca­tion between our phys­i­cal and dig­i­tal worlds.

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