🌱 The species in Critically Extant by @soficrespo91 🌱
In Critically Extant, Sofia trained models on millions of open-source nature photos covering ~10 000 species.
First shown as some kind of Instagram exhibition, the work tests whether endangered life can slip into our daily scroll and spark "real-world" care.
The project invites us to build better feedback loops between the digital and the wild: notice, share, and act before these creatures vanish completely.
↓ Below are some of the species featured in the collection, with a few facts about each:
In “Everything’s Computer,” Anika Meier samples 5 art practitioners who are responding to genAI by building avatars, ecosystems, and autonomous models – and blowing open the conceit that art’s value should rest on its makers’ signatures.
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for the new issue of spike, i wrote about what i call the post-artist. featuring laturbo avedon, holly herndon & mat dryhurst, sofia crespo, and jon rafman.
Belatedly, a long 🧵 on our latest work, (di)atomic garden, an exploration of radiation’s mutative power, some of its history, and its afterlives in the present. The work began with our encounter with the “atomic garden,” or “gamma garden”:
Nordic Interface
The Lumen Prize, in collaboration with @kunstsilo, is proud to announce the launch of: Nordic Interface, a new initiative supporting the development of an ambitious new commission by a Nordic artist through mentorship, production support, public programming, and a site-specific commission at Kunstsilo.
Building on our long-standing partnership, the program provides selected Nordic artists with mentorship from an international network of experts, dedicated production support, and the opportunity to premiere a new work in Kunstsilo’s Silohall during The Lumen Prize Awards Ceremony weekend in November.
For the inaugural edition, we’re thrilled to announce @entangledothers as the first artists selected for the program. Their practice explores the complex entanglements between artificial intelligence and biological systems, asking how technology shapes our understanding of the more-than-human world.
More details to follow shortly.
🔗 lumenprize.org/nordic-interf…#NordicInterface#LumenPrize#EntangledOthers#Kunstsilo@feileacan_net@soficrespo91
Here are this year’s winners in each category:
@SarahMeyohas - Still Image
@soficrespo91 - Moving Image
@quayola - Innovation
@quasimondo - Experiential
@refikanadol - Honorary Career Award
@ArtOnBlockchain - Industry Award
Digital Art Awards 2026 | In partnership with PhillipsX
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Congratulations to all the winners and nominees! Your work continues to push boundaries and inspire us all. Thank you for making this ceremony a night to remember.
We are beyond grateful to everyone who joined us - our incredible artists, visionary creators and amazing community. Your passion, creativity and dedication are what make the digital art world so vibrant and inspiring.
"Driven by the real-time sampling of uranium ore, the specimens are exposed to continuous mutative forces. The planted specimens can be explored through this browser interface, acting as a safe window into this continuously growing, mutating and decaying virtual garden."
(di)atomic garden, @entangledothers, 2026
We are pleased to announce the 8 finalists for the Moving Image Category of the Second Edition of the Digital Art Awards
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@soficrespo91@ivonatau@Nicolas_Sassoon
Rebecca Allen
Defaced
Jang Yeonjeong (Forside)
Aiminath Sulthana
Irem Bugdayci
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We congratulate all selected artists and look forward to sharing their work with our global community.
Phillips Hong Kong
24 March 2026
Extremely honoured to be part of ‘Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologies’ at @DAFmoc the selection of works shown here is just incredible, thank you so much @irini_mirena for including ‘critically extant’ 🐙
(pics of ‘self-contained’ coming up soon 🧬)
🌱 The species in Critically Extant by @soficrespo91 🌱
In Critically Extant, Sofia trained models on millions of open-source nature photos covering ~10 000 species.
Where data ran thin, the images drift, sometimes recognisable, sometimes uncanny, exposing the gaps in our collective knowledge. First shown as an Instagram exhibition, the work tests whether endangered life can slip into our daily scroll and spark real-world care.
The project invites us to build better feedback loops between the digital and the wild: notice, share, and act before these creatures vanish completely.
↓ Below are some of the species featured in the collection, with a few facts about each:
2025, Revisited: Critically Extant by @soficrespo91
From material experimentation to conceptual inquiry, our 2025 projects covered a broad spectrum of approaches. Today, we reflect on the work by Sofia Crespo: Critically Extant (released May 22–June 30, 2025) a project that tests the limits of what our digital world actually contains about nature.
↓Below is a selection of artworks from the collection.