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CONTACT ATTEMPT – Winners and Finalists

Winners: Arseniy Tyurin / Alisa Voronina – Frederik de Wilde – Fairlix

The winners of the CONTACT ATTEMPT open call for generative artists from all over the world were announced today at a special event in the Hamburg Planetarium. The Open Call, initiated by the art meets science – Foundation Herbert W. Franke, had attracted 155 participants from 46 countries. Find here all awarded finalists and Special Awards.

Two multimedia works that scored the same number of points in the jury assessment were awarded first prize.

Arseniy Tyurin, Alisa Voronina (Russia) with INBOX: 1
Frederik de Wilde (Belgium) with It’s lonely to be green – The Escape.

Fairlix (Germany) with REPLY

Arsenij and Alisa: INBOX: 1 (multimedia – fulldome)
Frederik: It’s lonlely to be green (multimedia)
Fairlix: Reply (multimedia – fulldome)

These awards were given out of competition from the foundation because the works were not submitted in time and so could not be implemented in the finalist section.

Music Non Stop – Sounds of 1679 multimedia – fulldome)
Gilbert Sinnott / Barry Lynn – Arecibo Cycles (multimedia)
OxG – Blockchain Concept ‘Contact’
strayltd & plutonic mind – Hello Herbert (multimedia – fulldome)
Nicu P- ASTR1V0X (multimedia – fulldome)
Blvckl!ght – Contact Attempt (multimedia)
Agoston Nagy – FUJI (multimedia – fulldome)

Bård Ionson – Arecibo Return (multimedia)
Francesco Mancori – HELP!, an Interstellar Radio Message (multimedia – fulldome)
Loackme – base23 (multimedia)
Mona Freudenreich – To Drop A Stone Into Water (audio)
Roland Biermann – Greetings To The Universe (multimedia work + performance concept)
Arian  – Perses and the Blackbody (Video) no right for publication
Karolina Mitko – Adam with Eve after 50 years. (still images)
Rati Baramadze – Echoes of Unknown (Self-generated AI Music Systems – audio)
Martín  – Arecibo message arriving at a galactic center (still images)
Marcel Moonen – Interference SETI (2024) (multimedia)
Motus Art – Factorisation Counting Machine (video)
Darina Dash – Symbiotic Code: Human-AI Co-Creation (multimedia)
Anomalit  – First contact (multimedia)
typo.eth – Fifty Lightyears (still images)
Park Matter – 31:59 sound (object)
Element Lee – Communication (still images)
Arefeh Ahmadi – I feel (multimedia)
Petra – Ecos de Luz Cósmica (multimedia)

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan – The Quest for Extraterrestrial Contact (still images)

Roni Kaufman – Message (video)
arstec – Extraterrestrial Answer (multimedia)
Muriel Lherm  – Echoes of the Unknown: A Celestial Encounter (multimedia)
Bruce Morrow – Contact: Guyana (still images)
Mpozzecco – Geometric Progression (video)
Ivaylo Bozhinov – In This World (still images)
A special foundation’s recommendation for a non-finalist: hOrO mO X

Seth Shostak – radioastronomer, wolrdwide known author and Senior Scientist of SETI-Institute in the USA
Anika Meier – curator and publicist, spezialised in generative art
Thomas Kraupe – astrophysician undformer long-time President der International Planetarium Society
Bjoern Wirtjes – PLANET KA and co-initiator of the open call
Susanne PaechFoundation Herbert W. Franke und science writer