The FutureEverything Award 2010

The Winner of the inaugural FutureEverything Award is The EyeWriter

The EyeWriter has been voted as the winner of our first Award.

Our Director, Drew Hemment, comments: ‘We were delighted with the high calibre and diversity of submissions for the debut FutureEverything Award, this year’s winner demonstrates extraordinary creativity, imagination and ingenuity.’

The EyeWriter was chosen as the winner following a rigorous jury process and an online vote by the global FutureEverything community of artists and participants of the past 15 years. The EyeWriter beat the two other shortlisted projects: Open_Sailing and Amphibious Architecture by a fraction.

The Jury 2010

The shortlist was selected by an international jury, who chose three projects from a longlist of twenty, taken from over 1,000 submissions and nominations.

Thanks to the International Jury who selected the final shortlist of 3 candidates.

Maria Balshaw
Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Steve Dietz
Artistic Director of 01SJ Biennial and Executive Director of Northern Lights

Colin Fallows
Professor of Sound and Visual Arts, Liverpool John Moores University,
Board of Directors, FutureEverything

Gunalan Nadarajan
Director of ISEA Singapore & Vice Provost at MICA

Thanks to Christiane Paul.

The Voting Process 2010

The winner was decided by an open vote by the FutureEverything Community, the world wide community of FutureEverything artists and participants from the past 15 years. The 3 shortlisted projects were presented on our site for the community to vote on.

The voting closed on Friday 5 March, 2010.

Winner: The Eyewriter

The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS, and other degenerative neuromuscular diseases, with creative technologies. The EyeWriter itself is a pair of low-cost eye- tracking glasses & custom software that allow artists and graffiti writers with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

Runner Up: Amphibious Architecture

A project by the Environmental Health Clinic at New York University and the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Commissioned for Toward the Sentient City, an exhibition by the Architectural League of New York.

Runner Up: Open_Sailing

Open_Sailing is an international community trying to develop the International_Ocean_Station as an open-source project, developing hardware and software to enable intelligent human activities at sea. We are a constantly growing, multidisciplinary, international team of people designing and engineering the prototype that is being built now in the UK, France and Morocco under the mentoring of numerous experts.

Longlist of Nominations for 2010

View the long-list of nominations for the FutureEverything Award which was sent to our International Jury, so that they could select a shortlist of three outstanding projects.

View the list here.