Aesthetics. Innovation. Consistency. These were the three criteria that guided the AI Creative Hackathon jury in selecting the winning entries. But there is always something that moves off the scale. Off the grid. And that deserves to be seen, celebrated, amplified.
That’s why the special mentions were created: to honor those who not only created an interesting project, but opened up imaginaries, displaced narrative structures, turned algorithms into visions.
Three projects. Three authors or collectives. Three awards that represent what drives us to do what we do every day: explore radical futures to build present.
🔸 SLIME MACHINE by Matilde Sartori
🧠 Prize for algorithmic experimentation + biopolitical storytelling
An interactive light installation inspired by slime mold-a primitive, collective organism-that moves thanks to LEDs and open source algorithms.
The light pulses like a living being, creating networks of connections in the dark.
It is a new body, made of electricity, that questions us about the possibility of a decentralized mind.
It is a biopolitical and poetic metaphor at the same time, inviting us to reconsider the concept of intelligence.
🔸 MILAN RAVE SYSTEM by Carlo Moschettoni and Marco Vivaldi
💥 Award for the narrative and creative use of AI in the reuse of public spaces
What happens if we turn subway lines into a sound map for urban nightlife?
Thus Underground Milano was born: a conceptual video where every line is a beat, every stop is a drop, every ride is a collective dance.
The project is an act of creative reappropriation of public space, which from a functional medium becomes a symbolic and ritual space.
🔸 LUMENSPACE by Nikolai Abramov
🌌 Award for ecological and radical approach to virtual sociality.
“LumenSpace” is a 3D environment generated with Gaussian Splatting techniques, where light is the primary language.
A suspended space where reality and digital merge into a dynamic nightscape.
LumenSpace is not just a virtual environment: it is an invitation to rethink how we celebrate, meet, and create community.
In a time when sociality is increasingly mediated by screens, this project suggests an alternative way: ethereal, ecological, symbolic
💡 Why do we reward the unexpected?
💡 Why do we reward the unexpected?In our work at Futureberry, we know that true innovation comes when we allow ourselves to step outside the box.
During the AI Creative Hackathon, we saw dozens of brilliant projects, but these three reminded us that the value of art is not only aesthetic, but also conceptual, social, transformative.
This is the energy we want to unleash. This is the community we are building.