Simone C Niquille
The jury awards one of two Pax Art Awards for emerging media-art talent to Simone C. Niquille (*1987 in Zug, CH). The Swiss artist’s work unfolds as a playfully critical examination of the digital tools that increasingly shape our physical world, exploring the assumptions, biases and other abstractions that flow into the data sets, which enable these tools to function. Niquille investigates, as she puts it, “the digitisation of biomass” – i.e. how the digital realm is increasingly taking direct effect on our spatial being and our physical selves.