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There were 208 artworks from over 58 countries entered in the Digital Art 4 Climate competition. The youngest artist was 10 years old. The digital artist Bricx Martillo Dumas, aka Shrimppaste, who hails from the Philippines, has been declared the winner of the DigitalArt4Climate art competition, with his piece Nexus. Dumas’ artwork depicts a hand holding a blue-colored drink in a plastic bag with a straw, and a cigarette whose smoke evaporates into tiny leaves. Out of over two hundred who submitted from 58 countries, Dumas is the only finalist from Southeast Asia. Dumas will be awarded 1500 euros ($1,721) for winning the competition.
The second place winners include Amir Karimi’s Every Second: Lake (Iran), Ekaterina Lestienne’s The Wildfire (France), and Chloe Hajjar’s Allegory of Survival (USA). Each of these runner-ups will receive $574.
Unique Network is taking a leading role in the blockchain sustainability space by developing sustainable NFTs that do not use carbon-intensive networks like Ethereum.
“We are excited to show that the ethos of distributed ledger technologies and open data can be used to support change agents to be more empowered in identifying climate actions they can make,” said Alexander Mitrovich, CEO of Unique Network.
“Unique Network is extremely proud to be collaborating with these key United Nations initiatives, the global body for challenging paradigms and ensuring equitability, for a just transition. We believe that the future of human expression will be through NFTs, and we are dedicated to showing the whole world how it can unite our disparate communities in the fight to save our planet.”
“We enable this technology to be accessible and empower creators to use these advanced tools. Technology is here to support the art and creativity. We will make sure to deliver the best possible innovation in this space” Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network.
The United Nations announced 2021 as the Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development to recognize the value of creativity as a powerful resource for sustainable development and climate action.
Unique Network is an infrastructure for the next generation of NFTs. The first NFT chain for Kusama and Polkadot, Unique Network offers developers independence from high network transaction fees, dense upgrades, and siloed NFTs. The Unique Network team has partnered with numerous NFT projects in order to deepen the integrations needed to expand NFT use cases and usability, like Art Curator Grid, XP Network, UN-Habitat, and SupraOracles. Unique Network was responsible for Polkadot’s first NFTs, Substrapunks.
About DigitalArt4Climate
DigitalArt4Climate is a multi-stakeholder partnership initiative which uses blockchain technology to turn art into digital assets or NFTs, which can be collected and traded, thus opening up a socio-technological innovation space which helps to unlock extraordinary potential for resource mobilization and climate empowerment, which is being used to enable realization of youth focused ACE programs of IAAI GloCha and UN Habitat. https://digitalart4climate.space/
Source: https://www.blockleaders.io/un-cop26-digitalart4climate-winners-announced/
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