NRW Künstlerinnenpreis 2022
Early 2021 I was among those approached by the Frauenkulturbüro (Women’s Culture Bureau) of the German state NordRhein Westfalen to put forward a possible winner for their annual prize for best female artist coming up in 2022. That year the focus would be on women artists working in the field of digital art. Having worked just recently with Dutch artist Joan Heemskerk on her groundbreaking quantum computer piece Q&Q(liza), which she produced for Rhizome’s 7X7 exhibition in Norway but was shown as try out at GOGBOT, choosing her was a no-brainer. The jury of the prize agreed with me, and in April 2022 Joan Heemskerk received her award via an obligatory online ceremony for which I gave the eulogy speech. I also was one of the writers for the Frauenkulturbüro blog about the prize and wrote an article on how to evaluate digital art. The picture here shows a screenshot of Heemskerk's Q&Q(liza).