The Paris-based German artist and researcher Dana Fiona Armour has been awarded the first Sigg Art Prize for art integrating artificial intelligence (AI). Armour received the €10,000 prize for Alvinella Ophis (2024)—an interdisciplinary 3D-animated video installation exploring the interplay between biotechnology, artificial intelligence and contemporary art—in a ceremony at Asprey Studio, in central London.
The Sigg Art Prize is presented by the Sigg Art Foundation, which was founded by the Swiss tech entrepreneur and art collector Pierre Sigg and has held artist residences at his family estate at Le Castellet, near Toulon, in the south of France, in Greece and at AlUla in Saudi Arabia. The foundation says on social media that it sees AI as “a transformative force, as profound as the emergence of photography during the industrial revolution”, something that is “reshaping the representation of reality, the construction of memory, traditional practices and language innovation on a global scale”.
