Each year we invite a digital artist to contribute a body of work that informs the visual identity of the award, and is showcased throughout our website, social media, and other promotional materials. Learn more about the 2025 Featured Artist below.
Adrienne Matheuszik, Caldera (2025)
A geothermal energy plant is retrofitted into an exclusive spa in the base of a volcano. The dangerous environment of a lava pool is surrounded by the signage typical of a swimming pool. A derelict industrial boiler room becomes a sauna with a hot tub. Caldera exposes the extractive processes required to create luxury experiences for tourism and the wellness industry, bringing to the forefront that which is purposely hidden from western society that benefits most from these exploitative systems.
Adrienne Matheuszik is a mixed Jamaican & settler-canadian interdisciplinary artist in Toronto. Adrienne has had unsupervised access to the internet since she was nine years old. She uses computers to make art — video, physical computing, creative coding & 3D design — which usually result in interactive installations, augmented and virtual reality, short film and video, and game art. Adrienne’s work explores ideas of representation & identity online and IRL. She is interested in speculative futures and using sci-fi to examine the possibility of the post-colonial.