“Unprecedented fish-ionary”: these graduates win the Sieger White Encouragement Award 2025
- Design
- ArtEZ Prizewinner
During ArtEZ finals in Arnhem, Joy J.M. Chung (Graphic Design) and Kaan Orkan Pişkin (Design Art Technology) received the Sieger White Encouragement Award on 4 July. The award consists of two grants of €5,000 each, to be used freely for further artistic development.
Data, technology and environment
The jury included Els Drummen (curator at CODA Apeldoorn), Marie Reintjes (artist and winner of the 2024 Sieger White Award), and Stijn Geutjes (curator at the Liemers Museum and secretary of the Sieger White Foundation). They spoke with and reviewed the work of many promising young talents. Their assessment focused on originality, imagination, concept, presentation and craftsmanship.
Joy Chung and Kaan Orkan Pişkin stood out. Both draw inspiration from fleeting natural phenomena. And explore the relationship between data, technology and the world around us. Each in their own unique way.
Goldfish as encryption key
Kaan Orkan Pişkin raises an urgent question: how safe is encryption today? His installation searches for an alternative. Not in technology, but in nature. The movements of goldfish are recorded live and used as a unique encryption system. Unpredictable. Uncrackable. His work touches on themes like cyber security, power structures and ecology. It invites reflection on control and balance. Are we moving towards a new harmony between humans, technology and nature? Or is this yet another form of domination? The jury had no doubt: “a true fish-ionary.”
Catching the wind
Joy Chung works with weather station data, transforming it into graphic prints on paper. Visitors can create their own unique print, visualising the wind at that very moment. Each work becomes a reflection of the now. Science, sensation and craft merge into a poetic result.
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