ASM ArtScience™ Prize 2020
ASM ArtScience™ Prize 2025
ASM ArtScience™ Prize 2020
ASM ArtScience™ Prize 2025
The ArtScience Prize 2022, organized by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia and the Maybank Foundation, showcases innovative works addressing global environmental and societal challenges through the theme "ArtScience Lens on Planetary Health." Held from June 19 to July 7, 2023, at Balai Seni Maybank, Kuala Lumpur, the exhibition highlights the vital connection between art and science in promoting biodiversity, climate change awareness, and sustainable development. Participants created impactful works to inspire sustainable action, evaluated by a diverse panel of experts.
The winners include:
- ASM ArtScience™ Prize 2022: Dr. Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa, Dr. Rohimah Mohamud, and Dr. Lidawani Lambuk for their artwork “The Crown,” which won RM20,000, a certificate, and a residency attachment.
- Rising Star Award: Andrialis Abdul Rahman, Ts Ellyana Mohd Muslim Tan, and Siti Norfatulhana Ishak for “Woman in Black and White,” receiving RM10,000, a certificate, and a residency attachment.
- People’s Choice Award: “Boxxie-Head” by Ts Dr Verly Veto Vermol, Zuraidy Abd Rahim, and Khairul Nizan Mohd Aris, which earned RM5,000 and a certificate.
February 18, 2025
The team behind Khalifah are Syafiq Alia’m (contemporary artist), Darween Reza (M&E engineer) and Hilman Nordin (software developer). The team has known each other since 2020 and collaborated on several projects. They aim to converge art and technology in this work by combining the different skillsets from each contributing member and create something striking and meaningful.
February 18, 2025
“Garden of Light” is conceptually a state-of-the-art, high-tech architecture with minimal maintenance and off-grid, solar-powered mechanical equipment (a water pump) aquaponics structure. Aquaponics can be a promising approach to creating more resilient and accessible food systems in urban and suburban communities by bringing gardens closer to the community. Aquaponics, a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, can provide nutritious and complete food in a recirculating environment.
February 18, 2025
Colours can significantly impact our emotions, thoughts, and even physical responses. The colours in the form of dyes are used in many industries such as textile, pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, paint, etc.
February 18, 2025
The Bees demonstrate well-rounded behaviour with “The Crown” framework: Core, Relevant, Organise, Winning mindset, and Networking. However, due to anthropogenic activities such as deforestation and pollution, the population of bees, including the stingless bees, is affected and facing challenges. To address the depopulation of stingless bees, Dr Mohd Zulkifli Mustafa and his team at USM initiated the Kelulunomic project which aims to provide institutional protections and enhance their habitat by promoting beekeeping using the MUSTAFA-Hive.
February 18, 2025
“Boxes of Seasons” is a travelling photography exhibition on recyclable boxes. Box symbolises hidden treasures; in this case, ‘Piama‘, the traditional oral calendar of the Northerners of Peninsular Malaysia, is our passing along wisdom and cultural heritage.
February 18, 2025
“Marble Eclipse @ Gerhana Guli” features a terrarium in a glass marble floating in space, with plants representing life and a stone-like texture below symbolising soil. The glass marble represents the barrier between a harsh galactic environment and a haven for life, emphasising the delicate balance between beauty and fragility. Lighting and texture highlight the details and materials, while a solar eclipse situation creates contrast and drama. This visual piece conveys the significance of environmental sustainability and the need to balance nature’s forces and human progress. It reminds us of the fragility of life on our planet and the importance of maintaining a healthy planetary ecosystem. This piece includes Augmented Reality for a more immersive experience.
February 18, 2025
The production of palm leaves pots is aligned with the concept of waste to wealth. The idea of the “Development of Palm Leaves Pot” was one of the ways to reduce organic waste and overcome pollution problems. The novelty of this product is that the pot is produced without the need for a heat press and uses only two plastic pots of different diameters as the moulds. While growing, the plants can absorb some nutrients from the pot itself.
February 18, 2025
“Perennial Symbiosis” is a multimedia eco-art installation that inspires a re-envisioned world of coexistence through the beauty of the knowledge that all species on earth, organism, and machine alike, are interconnected. The artwork also touches on ecocritical poetry that urges the audience to reflect on their behaviour and relationship with nature. Perennial is defined as lasting or existing for an infinite amount of time, and Symbiosis means living together in the close union of two (or more) dissimilar organisms.
February 18, 2025
Feeling Freedom is an emotion, an expression of going beyond boundaries, unrestrained by convention. Without Limits.
This year’s theme, Planetary Health, highlights the essential connection between art, imagination, and healing. Movement-based creative expressions like drawing and painting offer healing and therapeutic advantages, particularly for those with limited mobility. “With every stroke on the canvas, I feel lighter and liberated. As the image grows on paper, I see my dreams transforming into reality.
February 18, 2025
“Four-legged Malaysian Treasures” is an illustration artwork inspired by Malaysian wildlife. In this artwork, the artist focuses on animals not highlighted in mainstream media. Most of the subjects are animals that are endangered and extinct. The concept of the drawings is playful and childlike, symbolising the artist’s curiosity when seeing and learning about the animal.
February 14, 2025
“Aquascape” is a compilation of cyanotypes of native and invasive plant species. Amongst the species made as subjects are Potamogeton crispus, Myriophyllum aquaticum and Myriophyllum spicatum. These plants are invasive and may be a threat to the habitat. This artwork was aimed to highlight the danger of introducing non-indigenous species to a new habitat.
February 14, 2025
“Save our Nasi Lemak” is a visual art centred on the effect of climate crisis on the food supply. The climate crisis is an urgent issue that requires attention from society. However, the artist realised that it is challenging to bring an understanding of the climate crisis to the public on an individual level.
February 14, 2025
“Site-specific Installation-Coral Garden” is a visual presentation of natural reef habitats built using natural resources such as rocks, broken shells, and pH-neutral high-grade cement. This artwork is designed to mimic the natural reef habitat and help marine ecology. This site-specific installation aims to create public awareness of the importance of sustainable development within life below water and contribute to sustaining the ecosystem of living things and inspire further research practices for sustainable development in the field of art.
February 14, 2025
“Woman in Black and White” is a visual art project focusing on the philosophical perspective of Black and White Photography Experimental in a Darkroom Science Laboratory. The visual artwork produced is aimed at highlighting nature and climate change issues, with images produced by three artists who are also photography lecturers. The project uses expired black and white material and manual processes such as Single Lens Reflex (SLR), Film Development, Silver Gelatin Image Print and digital prints.
February 14, 2025
“Connecting the Dots” is a visual art portraying plastic waste found on beaches along Kuala Langat Coastline. This artwork aims to bring awareness to the public about the severity of plastic pollution in Malaysia and around the globe. Plastic pollution is a threat to planetary health, and it affects human health, biodiversity and ecosystems.
February 14, 2025
“Rags & Ragas” is a collection of environmental poems that discuss the themes on the degradation of our planet through deforestation, carbon emissions, pollution of air & water, lop-sided development, and political mismanagement. The poems are printed on reconstituted, as distinct from recycled paper. Free from bleach or dye, this unique material has been reconstituted from gunny sacks, rope, paddy husk, cigarette packs, discarded cardboard boxes & brown paper bags. It was initially used for city council bus tickets in the 50s.
February 14, 2025
“I Belong to the Forest” is a picture book that tells a story about a sun bear’s cub who was taken from its mother and sold as a pet at the illegal market. The cub, later, underwent rehabilitation and returned to the wild.
February 14, 2025
“A Fragile Thing Called Man” is an abstract concept of life and death through the banal details, silent landscapes, and curious obsessions observed daily. This artwork uses a unique camera technique to create the toy-like miniaturisation of the city, making the infrastructure appear incredibly fragile.
February 14, 2025
“Momentum Cinta” is a physics-inspired song that demonstrates physics formulas commonly taught at high school. In the animation, the plot revolves around a man running to do a critical task symbolising how a small act can significantly impact preserving the planet’s health. The animation was created using Blender.
February 14, 2025
Healing Extensions for Planetary Health - ‘Inner Healing of the People helps in the External Healing of the World.’
This art project is about constructing a creative support system for wheelchair bound people with the help of visuals and sounds. This is an interactive moving art project focusing on mental well-being that involves healing with the help of the user’s imagination. This inclusive artwork also reaches out to non-wheelchair users, with it being a tangible work, it even interacts with the visually impaired. Thus, it connects people from different walks of life and makes them more sensitive, responsive, and kind to the earth.
February 14, 2025
“The Diary of a Mountain Tree” is an animation inspired by illegal logging driven by the weak law enforcement and a lack of awareness and empathy. This animation aimed to raise awareness in society about the importance of forest conservation and hopes to inspire a sense of love for our forest and to do our best to protect it from any threat.
February 14, 2025
This art project has been created by taking autocorrelation functions of the ThueMorse sequence and putting its values in a table, assigning colours to each value on the table, and generating images demonstrating how mathematics can reveal the hidden beauty of nature.
June 19, 2024
“Boxxie-Head” is a cardboard artwork commemorating the loss of species of the Sumatran rhino that once roamed the foothills and rainforests in Asia. The species was offi cially declared extinct in the wild of Malaysia in August 2015.