The Lumen Prize is an international award which celebrates art created with technology, especially digital art.

Overview

The prize was founded by Carla Rapoport in 2012, The Lumen Prize has visited more than ten cities around the world including Amsterdam, Athens, Hong Kong,

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and Shanghai. Through its parent company Lumen Art Projects, which promotes the work of longlisted, shortlisted and winning artists, Lumen has collaborated with the

Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhi ...

, Computer Arts Society and the

EVA London The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conferences (EVA Conferences for short, aka Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond) are a series of international interdisciplinary conferences mainly in Europe, but also elsewhere in the wor ...

Conferences as well as the Tate, Photomonitor, Goldsmiths, University of London, Eureka! ( Halifax), the

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, IBM UK, the Royal College of Art (London), CYLAND Media Lab ( Saint Petersburg), etc. Since its launch, the Lumen Prize has given away more than $80,000 in prize money and staged over 45 exhibitions globally.

Prize winners

Past Lumen Prize Gold Award winners include artists

Refik Anadol Refik Anadol (born 1985) is a Turkish-American new media artist and designer. His projects consist of data-driven machine learning algorithms that create abstract, dream-like environments. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Early life and educati ...

Andy Lomas Andy Lomas (born 1967 in Welwyn Garden City, England) is a British artist with a mathematical background, formerly a television and film CG supervisor and more recently a contemporary digital artist, with a special interest in morphogenesis us ...

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and Mario Klingemann. The 2019 shortlist was profiled by SeditionArt.Lumen Prize Shortlist 2019
SeditionArt, 4 September 2019. ;2020 winners * Lumen Prize Gold Award: La Victoria by

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* Moving Image Award: Compressed Cinema by Casey Reas * Still Image Award: Terram in Aspectu by

Liliana Farber Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ...

* 3D Interactive Award: Hertzian Landscapes by

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* XR Award:(Un)Balanced by Elyne Legarnisson * Global South Award: Cosmos Within Us by

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* Nordic Award: Deux Mille by Søren Krag * BCS AI Award: Helin by Christian Mio Loclair * Photomonitor Student Prize: Racing Thoughts by Liu Wa ;2019 winners * Lumen Prize Gold Award: Melting Memories by

* Moving Image Award: Love Birds, Night Birds, Devil Birds by Cassie McQuater * Still Image Award: Drawing Operations by Sougwen Chung * BCS AI Award: Lichtsuchende by Dave Murray-Rust and Rocio von Jungenfeld * 3D/Interactive Award: We Are All Made of Light by Maja Pétric * XR Award: Trail of Angels by

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& Vitalijus Zukas * People’s Choice Award: Phygital Palimpest by Stefan Gant * Photomonitor Student Award: A Capricious Pathway by Cassie Suche * Rapoport Award for Women in Art and Tech: Resurrecting the Sublime, 2019 by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Dr. Christina Agapakis/Gingo Bioworks, and Sissel Tolaas ;2018 winners * Lumen Prize Gold Award: The Butcher’s Son by Mario Klingemann (Germany) * Moving Image Award: Avyakrta: The Unanswered Questions by Sungjae Lee (South Korea) * 3D/Interactive Award: Fidgety (In between up and down) by GayBird (Hong Kong) * AR/VR Award: Tree by New Reality Company (UK) * Still Image Award: Overload (Consequence) by

Mark Lyons Mark Steven Lyons (born July 4, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Elitzur Ashkelon of the Israeli National League. He played college basketball for Xavier and Arizona before playing professionally in France, Croatia, Is ...

(UK) * Rapoport Award for Women in Digital Art: In Defence of Industry by Felicity Hammond (UK) * People’s Choice Award: Aerobanquets RMX by Mattia Caselegno (Italy, based in USA) with Flavio Gignoni Cartestia (food art), Mattheu Cherubini (coding), Martux_M (audio), Fito Segrera (tech assistance) * BCS Artificial Intelligence Award: Degenerative Cultures Cesar & Lois An artwork by Cesar Baio and The League of Imaginary Scientists (Lois). Contributors: Scott Morgans (biologist) * Meural Student Prize: The Punishment of Tantalus by Ziwei Wu (China)

References

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External links

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