2017 Winners

Introducing our 2017 Lumen Prize Winners

Gold Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Gold Award 2017

Thijs Biersteker

Plastic Reflectic is an interactive installation that brings the plastic soup alive. The work shows people that their plastic use behaviour can influence the rapidly growing plastic soup and encourages viewers to keep plastic out of our oceans, where it can enter our foodchain and thus prevent nano plastics from entering our bodies.

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Founder’s Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Founder’s Award 2017

Nicole Ruggiero, Molly Soda & Refrakt

Slide To Expose is an augmented reality project by Nicole Ruggiero, Molly Soda, and Refrakt. The project explores digital intimacy, privacy, the concepts of life and death online, and ultimately asks how devices, particularly our phones, aid, form, and reshape our perceptions of these experiences.

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3D/Sculpture Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

3D/Sculpture Award 2017

Lien-cheng, Wang

Reading Plan is an interactive artwork with 23 automation book flipping machines. When audiences enter the exhibition room, these machines will start to turn pages automatically and read the context at the same time.

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Moving Image Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Moving Image Award 2017

Isabelle Arvers

How to live in the jungle, how to restore its humanity, how to create spaces for living and sharing together ? How to do the work of a government that shuns it, that refuses to see the urgency of the situation, that focuses instead on “reducing” the number of immigrants in Calais?

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VR/AR Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

VR/AR Award 2017

Michelle & Uri Kranot

Nothing Happens is a cinematic virtual reality experience and art installation, which question the role of the spectator, by inviting the individual to participate in an event. VR allows us to choose our perspective, allows us to become absorbed in the unique atmosphere and participate.

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Web-Based Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Web-Based Award 2017

Fabio Dartizio

The desire to stay in the sun is a web-site (www.distante.biz) It permits to select two planets and see the layout their distance draws. This clear separation is the maximum distance between two elements andat the same time also the only possible link.

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Still Image Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Still Image Award 2017

Matthias Dorfelt

The random seed used to generate each bill is based on the SHA-256 hash that uniquely identifies each block and therefore ties each generated banknote uniquely to that block. The value of each bill represents the approximate transfer volume of bitcoins of the corresponding block.

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Placemaking Special Commendation Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Placemaking Special Commendation Award 2017

David Glicksman & Moses Journey

Ad Infinitum is a kinetic sculpture that explores the relationship between discrete points and the infinite continuum between them. It is also an attempt to express pure, abstracted animation using as few elements as possible.

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Meural Student Award 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

Meural Student Award 2017

Tadej Droljc

Capillaries Capillaries is an audiovisual composition based on a non-hierarchical and hence bi-directional relationship between sound and image. Therefore the piece does not represent a visualisation of music or sonification of an image but rather emanates from an audiovisual paradigm that is based around the idea of an intertwined audiovisual interactions that I call audiovisual tangle.

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BCS A.I. Award Winner 2017
Natasha Stone Natasha Stone

BCS A.I. Award Winner 2017

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm

The artwork is an interactive audio installation utilizing artificial intelligence technology. FRANK is a real AI, programmed using the newest advancements within artificial intelligence technology (machine intelligence and deep learning). The audience can have a direct dialogue with FRANK who answers with a humanized voice.

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