
2019 Winners
Introducing our 2019 Lumen Prize Winners

Gold Award Winner 2019
Refik Anadol
“Melting Memories” is a series of digital artworks that explore the materiality of remembering by offering new insights into the representational possibilities emerging from the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art.

Photomonitor Student Award Winner 2019
Cassie Suche
In the development of this piece, markers, pens and brushes were repeatedly destroyed by the rigorous and repetitive physical impact of the machinery involved. The works provided a literal documentations of the physical limitations of tools, showing where they violently collided with the paper, and where they reached the end of their functional capabilities.

People's Choice Award Award Winner 2019
Stefan Gant
‘Phygital Palimpsest’ results from an interdisciplinary exchange between fields of contemporary drawing practice, archaeology and significantly an interplay and fusion with digital archaeological spatial technologies.

The Rapoport Award for Women in Art & Tech Award Winner 2019
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Dr Christina Agapakis/Ginkgo Bioworks & Sissel Tolaas
Could we ever again smell flowers driven to extinction by humans? Resurrecting the Sublime is an ongoing collaboration between artist Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, a team at biotechnology company Ginkgo Bioworks led by Creative Director Dr. Christina Agapakis, and smell researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas, with the support of IFF Inc.

XR Award Winner 2019
Kristina Buozyte & Vitalijus Zukas
Trail of Angels is a double tribute to the precursor of multimedia art, and one of the greatest pioneers of all abstract art in Europe – the most outstanding Lithuanian creator, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, who broke boundaries between different art forms in order to create a whole new world based on his own cosmogony.

3D/Interactive Award Winner 2019
Maja Petric
The immersive experience emulates constellation in which every person becomes one among the stars. The natural beauty of the universe is evoked to reveal connections between us and the rest of the world that often stay hidden in the plain sight.

BCS A.I. Award Winner 2019
Dave Murray-Rust & Rocio von Jungenfeld
ichtsuchende is an interactive installation, built using a society of biologically inspired, robotic creatures who exchange light as a source of energy and as a means of communication.

Still Image Award Winner 2019
Sougwen Chung
Drawing Operations (Duet) is a performance centered on a drawing collaboration between human and machine.
In this duet, Sougwen and Drawing Operations Units: Generation 1&2 create an improvised drawing corresponding to 3 themes, tracing a narrative of human and machine; Mimicry, Memory and Future Speculations.

Moving Image Award 2019
Cassie McQuater
“Love Birds, Night Birds, Devil-Birds” is a nonlinear fairy tale taking the form of an interactive video game installation, and begins as a re-imagining of the surrealist story “The Debutante” by artist Leonora Carrington, in which a young woman exchanges places with a hyena, masked in a suit of human skin, for her societal debut.