2023 Winners
Introducing our 2023 Lumen Prize Winners
Gold Award Winner 2023
CNDSD and IVAN ABREU
AUTOCONSTRUCCION is a live coded audiovisual concert and a video game animation executed by algorithms in real time. The AV concert narrates with fictions of speculative architecture, the phenomenon of informal housing.
Crypto Art Award Winner 2023
Egor Kraft
Proof of War came about as a series of technical and tactical proposals aimed to address common tactics of misinformation and propaganda at the core of ongoing warfare, in particular its infowar front. A series is presented via web3 software and hardware prototypes.
Student Award Winner 2023
UchanSun
Hyborg Agency is an interactive art installation that features an immersive online forest linked with a discord(online communication platform) community. This is a parallel world for AI agents driven by large language models.
BCS Futures Award Winner 2023
Gaëtan Robillard
Critical Climate Machine is a project that quantifies and reveals the mechanisms of misinformation on global warming. Involving data sculpture and sound, the installation explores both techno-cognition and digital mediation frameworks for the climate, opening up to deliberation.
Moving Image Award Winner 2023
Nouf Aljowaysir
Ana Min Wein (Where Am I From?) is a short film and visual diary that constructs my genealogical journey using two different voices, my own and an AI ‘narrator'.
HUA Award 華艺数奖 Winner 2023
Rhett Tsai (Yuxiao CAI)
How Deep Is the Dark Water? is an experimental game that imagines a cross-strait war. The player, guided by a fleeing man, slowly wanders through memories and visions constructed by the context of the war and individual experiences.
Nordic Award Winner 2023
Wang & Söderström
Nest of You is an interactive installation that deploys real-time computer vision and data harvesting to build a cybebenest for a speculative digital insectoid that thrives upon information. Aiming to embody what data mining feels like in our rapidly changing phygital world.
Still Image Award Winner 2023
Rosa Menkman
Created in response to the 2023 Glitch-Ism Sotheby's auction, the work is a combination of 2 older works: Vernacular of File Formats & DCT. The hidden message reads: The true value of a work of art extends beyond its market, enwrapping both its cultural and historic significance.
Metaversal Generative Art Award Winner 2023
Operator
Human Unreadable is a three-act, embodied generative artwork hiding the human body in plain sight (on-chain). Bringing together choreography, blockchain, generative art, and cryptography, the work culminates in a live performance.
3D/Interactive Award Winner 2023
Sarah Selby
Between the Lines is a creative intervention that aims to embed the lived experiences of individuals subjected to the UK border regime back into the bureaucratic systems that govern them.
Immersive Environment Award Winner 2023
Collective Act
Dreamachine is a seated multisensory experience that combines flickering white light and music to create a colourful world behind your closed eyes. A magical journey to explore the extraordinary potential of your own mind.
Global Majority Award Winner 2023
Francois Knoetze, Russel Hlongwane and Amy Louise Wilson
A creative research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists explore and imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African continent.