2023 Winners

Introducing our 2023 Lumen Prize Winners

Gold Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Crypto Art Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Student Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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BCS Futures Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Moving Image Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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'.

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HUA Award 華艺数奖 Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Nordic Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Still Image Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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 Metaversal Generative Art Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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3D/Interactive Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Immersive Environment Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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Global Majority Award Winner 2023
Jack Addis Jack Addis

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.

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