Join the very best artists working with technology

The 2023 Call for Entries Opens 3rd of March

2022 Gold Award - Jitr by Nitcha Tothong & Kengchakaj Kengkarnka

We Support Artists

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Now in its 12th year, it has distributed more than US$100,000 in prize money and created opportunities with partners worldwide for artists who have been longlisted, shortlisted or won Lumen Awards.

Watch & Read

Our blog and social media channels are a platform to showcase the artists in our community, all of whom have won awards or have been shortlisted or longlisted for The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology.

Blog

Raising Issues

For the past five years, the BCS Chartered Institute of IT has been sponsoring a Lumen Prize category. Brian Runciman, Head of Content and Insight at BCS takes a look at this year’s shortlist of the BCS Immersive Environment Award. Read more.

Eyes on Lumen

The respected online magazine, Right Click Save, has been tracking the progress of the 2022 Lumen Awards. Read on for highlights from their articles on this year’s competition. Read more…

Diving into Botto

As the Botto Project turns one next month, has the artist Mario Klingemann’s creation delivered on its ambition to reach the status of fully-automated artist and crowd-sourced taste maker? Rachel Falconer, Independent Curator and Head of Digital Arts Computing at Goldsmiths, University London, takes a look. Read More…

Meet the 2022 Winners

Meet the 2022 Shortlist

Meet the 2022 Longlist

Prize Highlights

$13,500 Prize Fund

11 artists will win cash prizes of up to $4000.

Join the Lumen Artist Community

Up to 70 artists are longlisted annually and are automatically included in the Lumen Artist Community. Lumen Art Projects, our parent company, works to connect these artists to our partner organisations for paid opportunities, we also regularly highlight our community through interviews and articles.

Meet The Jury

The Lumen Prize selection panel is composed of leading international art curators who specialize in art and technology. Learn more about our judging process.

Judges

Christiane Paul

Adjunct Curator, Digital Art, Whitney Museum

Melanie Lenz

Digital Curator, V&A Museum

Nathan Ladd

Assistant Curator, Tate Britain

Boris Magrini

Curator, HeK Basel

Silke Schmickl

Lead Curator, Moving Image, M+ Museum

Why Enter

We’re building a community. Lumen is dedicated to providing opportunities for our longlisted, shortlisted and winning artists, but don’t take our word for it. Read more here.

Why Enter blog

Julieta Gil

“Lumen provides an opportunity to be part of a community who believes in the need to shape the conversation about what it means to make art with technology in the current world.”

Béatrice Lartigue

"The prize allowed us to develop our visibility, to increase our legitimacy in the field and to expand our ability to exhibit our work worldwide”

Andy Lomas

“The prize was an important enabler, allowing me to take my art practice to a higher level”

Rachel Ara

"Lumen gave me confidence in my practice and has led on to me exhibiting in large venues"

Jake Elwes

”Lumen is passionate about keeping up with the artists and establishing a community”

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm

“Winning the Lumen Prize introduced me to a large community of actors within the Tech Art scene that has been able to push my career forward.”

How to Enter

Our 2023 Call for Entries will open on 3rd March

We have partnered with Zealous to make uploading your work simple and reduce the stress of submitting your work saving you time. The application is short and can be completed in under 20 minutes. The form only contains these questions:

What Category do you want to submit to
Artwork name
Partners & Collaborators
Artwork description
Artwork technical description
Contact Details

Pay The Fee

Early Bird Fee

3rd March - 24th March, $32 for two works

Regular Fee

25th March - 26th May, $42 for two works

Find all the info on how to enter here.