The Identity & CultureAward

The Lumen Prize is proud to introduce another new category for this year: The Identity & Culture Award — created to honour digital artworks that explore themes of personal and collective identity, heritage, memory, and cultural exchange. From interactive archives and generative rituals to immersive narratives of migration, resistance, and belonging, this award celebrates works that give voice to lived experience and expand the cultural lens of digital art.

This award was inspired by a growing global movement toward more inclusive, reflective, and representative creative practices — works that engage with the complexities of identity, challenge cultural boundaries, and reimagine the way we understand ourselves and each other in a digital world. These projects may be deeply personal or powerfully communal, but they are always grounded in storytelling, history, and connection.

Meet the International Selectors Committee for the
Identity & Culture Award

To evaluate the diverse and deeply nuanced works in this category, we’ve brought together a jury of curators, artists, researchers, and cultural strategists whose practices sit at the intersection of art, technology, and identity.

Spanning independent initiatives and major institutions, academic research and grassroots collectives, their expertise includes digital curation, post-colonial studies, blockchain and art, participatory design, and contemporary visual culture. Their experience ranges from shaping international exhibitions to leading cultural policy, from nurturing emerging voices to interrogating the systems that shape digital representation.

Together, this jury brings a multifaceted and critically engaged perspective to the selection process — one that recognises the emotional weight, historical significance, and cultural potential of digital works that speak to who we are and where we come from.

Please note: This list includes ISC members who have chosen to publicly share their involvement, while others remain anonymous or are still being confirmed.

  • British Council

  • [ANTI]MATERIA

  • Off Site Project

  • ArtMeta

  • University of Greenwich

  • Museum of Nordic Digital Art - MoNDA

  • Independent curator, producer and cultural worker

  • Curator & Art Strategist

  • University of Greenwich

Are you an artist working at the intersection of art and technology?

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Now in its 14th year, The Lumen Prize has distributed more than $125,000 in prize money and created opportunities worldwide for the artists selected as finalists and winners.

Click the button below to submit your artwork – entries close May 23rd.