Announcement of the Lumen Prize 2023
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The 2023 Lumen Prize Winners
To celebrate the 12th Lumen Awards, this year's Lumen Prize winners were announced, with a total prize fund of $14,500 distributed across a range of diverse categories. These categories include Gold, Still Image, Moving Image, Futures, BCS Immersive Environment, 3D/Interactive, Global Majority, Nordic, Student, and two new additions: the Metaversal Generative Art Award and the Crypto Art Awards.
Lumen is more than an art prize. Established in 2012, the Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Lumen is run by Lumen Art Projects, a UK-based digital arts champion which builds these opportunities by curating exhibitions, commissions and events for art venues, cultural institutions and public spaces around the world as well as delivering consultancy services for partners globally.
2023 Gold Award Winner | Awarded to 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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2023 Global Majority Award Winner | Awarded to 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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2023 Immersive Environment Award Winner | Awarded to 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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2023 Metaversal Generative Art Award Winner | Awarded to 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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2023 Still Image Award Winner | Awarded to 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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2023 Moving Image Award Winner | Awarded to 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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Crypto Art Award Winner | Awarded to 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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