
2016 Winners
Introducing our 2016 Lumen Prize Winners

Gold Award Winner 2016
Fabio Giampietro & Alessio De Vecchi
In Fabio Giampietro’s work the barriers of art come tumbling down and a relation of continuity and simultaneity between the three spatial dimensions and time becomes tangible, though still imponderable, at the viewer’s eyes

Moving Image Award Winner 2016
boredomresearch
boredomresearch’s work is informed by principles of scientific modelling, inspired by the mechanisms and behaviours of natural systems. Central to their work is the aesthetic expression of intriguing patterns, motions and forms, expressed in real-time over extended durations, using technologies usually associated with computer games

3D/Sculpture Award Winner 2016
Esther Rolinson and Sean Clark
Flown is an interactive light installation by Esther Rolinson, developed with artist/programmer Sean Clark. It is an immersive form, constructed from multiple interlocking geometric shapes embedded with LEDs. Flown appears as an ephemeral drifting cloud-like structure, one that we are experiencing at both a macro and micro level, watching light refracting through it’s form.

Interactive Award Winner 2016
Seb Lee-Delisle
Laser Light Synths is a large-scale outdoor interactive light installation that gives members of the public the chance to feel the exhilaration of performing live music. It features 4 custom-made super bright LED emblazoned synths, and powerful lasers projecting visuals that respond to the music and cover the building with shimmering dancing lights.

VR/AR Award Winner 2016
Matteo Zamagni, Ben Hur and David Li
Nature Abstraction is an immersive sensory experience that explores the arcane forms of fractals, mathematical visual representation of natural and biological forms.

Still Image Award Winner 2016
Jon McCormack
Fifty Sisters is comprised of fifty 1m x 1m images of computer synthesised plant-forms, algorithmically “grown” from computer code using artificial evolution and generative grammars. Each plant-like form is derived from the primitive graphic elements of oil company logos.

Web-Based Award winner 2016
Sylvia Grace Borda
Sylvia Grace Borda has worked closely to create the first explorative artworks in Google Street view in partnership with Google Business StreetView photographer, John M Lynch. Her series simply entitled FARM TABLEAUX captures farmers enacting a routine activity, but unlike conventionally staged photographs, the observer can explore these framed compositions within an interactive Google StreetView landscape.

Distinction for Games Award Winner 2016
Wengu Hu
Eddy Melody is a video game that highlights the power of music in its narrative and in its design. The story follows a group of musicians travelling in a world where every creature has its own pitch. The musicians become peaceful warriors when they discover that playing an enemy’s pitch makes him their ally.

People’s Choice Award Winner 2016
Kim Chaeyeon, Gangneung
Main subject of the artwork is a receipt. The woman who is asleep covered by many receipts in the room that is full of that means modern people who is encroached on the capitalism society.