
2018 Winners
Introducing our 2018 Lumen Prize Winners

Gold Award Winner 2018
Mario Klingemann
This image has been generated entirely by a machine using a chain of GANs (generative adversarial neural networks). In this chain a randomly generated stick-figure is used as an input to the first GAN, which produces a painterly-looking low-resolution proto-image.

Still Image Award Winner 2018
Mark Lyons
Resulting from an interest in the role of emerging technology within art and its relationship to more traditional modes of making, ‘Overload (Consequence)’ utilises Google’s Deep Dream artificial neural network.

Moving Image Award winner 2018
Sungjae Lee
‘Avyakrta: The Unanswered Questions’ is a 10-channel digital painting created by Sung-Jae Lee. This project is one of the video works for VH AWARD 2015, promoted by Hyundai Motor Group in South Korea. To appreciate details and the scale of this work, this edited version has the camera work with its main parts.

3D/Interactive Award Winner 2018
GayBird
Fidgety is a nervous and jumpy feeling. Normally people will see that is a bad feeling. But the artist treats this as a musical idea. The Chinese character「忐忑」 was designed like a pictograph, which uses the words 「上」“up” and 「下」“down” over the word 「心」“heart” to describe this feeling.

XR Award Winner 2018
New Reality Company
‘Tree’, a location-based virtual reality experience, transforms you into a majestic rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as a trunk, you’ll experience the tree’s life from a seedling to its fullest form, and witness its fate firsthand.

BCS Artificial Intelligence Award Winner 2018
Cesar & Lois
‘Degenerative Cultures’ creates a biological-technological network in that living microorganisms, digital networks and artificial intelligence work together. Replicating the logic of so-called intelligent microorganisms (Physarum polycephalum), the artists developed a “bhiobrid” agent, blurring the limits between biological and artificial intelligence.

Meural Student Award Winner 2018
Ziwei Wu
This inspiration of this work from the part of music torture in Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. Through the mechanism of the punishment of Tantalus, I created a new mechanism which can control others through audio. In several dimensions of magnifying glass’ view, we can see seven different little worlds.

Rapoport Award for Women in Digital Art Winner 2018
Felicity Hammond
‘In Defence of Industry’ brings into focus the relationship between the industrial history of the northwest of England and the wider Cumbrian landscape, in particular the area’s mining history and the subsequent shift towards the nuclear industry during the mid-20th century.

People’s Choice Award Winner 2018
Mattia Casalegno
The ‘Aerobanquets RMX’ is a series of immersive, augmented sensorial experiences focused on taste and perception.