
2021 Winners
Introducing our 2021 Lumen Prize Winners

Gold Award Winner 2021
Nye Thompson & UBERMORGEN
The world’s first horror movie for and by machines. An emergent Network Organism scans and breathes in the world for the first time through millions of virally abused CCTV cameras.

BCS Immersive Environment Award Winner 2021
Operator
A multimedia tapestry centered around the artists' signal isolating and blocking trench coat, enveloping audience-participants in an immersive experience exploring the subjects of extractive technologies, data privacy, and surveillance.

Futures Award Winner 2021
Gottfried Haider
A reconstruction of warehouse environments through air cushions (series of air analysis results and cast objects, and single-channel video)

3D/Interactive Award Winner 2021
Sarah Choo Jing
Documents the artists neighbours dancing in their apartments during the lockdown, while Chief Editor Christina J. Chua also reminisces dancing alone, together.

Global South Award Winner 2021
Minne Atairu
An ongoing exploration of bronze heads that could have been produced, should the 1897 British invasion not have occurred in Benin Kingdom

Moving Image Award Winner 2021
Juan Covelli
This project integrates aspects of research and history of landscape, and blends them with audiovisual production using tools such as artificial intelligence, 3D capture, and modelling to make experimental video pieces that tackle critically the policies of technology.

Nordic Award Winner 2021
Pontus Lidberg & Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
A dance work that examines the consequences of using Artificial Intelligence and the power of humanized technology. A collaboration with AI-Artist Cecilie Waagner-Falkenstrøm and Det Kongelige Teater.

Still Image Award Winner 2021
Ziv Schneider
Co-written with AI, Sylvia is a storytelling experiment that disrupted the virtual influencer landscape for a short period of time. Unlike her “peers” who are designed to appear young forever, Sylvia was designed to age rapidly. She posted to Instagram from July to November 2020.

Student Award Winner 2021
Cezar Mocan
A work of speculative fiction which responds to the use of landscape photography as a carrier for brand ideologies, on the computer desktop and beyond. The fictional company proposes the synthetic landscape as a “clean, context-free alternative to nature imagery”.