2024 Lumen Prize
Winners
Out of nearly 2,000 applicants from over 60 countries, 65 exceptional finalists emerged, and now our judges have selected just 10 winners. We are thrilled to introduce the 2024 Lumen Prize Winners.
Decoding Bias
2024 Gold Award Winner
Theresa Reiwer
In an immersive 8-channel video installation, eight AIs meet for a group therapy session to purge biased algorithms and rewrite toxic programs. Navigating through moral concepts, the hyper-realistic humanoid avatars are repeatedly thrown back to their human-made, flawed datasets.
Blind Camera
2024 Still Image Award Winner
Diego Trujillo Pisanty
Blind Camera creates images using sound instead of light while inquiring about bias in AI. The device uses a custom-made artificial neural network to convert sound into image. It was trained with data from Mexico City restricting its interpretations of the world to this locale.
We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other
2024 Moving Image Award Winner
Chia Amisola
An endless opening/closing/moving. A wanting/walking/waking. A dream sequence. An infinite elegy and memory in form of an electronic literature piece and its hypertextual performances that challenge the possibilities of intimacy, proximity, and densities on the internet.
Parallels
2024 Interactive Immersive Award Winner
Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser
“Parallels” is a site-specific, responsive machine-learning installation which transforms a large LED wall into a frame that allows audiences to encounter the world and themselves through the lens of a neural network.
Catalog for the Post-Human
2024 Futures Award Winner
Parsons & Charlesworth
Catalog for the Post-Human is a satirical multimedia installation featuring 10 sculptural works and animations mimicking a near-future organization’s trade fair booth. The work critiques late capitalism's role in creating ethically questionable workplace enhancement products.
Undergrown | drafting a hedge against existential risk exposure
2024 Impact Award Winner
Lukas Truniger
The installation is re-purposing obsolete crypto mining hardware, which would otherwise have become e-waste. It is hacked to participate in scientific volunteer computing and thus contributes a tiny bit to reduce our existential planetary risks exposure.
Human Resource the Musical
2024 Nordic Award Winner
Sponsored by Kunstsilo
Maren Dagny Juell
A female avatar is about to give a TED style talk about the effective use of Human Resources. She bursts into song and the lecture hall turns into a surreal office landscape where she performs her own Disney-inspired musical - together with office equipment and machines.
Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊*·˚
2024 BCS Award Winner
Sponsored by BCS
Keiken
“Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊*·̊'' is an immersive and interactive installation, featuring a haptic wearable womb. It explores empathetic connection, embodiment and communication while drawing from the body’s energy currents, material animism and sensory substitution.
AI Nüshu
2024 Carla Rapoport Award Winner
UchanSun
Can AI learn from ancient Chinese women and create their own secret language? "AI Nüshu," an interactive art project that merges computational linguistics with the legacy of Nüshu, a unique language created and used exclusively by women in China.
Reverie of Awakening
2024 Student Award Winner
Sponsored by ZORA
Reverie of Awakening Team
Reveries of Awakening is a MR game project inspired by the surreal experiences of the pandemic, exploring themes of reality and dreams, and the journey from despair to a positive mindset.