Lumen Prize Winners Archive

Nitcha Tothong & Kengchakaj Kengkarnka

Jitr จิตร is a speculative, imaginary electronics ensemble using computer programing to generate and provide possibilities of decolonized Southeast Asia sound culture and its visual representation, aiming to reconcile the lost connection of Southeast Asia's shared heritage.

ZU-UK

Audio driven, walking game for 3 players in a Mall. You are a ghost-hunter, broadcasting your journey as you walk through portals into the far-away dimensions of a haunted Mall. Part ghost-hunt, part late-night radio, part walking meditation, a game towards ethical consumption.

Arjan Emmanuel Sanchez Guerrero

Amaroid inverts the traditional logic of the diorama by augmenting a virtual-native object within and beyond the screen. Generated by an AI trained on the contemporary visual world, a fossilizing organism travels and transforms across time but also across different materialities.

Eddie Wong

Portrait of the Jungle People explores both the artist’s family history and ‘rhizome’ through a series of fragmented narratives using text to image AI models.

Sophia Ioannou Gjerding

Homage to Airway takes its starting point in a 1920s photograph depicting the dog Airway, who was a part pet, part lab animal to two anesthesiologists. It is about the status of images and how we live with, and re-code, existing images.

Aaron Penne x Boreta

A single program created 1000 unique NFT artworks that play infinitely w/o repeating. Generative music and generative artwork 100% synthesized from javascript code stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Later released as a pioneering audiovisual album.

Dillon Marsh

These images combine photography and CGI to show the output of various copper mines in South Africa. The rendered and composited spheres represent accurately scaled models of the total copper mass removed from each mine.

Gong Yining & Sun Aijia

As our civilization spreads, plants have responded in their way. Nature and industry are entangled with each other in an irreversible trend. The work explores the increasingly melted boundaries between them through documentation and experimentation, rebuilding an interactive relationship

Maximilian Seeger

Diatoms produce one-fourth of the world's oxygen. Though these microscopic organisms don't get the attention they deserve. This work generatively calculates 3D models of diatoms and makes it possible to interactively explore the mysteries of the microscopic life below water.

Libby Heaney

Ent- 2022 is an immersive projection exploring the emerging field of quantum computing as a medium and subject matter. Animations within the work were made with quantum computing, allowing groups of people to experience the invisible quantum processes.

Russell Perkins

The Future Tense is an AI-driven sound installation about collective grief and the management of uncertainty. The piece was made in collaboration with researchers at SonyCSL Paris and includes a publication. It was first shown at Les Réserves du Frac Île-de-France in Summer 2021.