LUMEN Prize for Art and Technology 2025
Description:
The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Since its launch in 2012, it has given away more than US$100,000 in prize money and created opportunities worldwide for the artists who have been longlisted, shortlisted or won.
2025 Call for Entries
Still Image - Digital artworks in fixed form: photography, painting, illustration and AI-generated imagery
Moving Image - Time-based works including film, video art and animation
Performance & Music - Live and recorded works combining digital technology with performance, dance, sound and music
Fashion & Design - Innovative works across fashion, architecture, and product design using digital processes
Hybrid (Digital/Physical) - Artworks that co-exist in both the digital and physical spaces
Experiential - Interactive and/or immersive works including XR, installations, environments and light art
Literature & Poetry - Works exploring language and text through digital means
Nature & Climate - Works examining environmental themes and our relationship with the natural world
Identity & Culture - Works exploring personal and collective identity, heritage and cultural exchange
Awards and Prizes (Selection):
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The 2025 prize pool is $30,000, with ten awards total:
Lumen Prize Gold Award ($12,000)
Nine category awards ($2,000 each) - Entry Form
- Deadline: 24 May 2025
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2020 Coverage
An emotive depiction of feminist graffiti - sparked by protests against violence towards women and covering a Mexico City landmark - has won the 2020 Lumen Gold Award for outstanding art created with technology.
“Nuestra Victoria/Our Victory” by Julieta Gil, a Mexican artist, uses photogrammetry techniques to capture a timeline of protests concerning systemic violence towards women. The work creates a digital archive of the Ángel de la Independencia (Angel of Independence), a Mexico City monument, which was occupied by protestors in August 2019. Following the protest, government officials began immediate restoration of the monument.
"This is the first time in our nine-year history that a work rooted in protest has carried off the Lumen Prize Gold Award. Its selection by the Jury Panel reflects its haunting artistic beauty, the extraordinary use of photogrammetry techniques and its strong political impact,” comments Carla Rapoport, Executive Director of Lumen Art Projects, which runs the annual competition for art and technology. At Wednesday’s virtual awards ceremony, the Lumen Prize handed out a total of nine awards worth $11,500. The list of winners includes artists from Germany, the United States, Uruguay, Mexico, the UK, Denmark, and La Réunion, a French Island in the Indian Ocean.
New Awards for 2020
Lumen increased the global reach of its applicants by introducing two new awards: the Global South Award, for art created by an artist or collective from Africa, Latin America, or the developing economies of Asia and the Middle East; and the Nordic Award, offered in partnership with Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (SKMU) in Southern Norway, for art created by an artist or collective from Nordic countries.
Mexican artist Tupac Matir took home the Global South Award for his work “The Cosmos Within Us”, a VR and live performance hybrid created in collaboration with Satore Studios that explores the experience of loss through the lens of a man suffering with Alzheimer’s disease.
Danish artist Søren Krag was awarded the Nordic Award for “Deux Mille Fleurs/Two Thousand Flowers”, a medieval- and renaissance-inspired tapestry created by digitally weaving 2,000 unique algorithmically generated flowers.
2019 Event Coverage
Event Dates
- 19/10/2025
