The Lumen Prize
@lumenprize
Celebrating the very best art created with technology through a global competition. Creating opportunities for artists across the globe.
The 2025 Lumen Prize is officially OPEN! 🎉 🗓️ Call for Entries Jan 31 - May 24 ✨ 9 Categories to Enter 💸 $30,000 Total Prize Pool 🔗 zealous.co/lumenprize/opp… ✨ JUDGING PROCESS ✨ All submissions will be reviewed by members of our International Selectors Committee. 50-75…
Fashion & Design is evolving and so are the minds shaping its future. This year’s judges sit at the cutting edge of design innovation, digital fashion, architecture, and speculative material culture. Their practices explore everything from spatial computing, sustainable couture,…
The Future of Performance & Music Early Trends from The Lumen Prize Performance has long been a revered art form but today, its boundaries with music, art and technology are dissolving. This new award celebrates artists reshaping live expression through AI, motion capture,…
Early Trends from the Literature & Poetry Award Artists are challenging everything we thought we knew about writing; expanding the definitions of language, blending code with personal experience, and transforming words into environments, sounds, and movement. Here, poetry and…
Purveyors of Digital Poetry Meet the ISC judging the Literature & Poetry Award To judge this boundary-pushing category, we’ve assembled a panel of visionary experts at the crossroads of literature, technology, and digital culture. Our judges are acclaimed writers, curators, and…
Poetry in Code: Digital Artists Driving the New Literary Renaissance Where storytelling isn’t just read, it’s felt, performed, and co-created with machines. The Literature & Poetry Award was created to champion the artists at the forefront of this thrilling evolution, pushing…
What happens when art stops being something we look at and starts becoming something we feel? This year’s Experiential entries have moved beyond the visual to create spaces of sensation, memory, and co-creation. From haptic storytelling to responsive architecture, we have seen…
Meet the minds behind the Experiential Award To evaluate such a diverse category, where presence, emotion, and participation redefine storytelling, we’ve assembled a jury uniquely equipped to navigate the evolving landscape of immersive art. Our judges represent a rare blend of…
Can 'presence' be the medium and 'interaction' be the message? The Experiential Award celebrates artists crafting immersive worlds exploring this concept and this year’s entries reveal a powerful shift: stories are no longer told solely in images or text, but through proximity,…
Fluid Forms, Radical Minds: Reimagining Art in an Entangled World Our Hybrid Award selectors are experts within digital culture, AI and immersive tech. Together, they bring decades of experience spanning museum transformation, blockchain ecosystems, immersive storytelling, and…
Fragmented Time & Entangled Worlds The Hybrid Award: Early Trends This year’s Hybrid entries resist fixed form and singular medium, instead embracing layered, shape-shifting practices that cross between digital and material, myth and machine. Across these works, time fractures…
Wearable Futures and Bio-Responsive Design This year’s Fashion & Design applicants move beyond the runway to craft speculative wardrobes, responsive spaces, and architectures that feel alive. Garments are no longer static objects, they’re memory keepers, emotional tools, and…
Where Form meets Function Early Trends from the Fashion & Design Award The Fashion & Design Award recognises artists operating at the intersection of wearability, spatial experience, and technological experimentation. Across this year’s entries, a clear shift emerges: garments…
How is technology enabling post-genre hybrids in performance? Artists are rejecting the fixed genre of the artform to explore what a blended world of art, tech and performance can look like. Challenging the boundaries between code and composition and turning bodies into an…
The Moving Image Award ISC Members The Moving Image Award celebrates digital works that push the boundaries of time-based storytelling, through animation, CGI, generative visuals, machinima, video art, and beyond. This year’s jury brings together curators, collectors,…
Generative Loops & Machinic Dreams The Moving Image Award: Early Trends This year’s Moving Image artists abandon linear plot in favor of generative systems, machinic vision, and AI-driven loops. Narrative gives way to mood and memory, as grief, identity, and nonlinear time…
📣 Call for Submissions: The AI Art Magazine Open Call for Issue No. 2 Our friends at @the_ai_art_mag are inviting artists working at the intersection of art and technology (anyone creating with code, models, tools, or machines) to submit works shaped by AI or that engage with…
The Still Image Award ISC Members To evaluate The Lumen Prize’s longest-standing category, we enlisted the help of some of the art worlds leading minds. The Still Image Award has become a benchmark for how digital artists interrogate memory, identity, and technology in fixed…
Digital Decay & Glitch The Still Image Award: Early Trends This year, the new wave of Still Image work is not here to play it safe. We’re seeing a powerful shift toward AI-mediated memory, surveillance aesthetics, data portraiture, and the haunting beauty of synthetic nature.…
📣 Introducing Jury Member: @BorisMagrini Curator and art historian Boris studied art history and philosophy at the University of Geneva and completed his PhD at the University of Zurich. Curated shows include Entangled Realities (HeK, Basel, 2019), Future Love. (HeK, Basel,…