<nettime-ann> Call for Digital Art

Call for entries for the 2017 Lumen Prize

An international open call for artists engaged with digital technology.

Deadline: June 1, 2017

Now welcoming submissions, The Lumen Prize is an international award that celebrates artists working with technology.

Open to emerging and established artists working with technology and digital media, the competition offers a prize fund of $10,500, plus shortlisted and winning artists will have their works included in Lumen’s annual programme of exhibitions and events around the world.

Now in its 6th year, The Lumen Prize has already awarded over $40,000 in prize money and has staged over 30 exhibitions worldwide, in cities including London, New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam and Athens.

The 2017 prizes are:

Gold Award ($3000)
Moving Image ($1000)
Still Image ($1000)
AR/VR ($1000)
3D/Sculpture ($1000)
Interactive ($1000)
Web-based ($1000)
Founder’s Award ($750)
Meural Student Prize ($500)
People’s Choice Award ($250)

In 2016 the Gold Award was presented to the Italian duo Fabio Giampietro and Alessio de Vecchi for Hyperplanes of Simultaneity, a virtual reality experience which transformed the traditional canvas into a 360° cityscape. Since winning the award the duo have been featured in national, technology and arts press, and Fabio recently hosted a series of workshops at the House of Peroni experiential event in London.

Shortlisted artists and recipients of The Lumen Prize from other years have also gone on to achieve success around the world. British artist Andy Lomas’ 2014 Prize winning work Cellular Forms is now in the collection of the V&A; Alexandra Handal, winner of the 2014 People’s Choice Gold Award, whose web-based Dream Homes Property Consultants has recently been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; and Michael Takeo Magurder, recipient of the 2015 Immersive Environments Award for A New Jerusalem, who is currently artist-in-residence at The British Library.

Other artists who have been shortlisted and/or received awards include: Jon McCormack, Carla Gannis, Golan Levin, Esther Rolinson, Fabiano Mixo, Sam Rolfes, Matteo Zamagni, Claire Reika Wright, Marpi and onformative.

Charlotte Lee
Assistant Director
The Lumen Prize
www.lumenprize.com

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The Lumen Prize celebrates the world's best digitally-created art through a juried competition and global tour.