[artinfo] Call for Digital Art - 2017 Lumen Prize

[Charlotte Lee]

Call for entries for the 2017 Lumen Prize  

An international open call for artists engaged with digital technology.

<http://lumenprize.com/>Apply here.

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
<http://www.lumenprize.com>www.lumenprize.com