2025 Lumen Prize
Finalists
With over 2,200+ submissions from 71 countries, this milestone year for The Lumen Prize celebrates 99 visionary works forging new systems of meaning through technology’s evolving creative frontier.
2025 Still Image Award Finalists
Gretchen Andrew
Facetune Portraits use custom robotics 🤖 to physically apply popular “beautifying” AI 👄 into oil paintings 🎨. The resulting Facetune Portraits reveal the tension between who we are and who AI and algorithms say we should be. We see the the homogenizing impact across cultures.
Esteban Amaro
In a desert of stardust and silence, AI-born monoliths rise—photograms lost in the sand, lost in time. Echoes of the past, glimpses of the future. Between myth and matter. Are these AI able to see what we cannot see? A journey through time, space and creation.
Aphic
This artwork symbolizes the transition of photography in the age of AI. By contrasting past and present photographs, it reveals how our perception of images has changed and explores the potential for the future shaped by humans and AI.
Ana María Caballero
The Sylphs is from Being Borges, a poetic and (post) photographic recasting of Jorge Luis Borges & Margarita Guerrero's 'Book of Imaginary Beings,' a landmark work of Spanish literature. This series begs the question: What's at stake when language becomes literal via the visual?
Danielle Ezzo
An Incantation in Twelve Prompts is a poem paired with photographic images. The poem delineates a relationship between two lovers—the image maker and the medium of photography itself. Each stanza serves as a prompt, which is then fed into a text-to-image stable diffusion model.
Kevin Esherick
I'm With You is a series in which the artist trained a model on images of his late brother, to imagine what life might look like if he were still here. The pieces were made by interrupting the image generation process, leaving the images half-formed, like memories slipping away.
Kevin Esherick
Hyperportrait I is a self portrait in latent space. Created by training an AI model on images of the artist then extracting the abstract representation it develops, it can be used to generate infinite images of the artist. It is a portrait that contains all other portraits.
Susanne Fagerlund
Susanne Fagerlund explores animals, plants, and digital hybrid species in the project. She draws inspiration from nature's ability to resist, adapt, metamorphose, and form networks to share resources.
Ellii
Polyamour mon Amour is a reflection on human entanglement, where souls entwine and unfold in an unexpected choreography, a dance where the fleeting converges with the inevitable. It celebrates the unpredictability of connection, an homage to the delicate strength of bonds
Chikai
A piece from my ANOMALIA collection, situating a lone figure as both subject and rupture within a broader socio-cultural stream. A subtle piscine morphology emerges in the textural surfaces—scales, fins, gills—traces of evolutionary ancestry where refusal becomes a visible force.
Liat Segal
The site-specific immersive installation covers the Wende Museum’s windows with dozens of coded machine-made paintings, filtering the view with an added layer of reality - a Hyperreality.
Jessica Tucker
Private photographs from the artist’s phone are transformed into eruptive bodies made of her own face. Subverting the deepfake to hide within her own image, they cannibalize visibility in a time when we are relentlessly reduced and reconstructed by invisible algorithmic gazes.
Pindar Van Arman
“Reflection” explores mechanical creativity as a robot makes marks, analyzes them with agentic AI, then deciding what to do next based on its own progress. Inspired by Paul Klee’s feedback loops, it’s a synthetic creative process at the threshold of information and imagination.
aurèce vettier
Sculptural diptych by aurèce vettier composed of two engraved sandstone tablets framed in charred oak. The work blends poetic writing, personal history, and AI-generated language and alphabets into a visual meditation on fragility and resilience.
2025 Moving Image Award Finalists
Andrea Balestrero
Inspired by Kurt Lewin's book "The Landscape of War" and driven by the multiplication of armed conflicts that has occurred in recent years, "Broken Mirror" is an exploration on how contemporary media coverage of wars affects our perception of space and objects from an architectural and artistic perspective.
Sofia Crespo
The work is the result of using neural networks trained and inferenced on the sources of inspiration in the natural world found in Casa Batllo, allowing for the animation of the buildings facade with the rich biodiversity that inspired it. Additionally complex natural simulations were used, along with data from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.
Anna Giralt Gris
A post-human voice in dialogue with the future, questioning the boundaries between humanity and technology. This artwork is the pilot episode of a short online series that invites the viewer to reconsider what it means to be human in an age shaped by artificial intelligence, memory engineering, and digital consciousness.
Jeremy Kamal
“Mojo: The Floods” is an animated CGI short film, set in a fictional universe called Mojo. In a world where contemporary urban rituals shape natural systems, the film depicts a speculative ecology where a trap-producer controls an entire watershed through his mixing board.
Muwen Li
A lone binary impulse '1' suffers a bitflip—thrown into the blackbox of a game’s hidden circuitry. As the glitch deepens, it reconstructs its lost world from lines to volumes, journeying through chaos toward the matrix, where it realizes: it is one among countless bits.
Monica Menez
The creative industry is at a turning point. Professions that were once considered irreplaceable – photographers, stylists, copywriters, or models – are disappearing or changing radically. But what remains of them? And what is emerging? 20 images and a short film explore exactly
Entangled Others
'self-contained' is the mutatation of digital images as DNA: crossbreeding, mutating, and splicing random compressed fragments, as a way of exploring encoding/decoding information as image-making. The final mutating artwork into synthesized DNA, stored in a physical capsule,
Yuko Suzuki
Color separation in traditional woodblock prints is reimagined through code and motion. Photographs of Shibuya are deconstructed into pixel flows—evoking a layered landscape where printmaking logic meets digital transformation.
Niceaunties
Goddess is a four-part film following a divine being who forgets herself through years of domestic labour. Inspired by Niceaunties’ grandmother, it’s a tribute to women trapped in earthly routines—until one day, they wake up and leave.
David Sheldrick
Inconvenient Realities, part of the 'Empire' project, blends AI-generated visuals and 35mm film to explore human identity and history through whimsical yet poignant animated vignettes, challenging our perception of memory and narrative authenticity.
Ivona Tau
A Life Passed By reimagines a fading family archive through AI. Trained on re-discovered 8mm family films and damaged negatives, the work reconstructs a memoryscape shaped by dementia—where faces shift, time loops, and generative errors mirror the fragile mechanics of forgetting.
Carlos Velandia and Angélica Restrepo
Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience are nourished by a collective pain and a desire to crack through it all.
Zhongyao Wang
“Pixel Metabolism, Interface Ulcer” envisions a disembodied, screen-dominated AI future encircled by satellites: virtual imagery is compressed into a tiny pink pill that invades the flesh in reverse, dissolving the boundary between digital and biological.
Yufan Xie
This art project creates a moon-gazing ritual that re-imagines the moon as a concurrent presence across parallel realities. Experimenting with AI technologies, it questions the relationship between personal memory and collective memory by challenging the concept of “Lunar Mosaic'
YZA Voku
X-ray of a dream that refuses to fade. In a suspended space —which could be a night, a thought, or an entire lifetime— 'Sutura.' is a sensorial journey through the mind of a narrator caught between wakefulness and memory. Fragments of memory. Blurred images. Emotions that precede
2025 Performance & Music Award Finalists
Guy Ben-Ary
Revivification transforms the late composer Alvin Lucier's blood cells into living brain organoids, creating ever evolving sonic landscapes via neural activity, allowing his biological material to continue composing after death - a radical exploration of posthumous creativity.
Thijs Biersteker
Memories of the Melted' turns Swiss‑glacier monitoring data into a living performance: past flow, current retreat and projected futures ripple through a clear ice slab that melts or regrows as you interact, turning climate loss into tactile memory and urgent call to act.
Eva Davidova
Audience As Virus is an ongoing research and an interactive immersive installation-performance that involves the audience in the possibility to break ChatGPT and HMDM predictions of human movement, and offers the public a clear capacity to intervene.
Maria Finkelmeier
Hourglass explores our fleeting relationship with time—its lessons and its challenges. A live performance for marimba, electronics, voice, and generative visuals, the work immerses audiences in each nuanced musical gesture, revealing the ephemeral nature of every expression.
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Onirica () is a live media opera exploring the ethereal perception of the body within the realm of dreams. The performance offers a novel exploration of that same narrative, this time with a new focus on sleep and dreams in their corporeal component.
Lisa Jamhoury
Maquette is a hybrid physical-virtual performance combining motion capture, contemporary circus, and gaming technology to explore how the human body is perceived, interpreted, and reimagined by both the physical and the programmed eye.
Nicholas Medvescek
Ritual / System is an immersive performance research project exploring relationships between frequencies of sound, light, rhythm and space. This performance strives to reorient the audience in perspective and perception through spatial audio and immersive visual presentation.
Vadim Mirgorod
We turned a classical concert into an introspective experience. Visitors tracked emotions in real time, choosing from 150+ nuanced feelings. Words floated on a transparent mesh, animated by air dynamics—blending music, motion, and self-awareness into one immersive moment.
Amu
This MR performance explores the water cycle—ice melting into water,then turning into steam—where reality & virtuality interact.The melting of a suspended ice cube is captured in sound & movement, then synthesized, decomposed,and amplified into immersive aural and visual elements
Laura Mannelli
Umweltraum((a)) is a nonlinear, immersive sound installation with live performance. Inspired by biologist Jakob von Uexküll’s concepts of Umwelt and Umweltraum, it explores a mutating synthetic ecosystem questioning life, machines, and non human intelligence
Ben Neal & Kerryn Wise
Replica combines Dance, Mixed Reality and Volumetric Capture, allowing a performer to duet with her digital double. Audiences experience a real and virtual dancer interacting, and are invited to question the nature of presence, mortality and representation in the digital age.
Yichu Li
In a world where human consciousness transcends the limits of flesh, YICHU 1.0 explores the raw emotional journey of transformation, self-reconstruction, and collective evolution.
2025 Fashion & Design Award Finalists
Yiming Cheng
Coral bleaching, driven by global warming, has become widespread, and to raise awareness, I have designed accessories using thermochromic materials to allow wearers to experience the coral's reaction to temperature changes and foster empathy.
Zixiong Wei
SCRY Vault, powered by the innovative Digital Embryo framework, revolutionizes footwear with fully integrated 3D-printed shoes. By reducing waste and production time, SCRY Vault merges art, technology, and sustainability, setting a new standard in shoe design and production.
Ryan Genz
Feel music and sound on your body as touch sensations. The SoundShirt is the first fabric-based haptic wearable to render the full audio spectrum in realtime, connecting deaf and hearing users alike to music, sports, and performance in emotional, immersive and surprising ways.
SCAD Awards
This made-to-order custom sweater generator that I developed allowed customers to manipulate code-generated patterns, including stripes, plaid, and polka dots, with a 'Generate New Random Pattern' button that creates unique combinations of colors and parameters.
2025 HybridAward Finalists
Yunso Jung
Mind in Motion is a series of interfaces that translate brain activity into creative outputs. At a time when the creative process is often automated, these interfaces offer users a souvenir that—even without direct control—can become an 'authentic' imprint of individuality.
Arvida Byström
Biblically Accurate Babe began when I found an AI tool that undresses women. I fed it images of myself and sold the deepfake nudes via a chatbot version of me. Now a holographic installation, the work merges sacred iconography with AI to expose digital authorship and desire.
Akinori Goto
Light projects onto a rotating mesh, revealing silhouettes of walking figures. This analog system visualizes motion, tracing paths, memories, and layers of time. As viewers walk through the space, they become part of this intersection of trajectories and unfolding moments.
Marco Conti Šikić
REPLICATIO explores how authorship, meaning, and transformation emerge from interaction between human gesture, AI, and mechanical reproduction. Through iterative reinterpretation, it challenges originality's boundaries and redefines drawing as a generative, collaborative process
Paula Sello
A groundbreaking fusion of nature and technology, presenting the world’s first couture that grows on the body in real-time. Through a crystallisation process, garments bloom organically over 6–12 hours before eventually disintegrating—mirroring the cycle of life.
Lundahl & Seitl
River Biographies reimagines the exhibition as a living ecosystem—porous to bodies, memory, and emotion. Guided by voices, moved by each other, visitors embody water and stone, writing the life of a river in the space between. We are not in nature—nature is within us.
Lachlan Turczan
Lucida invites viewers into a space sculpted entirely from light. Luminous veils ripple through mist, blurring the line between the tangible and intangible. Light takes on a physical presence—touched, inhabited, and shaped by movement.
Entangled Others
Liquid Strata explores 'marine snow'—microscopic organic particles drifting to the ocean floor. This art-science collaboration with oceanographer Joan Llort uses complex modeling simulations and sonic data to reveal an invisible global phenomenon known only through fragments.
Bjørn Staal
Entangled is a cross-chain generative art project featuring 512 particle simulations split across Ethereum and Tezos blockchains. The work extends into physical space through a kinetic sculpture where a robotic arm reenacts the digital gestures at architectual scale.
aurèce vettier
Monumental installation combining AI-generated imagery, bronze sculptures, oil paintings and Jacquard tapestry. It explores the poetic intersection of intimate memories, impossible nature, and technology through hybrid works born from dreams, personal data, AI and craftsmanship.
Yoki Yao
Whisper is a kinetic installation that simulates a looping Game of Telephone by using AI’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text services to transmit the warnings displayed on the interfaces of popular AI chatbot agents, inviting reflection on the trust we place in AI technologies.
Carlo Van de Roer and Taika Waititi
Toru is a three-channel video installation and interactive digital work by Carlo Van de Roer and Taika Waititi exploring mythology and new filmmaking technology to re-engage with early storytelling systems that shaped cultural memory through collaboration and reinterpretation.
Ziwei Wu
Mimicry' is an AI-driven ALife system exploring adaptation in nature and society, inspired by mimicry in nature and Walter Lippmann’s pseudo-environments. Audiences can interact with AI to create artificial environments, that shape virtual mimicry and influence reality
2025 Experiential Award Finalists
evala
It is a 128.4.4-channel immersive sound installation, comprising numerous small original speakers, each uniquely shaped like a sprout and emitting sound independently. It evokes imaginative sensations beyond what the eyes can perceive—like a dream seen without using one’s eyes.
Sophia Bulgakova
OTHERWORLDS is an XR ritual inspired by Ukrainian pagan traditions, guiding you through nature’s cycles via sound, symbols, and movement. A sensory journey of rebirth that connects past and present in a shared, transformative experience.
Emil Dam Seidel & Dorotea Saykaly
Telos I is an immersive, holographic, mixed reality experience that explores a mythical landscape in the digital age. 'After the extinction of humankind an artificial intelligence creates itself a body in search of a new purpose.'
Daniel Iregui
FORTUNES is a five-part neighbourhood-scale experience that invites visitors to explore the concept of luck by playing with their own shadows and creating Infinitely different living artworks that are never the same.
Yashika Goel
We must imagine alternative futures dripping in irregularities and multiplicities of our identities. Machine Yearning constitutes a critical experiment in AI-human interaction, examining computational reduction of emotional complexity through feminist data methodologies.
Sofia Crespo
Palaeolithic cave painters depicted their ecosystem, most species of which are now extinct. Using ML, 3D printing, and robotics, ancestral art is re-visited through now-endangered species, questioning how technology shapes perception and what testimony endures through time.
Ji He
Artemis is an immersive artificial ecosystem where bionic automatons emulate evolution. Inspired by D’Arcy Thompson, it uses parametric design to craft cam-driven mechanical lifeforms that pulse, sway, and vocalize—inviting a rethinking of human-ecosystem perception.
Daniel Iregui
NEST is a sound-focused digital artwork that changes the way we are used to experiencing interactive art. It is is the first p to use SONAR, our new sound location technology combining our proprietary tracking system and directional ultrasonic speakers.
Gabor Kitzinger
The dynamic spatial animation weaves psychological theories with dreamlike visuals, exploring the transformation of memory from fleeting impressions to lasting recollections. Rejecting singular truths, it reveals perceptual tricks—memories reimagined, not merely remembered.
Murphy Nile (Ziling Zhou)
Control Club is a game engine-powered immersive audiovisual experience. A circular matrix screen constructs a digital dystopia. Using engagement as a trap, it delivers a hypnotic, seamless immersion through rhythmic pacing, striking visuals, and addictive gratification.
Cody Lukas
Plato’s Prisoners is an immersive, interactive installation powered by the neural activity of cerebral organoids—lab-grown “mini-brains” cultivated from human stem cells.
Daniela Nedovescu
DEUTSCH / NICHT DEUTSCH playfully questions the boundaries of identity and belonging, handing over all decisions to artificial intelligence. The installation invites participants to undergo a process where biased AI models determine if they are 'German' or 'Not German'.
Piet Schmidt
A sensorial installation where subatomic particles affect when and how they reveal themselves to us. Three interconnected objects allow high energy particles to elicit moments of light and sound and to leave their traces in a cloud chamber.
u2p050
The installation Conspiracy Office of Faux Positif transforms visitors into conspiracy investigators within a fictional conspiracy investigation blending elements from Alternate Reality Games and Live Action Role-Playing to create immersive paranoid experiences.
Robert Walton
Flashover is a monumental, immersive artwork about wildfire, created from the memories of volunteer firefighters. It is a journey through a bespoke architectural and sonic environment staging six interrelated new animation works displayed across 14 screens.
Yuxuan Weng
InsectSync 2.0” is an experiential installation integrating insect compound vision and tracheal breathing rhythms. Inspired by diapause, it guides users to sense their disordered breathing under pressure and shifts them toward “pause–adaptation” via non-human regulation.
2025 Literature & Poetry Award Finalists
Jakub Koźniewski
Fake news from dawn to dusk. A concrete poetry object for an age of post-truth in form of 'augmented reality' sculpture, combining 3D-printed “sundial' gnomon and e-paper screen - displaying fake ray-traced shadow constructed from the latest fake news headlines.
Andreas Lutz
An artificial neural net was trained with all characters included in the Unicode Standard. The resulting AV installation is based on a real-time interpolation through this 'machine created semiotic system' and depicts the transformation into a trans-human / trans-machine language
Pham Phan Nhan
Our Vietnamese Project is a collective inquiry into Vietnamese language in the context of computational art. Revolving around the nature of monosyllabism, the project dives into the grassroots of our language―syllables, proving that Vietnamese is still, a living language.
Nathaniel Stern
Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies combines Artificial Intelligence with traditional artistic forms, in six poems-as-installations that explore the co-evolution of humanity and its technologies – from fire, language, and writing to automation and AI.
Sasha Stiles
WORDS BEYOND WORDS is an infinite poem that explores, expresses & embodies the evolving dialogue between language and technology, author and algorithm — powered by a custom generative system built to invoke an emergent AI poet & transform the browser window into a dynamic book.
赵昶然
This work explores linguistic evolution in interplanetary colonization. Using AI to simulate alien languages shaped by planetary conditions, it reflects on cultural diversity, communication barriers, and the future of human cognition in extreme environments.
Kian-Peng Ong
CLOUD SCRIPTS is a generative art installation exploring Daoist Cloud Seals (Yúnzhuàn 雲篆) as asemic communication with the spiritual world. Using a fine-tuned Gen AI model trained on Daoist scriptures, it generates talismans—machine-made letters to the unseen realm.
Wen New Atelier
The Miniscriber is a conceptual poetry synth: a physical machine that turns reader-viewers into word jockeys who can sample and sculpt words into digital, visual poems. A literary device that fosters a conceptual, critical, contemporary engagement with text.
2025 Nature & Climate Award Finalists
Louis-Paul Caron
Incendies is a metaphorical digital series, 32 physical and video artworks, where beauty and devastation collide. Between stillness and chaos, it reflects on our silent gaze upon a burning world. A quiet mirror of our disconnection in the age of collapse.
Andrey Chugunov
a space for encapsulation' explores Scotland’s coastlines through photogrammetry, generative sound, and poetic narrative, documenting hybrid assemblages of natural and industrial artefacts in transient zones impacted by rising sea levels.
Sofia Crespo
Palaeolithic cave painters depicted their ecosystem, most species of which are now extinct. Using ML, 3D printing, and robotics, ancestral art is re-visited through now-endangered species, questioning how technology shapes perception and what testimony endures through time.
Jeremy Kamal
“Mojo: The Floods” is an animated CGI short film, set in a fictional universe called Mojo. In a world where contemporary urban rituals shape natural systems, the film depicts a speculative ecology where a trap-producer controls an entire watershed through his mixing board.
Sissel Marie Tonn
The Sentinel Self is an interactive, simulation-based artwork that reflects on the entanglements between human immune systems and environments increasingly polluted by microplastics.
Cesar & Lois
Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado) is an artwork-as-ecosystem that performs the complex interactions across species that are the basis for a balanced planet. The work draws attention to the relationships between the planet's beings connected by hyphae and planetary respiration.
John Ingle
SURGE is a clarion call to restore our lost connection with water. Fusing performance, storytelling, audience participation and technology, it uses motion capture, VR, and LED screens to bring the spirit of this threatened force to life in a mesmerising, multi-sensory experience.
Entangled Others
‘Self-Contained' is the mutation of digital images as DNA: crossbreeding, mutating, and splicing random compressed fragments, as a way of exploring encoding/decoding information as image-making. The final mutating artwork into synthesized DNA, stored in a physical capsule,
Konstantine Vlasis
2124 is a data sonification work for percussive rudiment and glacier ice. Projection data that maps the future recession of the Breiðamerkurjökull outlet glacier in the coming century informs the ever increasing tempo of the piece.
Zhang Tianyi
Based on plant intelligence, the work recognizes the rights of plants, and repairs the deprived ecological connection of commercially bred crops with animals. It criticizes the alienation of ecology caused by anthropocentrism, advocating an equalist ecological relationship.
2025 Identity & Culture Award Finalists
Tiri Kananuruk
In a time of fear and deportations, Cumulus monitors the Mexico-US border, tracking clouds via NOAA satellites. Inspired by CubeSats, it contrasts shifting skies with rigid politics, revealing borders as invisible from above but deeply shaping lives below.
Amy Karle
A billion-year time capsule launched to the Moon and deep space, The Golden Archive preserves Earth’s DNA, knowledge, and culture, integrating data, AI and biological data to communicate with future intelligences and reflect on humanity’s identity across space and time.
Navid Navab
Organism is an investigative platform, revolving around a robotically-prepared historic pipe organ, that attunes us to the form-giving tendencies of kinetic chaos and the turbulent dynamics of sonic formation. It has two modes: one as an installation and another as a concert.
Linh My Truong
An embroidered map traces my family’s journey from Vietnam to America. In this interactive installation, touching metal beads reveals place-based stories. Light, memory, and gesture collapse time — private migration becomes collective witnessing.
Tengchao Zhou
Southern Wind Algorist is an avant-garde art installation that sings softly amidst the silence of pre-modern gay Chinese literature in the contemporary cultural landscape, remembering the historical existence of an underrepresented group of people.
Niceaunties
Site specific installation blending large scale fabric sculpture, digital projection and AI film, in response to the theme UN/settled: Migration+Movement, exploring cultural displacement and adaptation. AI film integrates AI characters-aunties into actual scenes at the site.
SPEKTRA
Scattered Scapes is an interactive installation that visualizes fragmented urban memories through generative particles and ambient sound. Viewers’ presence reshapes the flow, revealing the tension between collective experience and individual perception.