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Lumen Prize 2025 – Celebrating Art and Technology

The Lumen Prize is calling all artists engaging with technology to prepare their best work and enter the competition for 2025.

The Lumen Prize celebrates the very best art created with technology through a global competition.

These are the nine categories you may enter in 2025, each with a $2,000 prize. 50-75 artists will become finalists, whose work will then be reviewed and selected by the Jury Panel. Each year the Jury also selects one Gold Award Winner, who is determined to have created the best work across all categories. In 2025, the Gold Award Winner will be awarded $12,000.

Participation is open to individual artists, artist collectives, creative studios/practitioners, artist-designers and academic researchers/creative teams.

The 2025 competition categories include:

  • Still Image ($2,000) — Digital artworks in fixed form: photography, painting, illustration and AI-generated imagery
  • Moving Image ($2,000) — Time-based works including film, video art and animation
  • Performance & Music ($2,000) — Live and recorded works combining digital technology with performance, dance, sound and music
  • Fashion & Design ($2,000) — Innovative works across fashion, architecture, and product design using digital processes
  • Hybrid (Digital/Physical) ($2,000) — Artworks that co-exist in both the digital and physical spaces
  • Experiential ($2,000) — Interactive and/or immersive works including XR, installations, environments and light art
  • Literature & Poetry ($2,000) — Works exploring language and text through digital means
  • Nature & Climate ($2,000) — Works examining environmental themes and our relationship with the natural world
  • Identity & Culture ($2,000) — Works exploring personal and collective identity, heritage and cultural exchange

The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology competition is organized by Lumen Art Projects.

Since its launch in 2012, it has awarded more than $100,000 in prize money and created opportunities worldwide for the artists selected as finalists or winners. As a non-profit organization, we fundraise year round to cover prize awards and operating expenses.

Lumen Prize 2025 – Entry Fees

  • Early Bird (31 January 2025 — 28 February 2025): $30 per submission
  • Standard (1 March 2025 — 23 May 2025): $40 per submission