Lumen Prize Evening Artists In Conversation at EVA
Various Speakers

Summary

At the July 2024 Lumen Prize Evening Artists In Conversation at EVA, Various Speakers reflect on the prize's history and state of digital art. Carla Rapoport, the prize's founder, opens by tracing its growth from a simple print-and-USB exhibition to a complex showcase of interactive, augmented and three-dimensional work, and announces the forthcoming Lumen Studios space in London. Andy Lomas recounts his Gold Award-winning computational practice, from the biologically inspired Cellular Forms to recent plant, hybrid and 3D-printed series, and previews an interactive stereoscopic installation on early embryonic development made with Oxford researchers. Brendan Dawes describes his generative, data-driven work, including a Houdini cybersecurity commission, the JFK-inspired Frame 313, and AI as a visual tool and coding collaborator, while noting his gallery representation and a documentary with Gary Hustwit about Brian Eno. Thomson and Craighead survey their machine-vision projects, from surveillance-image archives and The Seeker to the Barbican commission Insuli, the Gold Award-winning horror film Uninvited, and the satellite-postcard work See You Soon. In the panel discussion that follows, the artists consider AI as subject and tool, how they sustain themselves through commissions, public funding, sales and representation, and the continuing challenge of asserting value and process in digital art.

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