VISITING EXPERT ON THE ABSURD 👽 assoc prof visual culture, meandering arts writer, thinking about digital culture, agency & always the absurd #SapereAude
Did you know that many Lumen Prize applicants are independent artists working outside traditional institutional systems?
Over 33% of submissions come from emerging artists with fewer than four years of experience, many of whom are independent and self-directed artists.
If you’re making meaningful work with technology, you do not need a gallery or museum backing to belong here.
The Prize is designed to support artists across a wide range of practices, approaches, and stages in their careers.
If your work engages thoughtfully with tech, there is a place for it here.
✨ $30,000 total prize pool
🏆 Three award categories
🌍 Global art prize
🗓️ Entries close May 23
🔗 https://t.co/OO4GWYHYkY
#LumenPrize #ArtistOpenCall #DigitalArt #ArtPrize #artandtechnology
PAINTER OF MACHINES | MILTOS MANETAS
The artist and provocateur (@Miltos) discusses contemporary art’s changing attitude to technology with app sculptor Damjanski (@Damjanski)
https://t.co/OqdlGXaZCZ
@eleonorabrizi Convos always better than silence❣️Little known fact➡️my 1st job was at Feminists for Free Expression, against censorship of any type in the 90s during the “porn wars” in the 🇺🇸 Offices donated by Penthouse where I went after school to file docs etc. My mom in full support RIP❤️🔥
Great piece by @TinaRiversRyan on TONO in Mexico City and the real engagement with art that she witnessed. For @Artforum about the artists whose works shone a bright light of possibility https://t.co/cSW5F7uyjM
Introducing The 2026 Lumen Prize International Selectors Committee (ISC)
Our International Selectors Committee reviews every submission, ensuring each work receives careful, fair assessment before a finalist shortlist is passed to the Jury Panel, which selects the category winners.
Please welcome:
✨ @knaack_nina
✨ @thefunnyguysnft@lerandomart
✨ @stinalinneag
✨ @museframe
✨ Sarah Ellis @rsc
✨ Doreen Ríos
✨ Elliott Burns @csm_news
✨ John Kenneth Paranada
✨ Lol Sargent
✨ @eileenonline_@fuserstudio
We are incredibly grateful to have their expertise and dedication for this year’s selection process.
Full list available here: https://t.co/vlauiEWCpc
list of @GoogleResearch's Artists + Machine Intelligence (AMI) Research Awards 2017–2024 (incl Rebecca Allen)
projects from academic faculty around the world showing a rich ecology of "ai art"
What is drawing? Been musing on it since invited to speak by @carlagannis & sketched some difficulties on its seeming obviousness for @TheBrooklynRail …no time/space to get into plotter drawings but that’s why back to the drawing board I always go 😉https://t.co/2rqNtQ05AX
We also produced an amazing book-catalog with @aperturefnd. Designed by, Venezuelan designer Ricardo Baez with texts by Shana Lopes, Tatiana Bilbao, Horacio Fernandez and Alvaro Enrigue, and an interview with @Lucy2Scribbles
Call for Entries closes May 23
If you're an artist experimenting with technology in your practice, then this is your moment to apply.
✨ $30,000 total prize pool
🏆 Three award categories
🌍 Global art prize
📣 Wider artist opportunities
🗓️ Entries close May 23
🔗 https://t.co/KbOrDxJEzu
Featured artist: @fuse_works
#LumenPrize #ArtistOpenCall #DigitalArt #ArtPrize #ArtCompetition
@KBStudioNYC@ArtReview_ There’s good work on this in the luxury markets; here, I was less concerned w addressing provenance (which museums have historically helped buttress) than thinking through why/how museums serve as the ne plus ultra for display & whether that recontextualizes a practice
Wrote a thing for @ArtReview_ about digital art and museums, and why “museums can’t represent the only context for evaluating the significance of these practices, or an artist working with these types of technologies” 😉 even if we all love museums🎭
https://t.co/9bYZyUf0VN
This is great
I argued something complimentary in the alignDRAW book, that if you don’t know what arXiv is you very likely can’t fully comprehend the last 5 years of digital culture
I read this great article by Charlotte this morning and it pulls so much into focus on why the intersection of art and technology is hard to contextualise.
What does ‘digital’ art actually mean? Who defines value? And what can institutions learn?