Lumen Prize: Adventures in Digital Art used the latest technology to enable audiences to see the world differently. It was a partnership exhibition curated with Contains Art.

The Lumen Prize is awarded annually and celebrates the very best art being created with technology today through a global competition, exhibitions and events worldwide.

The selected works in the exhibition featured interactive and immersive digital artworks by three international artists previously selected for The Lumen Prize.

It was important to us in our brief to Lumen Prize that these works should explore what is social and collaborative about digital, celebrating the value of such experiences.

The Lumen Prize shows was one of the most rewarding shows we’ve ever put on in terms of engaging with new audiences. We hosted hundreds of school children,  many of whom came back again and again with their families over the following weeks. A local mum told us that her daughter has pronounced the day of their visit to the Lumen show to have been ‘the best day of school I’ve ever had’.

The exhibition captured the strength of new technologies, art, participation and spectacle.

Building on the success of our partnership with the Lumen Prize in 2018, we decided to jointly commission a digital artists with them in 2019. The brief asked for submissions for a multisite, interactive, networked installation in a series of locations around the town. Laura Dekker's subsequent work, which explores the interplay of nature and technology through human intervention, was placed in locations including at Contains Art, Andrew’s Fish and Chip Shop on Liddymore Road, Albert’s ‘Ardware on Swain Street and Pebbles Tavern on Market Street.

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