Featuring Future: Pathfinders of Digital Art

Lumen Prize 13th Anniversary Auction

Curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti

In partnership with Sotheby’s, the Lumen Prize proudly presents Featuring Future: Pathfinders of Digital Art, an auction that celebrates the creative potential of digital technologies through the visionary work of 15 pioneering artists. Curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti, this collection merges conceptual depth with technological innovation, presenting artworks that challenge, inspire, and transform our perception of art in the current age.

The auction underscores the rising significance of digital art as a critical force in contemporary culture, showcasing a diverse array of themes, including human-machine collaboration, algorithmic beauty, digital identity, and interactive experiences. These artworks demonstrate the transformative power of such approach, inviting audiences to engage with complex narratives and aesthetics emerging from the art + advanced technologies (AxAT) frontier. Through this auction, the Lumen Prize continues to honor and support artists who are reshaping the landscape of contemporary art, emphasizing the dynamic relationship between culture, technology and sociality that will outline the future.

Each work in this collection tackles key issues of our time, from questions of hybrid personae and the role of AI to sustainability and the impact of data on our perception of reality. The curatorial vision of Scalera and Cramerotti centers on the convergence of innovation and creativity. By selecting works that highlight the synergy between human ingenuity and technological advancement, mediated through a human-centered experience, the auction emphasizes the ways in which digital media foster new forms of interactivity, immersion, and connection. These pieces project a future where visual art is not merely observed but experienced, where images are more performative than representative, and ultimately where audiences are proactive not only in generating meaning but in fostering the next visual environment too.

Celebrating the Lumen Prize's 13th anniversary, Featuring Future is a milestone in its mission to elevate digital art globally. By merging artistry and technology, these 15 digital explorers illuminate the path forward, conjecturing that the limit between the digital and physical territories is continually questioned and revisited. This auction invites collectors and art enthusiasts alike to join and partake in this event, marking a special moment in the history and development of digital art.

Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti

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