VIDEO MAPPING AWARDS – Prize List 2026

Magicstreet – Antoine Goldschmidt, Florian Guibert / Belgium / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min
Music, sound design: Margaret Hermant, Fabien Leseure, Pierre Dozin
Showing: Horta-Lambeaux Pavilion – Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels, Belgium (Bright Brussels Festival)

Passions Humaines uses mapping to interact with the monumental high relief by sculptor Jef Lambeaux. The work explores the connection, coexistence, and dialogue between classical and digital art forms.
The bodies carved from Carrara marble are gradually revealed and come to life in an intense composition that transforms and transcends the audience’s view of our Human Passions.

Daniel Rossa / Germany / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min 48
Music, sound design: Tibslc
Showing: RBA, Barcelona, Spain (Llum BCN)

Metatecture is a site-specific audiovisual intervention that enables the building to reflect on its own means of architectural construction through dreamlike sequences. Using the façade’s sun-blind system as both subject and instrument, immersion is deliberately disrupted to expose the tools, layers, and artificial nature of the staging itself.

Lukas Taido / Germany / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 8 min 44
Music, sound design: Lukas Taido
Showing: Volksbank building, Leipzig, Germany (Leipzig Festival of Lights)

When opposing a totalitarian regime, the first step is to make yourself visible. But by doing so, the protesters in East-Germany 1989 found themselves in the crosshairs of the SED surveillance state. Yet, more and more people dared to open their window curtains, appear in the streets, and finally, to light candles-symbol of the peaceful revolution

Simon Lazarus 84 / France / 2025 / Immersive mapping / 3 min 45
Music, sound design: s8jfou
Showing: Trinitarian Cloister, Metz, France (Constellations de Metz)

The sun rises over the convent: a herd of colorful paintings floats there in complete tranquility, sheltered behind a curious mesh that evokes a zoo enclosure, a clockwork mechanism and a mixing desk.
This mechanism comes to life and seems to have an impact on the fauna, the flora and the landscape in the background.
Like a remote control, it alters the hues, the direction of reading, or the brightness of the video elements, and produces musical notes that interact with the panorama. At the beginning, the horizon evolves at its own pace in perfect serenity; the grid, like a well-oiled mechanism, plays along with it, setting the rhythm of the decor. But the control system triggers a reaction from the landscape that in turn disrupts the grid and opens Pandora’s box.
NEVER TRUST HAL 9000 is a story about grids, tools, control and structure. About harmony and disorder, poetry in dissonance and balance in mayhem. About joyfully watching a system gone crazy slowly falling down.
“Man makes plans, God laughs.” (Yiddish proverb)

David Espitia, Feno Dias / Colombia, Portugal / 2025 / Mapping on object / 4 min 05
Music, sound design: María Juliana González Silva
Showing: Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal

A body that hurts is a video installation conceived out of a request from the body to be fully involved in the task of animation. The mechanical nature of the work leads to the neglect of the body, causing pain, fatigue, and discomfort. Through repetitive actions, grotesque sound and the use of different hands-on techniques, the video explores the decaying body as an operator rather than a creator, reflecting the lack of attention put into the flesh during labor.