Rencontres Audiovisuelles launched a call for participation at the end of 2025, open to international submissions, to professionals in mapping, audiovisual, animation, digital arts, graphic design, video games, etc. The candidates have been selected based on application files and present their work on the facade of the La Voix du Nord on the occasion of the Lille video mapping tour.
A Jury made of professionals have awarded a Grand Prize, a Jury Special Mention, and the public has chosen an Audience Prize by SMS vote.
Discover the Prize List 2025 below!
In addition to the 4 000€ grant for the creation, the 2 winners (Grand Prize and Audience Prize) receives a financial prize to propose a creation, one for the next edition of iMapp Bucharest (monetary prize offered by iMapp Bucharest), the other for the Lyon Festival of Lights (monetary prize of 4 000€ offered by Christie and ADC Production).
The prizes are designed by ruestungsschmie.de and 3D printed by Future Campus Ruhr.
GRAND PRIZE
Concurrent n°6
John Tettenborn & Kourtney Lara Ross (Germany)
▶︎ SPEC
The architectural surface of the building is the cage we want to break out of using abstract experimental video mapping techniques. The repetitive bassline defines the strict parameters in which we can operate and does not accommodate discomfort. The light of the projectors cannot penetrate the surface of the building, but the bass pushes the animations through, until at the end – the building is free.
Creation: John Tettenborn & Kourtney Lara Ross
AUDIENCE PRIZE
Concurrent n°3
Kubakub (Austria)
▶︎ Foreign_v2
Foreign_v2 treats the facade as a body fighting to integrate two souls. The building ruptures into a battle between Crystalline Purple memory and Molten Orange possibility. Using AI&3D-generated kitbashing, the architecture undergoes a hyper-accelerated evolution. From vertical disorientation to a stabilized gaze, the project reveals that identity is not static, but a permanent, beautiful state of flux.
Creation: Kubakub
Original music: Wiedenski & Kubakub
JURY SPECIAL MENTION
Concurrent n°1
Raphaëlle Martinez (France)
▶︎ La rubrique des pigeons
La rubrique des pigeons pays tribute to the people and birds who acted as messengers, whilst celebrating the newspapers once distributed illegally, as an allegory for the pigeons that delivered messages and news despite the prohibitions. As noble and popular symbols, these are precious stories from the North that tell of connection and mutual support. The mapping follows the journey of a pigeon setting off from La Voix du Nord, travelling through the countryside to a small town, where it delivers the news to the inhabitants.
Creation: Raphaëlle Martinez
Original music: Raphaëlle Martinez, Jaimeen Desai
Pre-selection Jury:
• Julian Hölscher – artist, studio julian hölscher (Germany)
• Antoine Manier – director, Rencontres Audiovisuelles (France)
• Lorenz Potthast – co-founder, Xenorama (Germany)
• Carole Purnelle – CEO, OCUBO (Portugal)
• Martina Stella – artist and researcher (Italy, France)
Jury:
• Chanpen Koolkaew – director and founder, Decidekit (Thailand)
• Julien Pavillard – director of events and animation, general coordinator of the Lyon Festival of Lights, City of Lyon (France)
• Svitlana Reinish – media artist, artistic director and stage designer (Ukraine)
• Tamás Vaspöri – CEO, Maxin10sity (Hungary)
• Irma Vilà i Òdena – curator (Spain)
