Every year, the Video Mapping Festival offers a video mapping competition to reward the best productions of the year. The video mapping selected during a pre-selection were presented to the public in the form of video recordings on Saturday 5th of April 2025 at the Flow (Lille), as part of the Video Mapping Festival #8.
In the evening, a Jury composed of mapping professionals awarded the best creations of 2024 during the closing ceremony of IBSIC.
Discover the Prize List below!
The prizes are designed by ruestungsschmie.de and 3D printed by Future Campus Ruhr; the Grand Prize will be awarded an EF-22N projector by EPSON France.
> More info about the Video Mapping Awards
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GRAND PRIZE
Radiant
Filip Roca / Montenegro / 2024 / Monumental mapping / 4 min
Music, sound design: Zarko Komar
Showing: Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Lights 2024)
Radiant explores how light rays scatter from an object. Light is invisible to the human eye until it collides with an object. What we see is the impact of the light on a surface. The facade of the Memorial Picture Gallery in Tokyo becomes the canvas for this interaction. The play of light on the building creates new dimensions and changes how we perceive its otherwise ordinary appearance.
PRIZE FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN
Ghostpoets
mammasONica – Luca Pulvirenti / Italy / 2024 / Monumental mapping / 15 min
Music, sound design: Giancarlo Trimarchi
Showing: Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar, Germany (Genius Loci Weimar 2024)
Ghostpoets is an A/V luminous installation that transforms the seven stelae of the Buchenwald Memorial, silent witnesses to history’s inhumanity, into a vivid exploration of trauma and healing radiating along a path extending over 200m of the memorial site. Ghostpoets aims not only to present what the stelae depict, but also to uncover what remains unshown or even concealed.
INNOVATION PRIZE
DIYAUTO ORCHESTRA
Simon Lazarus 84 / France / 2024 / Mapping live / 1 min 08
Music, sound design: S8jfou
Showing: Chapel of the Andrettes, Aix-en-Provence, France (Biennale Chroniques 2024)
DIYAUTO ORCHESTRA (di-yo-to or-kes-tra) is an immersive installation project led by visual artist Simon Lazarus, featuring musician S8jfou and creative coder Clara Rigaud. It consists of a real-time generated audio-video fresco and an archipelago of mini sculpture-instruments – combining electronics, fossil materials, bioplastics, and mushroom mycelium – which allow the public to interact with both image and sound. The idea is to create a dialogue between living objects (microorganisms) and living programs (generative code).
PRIZE FOR BEST IMMERSIVE WORK
Déclic
Morgane Philippe / France / 2024 / Monumental mapping / 5 min 30
Sound design: Morgane Philippe
Showing: Place des Vosges, Épinal, France (Fête des Images d’Épinal, Les Imaginales Festival 2024)
Every day, the routine repeats itself and settles in. We wake up, spend hours commuting, our day behind a desk, stimulated by thousands of messages, tasks, and notifications. We go home, and start again. Subway, work, sleep, and repeat. Until we remember that we have only one life, and maybe, that a change is necessary? It doesn’t take much, just a vision of new horizons: a change of pace, of scenery, new encounters?
EMERGING ARTIST PRIZE
Futura. Fortuna. Libertas.
Liudmila Siewerski / Germany / 2024 / Monumental mapping / 5 min 20
Music, sound design: Marisol Jiménez
Showing: G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany (Leipzig Festival of Light 2024)
The project invites individuals from all walks of life to share their dreams, visions, and interpretations of democracy and freedom. These diverse voices are merged into a hybrid text, interwoven with evocative sounds and visual elements, creating a poetic collage. Key motifs from the statements are visually interpreted and enhanced with 3D components, forming an intricate audiovisual composition that connects the past with the future. Inspired by the moiré effect – where overlapping patterns generate dynamic interactions – the work reflects the serendipitous convergence of events leading to the Peaceful Revolution. This principle guides the fusion of diverse elements, evoking the harmony born of complexity.
The project’s core is a collage of image and sound, blending techniques such as 3D and 2D graphics, generative and procedural processes, reportage and interviews.
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Video Mapping Awards pre-selection Jury:
• Bettina Pelz – curator, Studio Bettina Pelz (Germany)
• Lorenz Potthast – co-founder, Xenorama (Germany)
• Carole Purnelle – CEO, OCUBO (Portugal)
• Robert Seidel – artist, Studio Robert Seidel (Germany)
Video Mapping Awards Jury:
• Mihaela Păun – director, ARCUB – Cultural Center of Bucharest (Romania)
• Ruby-Maude Rioux – generative artist, immersive and interactive experience director (Canada)
• Daniel Rossa – new media artist, Studio Rossa (Germany)
• Robert Sochacki – associate professor, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (Poland)
• Nina Wlodarczyk – Schlosslichtspiele curatorial project leader, ZKM (Germany)
