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 6th of April 2024 at the Gare Saint Sauveur in Lille, as part of the Video Mapping Festival #7.
In the evening, a Jury composed of mapping professionals awarded the best creations of 2023 during the closing ceremony of IBSIC. Discover the Prize List 2024 below!
The prizes are designed by ruestungsschmie.de and 3D printed by Future Campus Ruhr.
> More info about the Video Mapping Awards
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GRAND PRIZE
MehlWelten
URBANSCREEN / Germany / 2023 / Object video mapping / 5 min
Art director: Julian Hölscher
Music, sound design: Anders Wasserfall
Design of the kinetic wall: Carsten Falkenberg
Technical realization: LYNX Media Systems
Showing : MehlWelten Museum, Wittenburg, Germany – 1st of April 2023 (permanent exhibition)
MehlWelten is a video projection in combination with a kinetic sculpture. Flour processing in a modern mill is basically not visible, as all processes take place in a closed pipe system. This innovative didactic concept translates the processing steps from grain to refined flour into abstract images and conveys an idea of the efficiency of these modern facilities.
PRIZE FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN
ravensbeat
Jonas Denzel / Germany / 2023 / Monument video mapping / 9 min 47
Music, sound design: Sören Schaudel
Showing: Obertor, Ravensburg, Germany – 18th of August 2023 (10th anniversary of Museumsviertel Ravensburg)
ravensbeat is a projection not only visually based on the architecture of the Obertor but also in case of sound: the sound was recorded exclusively on the Obertor itself by knocking, clapping and wiping on the facade. Those field recordings were composed to a rousing beat. The work engages with the audience by inviting them to clap along to the rhythm within a call and response.
INNOVATION PRIZE
KONTEXT³
ruestungsschmie.de / Germany / 2023 / Monument video mapping / 10 min
Music, sound design: [adhoc]
Showing: Karl-Marx-Monument, Chemnitz, Germany – 25th to 28th of September 2023 (Light Our Vision Festival)
For the Chemnitz’s first Light Our Vision Festival, ruestungsschmie.de was entrusted with the historic SED Party building and the Karl-Marx-Monument. They created a two-part mapping that dissolves surfaces, revealing hidden contents and creating new visual axes and perspectives.
JURY SPECIAL MENTION
HAZIAK – SEMILLAS
Hartung | Trenz / Germany / 2023 / Monument video mapping / 12 min 31
Showing: Basque Parliament, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain – 9th to 11th of February 2023 (Umbra Festival)
Words like “empathy” – densely placed – form rings of light moving over the building. Countless letters flow out of these structures like plant seeds and interact with other circles. Expressions like “mindfulness” or “tolerance” form a reference and a claim to the use of the building, then as now.
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Video Mapping Awards pre-selection Jury:
• Ross Ashton – creative director, The Projection Studio (United Kingdom)
• Marko Bolković – director, Visualia Festival of Light (Croatia)
• Andrea Möller – director, Media Art Friesland / LUNA Festival (The Netherlands)
• Nika Perne – curator and producer (Slovenia)
Video Mapping Awards Jury:
• Anna Bacheva – artist (France)
• Karen Monid – sound artist and projection specialist (United Kingdom)
• Michael Naimark – artist, inventor and professor (USA)
• Lena Weisner – curator, EVI Lichtungen (Germany)
