Meet emerging artists at a marketplace showcasing research and practice from students at Goldsmiths, University of London and University of the Arts London, alongside innovators from Restless Egg's accelerator programme for founders and artists recognised by the global Lumen Prize: an annual award celebrating digital artists working with technology. Discover new projects, works-in-progress and experimental approaches to making.
The programme includes the UK launch of the Lumen Prize's Flagship Trend Report, the Liminal Review 2026, followed by a panel discussion exploring emerging themes in digital culture and creative practice today.
A performance lecture will offer a live exploration of how technology is reshaping artistic practice.
The day concludes with a fireside chat and cinematic demonstration exploring light and participatory practice in dialogue with the current Julio Le Parc exhibition. This is followed by the option to continue your evening with eclectic late-night sounds with DJ Bongo in the Corner.
Supported by Muse Frame
Artist Marketplace
11.00–14.00
Blavatnik Building, Level 5
Free
Discover a marketplace of emerging artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Experience virtual reality for wellbeing, multisensory installations and experimental projects, while learning about opportunities, prizes and open calls for artists working with emerging technologies.
Restless Egg Artist Founder Showcase
14.30–14.55
Starr Cinema
Free
Jack Self who will be sharing SRC, a platform for grasping the contemporary. This exists to help us all better understand our collective agency. Jack Self is an architect and technologist. He curated the 2016 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, is Editor-in-Chief of contemporary culture magazine Real Review and creator of SRC/Self Engineering
Eyez Li and Riven Chen, creators of HiddenFish who will present an interactive multiplayer simulator blending customized tech with experiential design. They explore cross-intelligent systems among humans and agents to nurture real connection in next-gen digital lives.
Nephila is a creative technology studio named after a species of orb-weaving spider, which also means "love of weaving". They build tools for collective cognition and special projects. They spent the last year building a social operating system (nephila OS) that turns the internet into a multiplayer game.
Glia who will share a memory composer built like friendship: holding space for what goes said and unsaid, letting in light so you can see yourself clearly. Glia's creator, Erica Hu makes tools for a more thoughtful and creative future.
You can also visit these artists in the Artist Marketplace
Panel Discussion
15.00–16.00
Starr Cinema
Free
Join us for the UK Launch of The Liminal Review: New Signals in Arts Technologies 2026. This panel discussion will draw out key themes emerging from this year’s research. These will reference finalists works and explore how artists are engaging with technologies including AI, immersive media and computational systems. The Lumen Prize’s flagship trend report charts the evolving landscape of contemporary art developed in active dialogue with and through technology.
The Liminal Review: New Signals in Arts Technologies is The Lumen Prize’s flagship trend report, charting the evolving landscape of contemporary art developed in active dialogue with and through technology. Informed by over 2,000 submissions from 70+ countries and developed in collaboration with leading cultural partners, the Review combines data-driven analysis with curatorial insight. It identifies key signals shaping how artists engage with emerging technologies, including AI and immersive media, while reflecting broader cultural, social, and creative shifts. Written by Rachel Falconer (Head of Creative Technology, Goldsmiths), the Review brings together voices from across the international art ecosystem and offers a critical framework for understanding where artistic practices engaging with technology are heading and why they matter.
Performance Lecture: Jennifer Walshe
16.30–17.30
Starr Cinema
Free
Discover how artificial intelligence is reshaping artistic practice in this live performance lecture by composer and artist Jennifer Walshe. Drawing on her project A Text Score Dataset 1.0: Into the Hidden Layers, Walshe unpacks how AI can be used to generate new text scores while exploring the creative, ethical and legal questions raised by these technologies. The event concludes with a collective vocal warm-up and the chance to perform one of the AI-generated works together in a meditative vocal drone.
Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans experimental music, performance, and digital culture. She is Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. Walshe’s work frequently engages with AI and post-human aesthetics.
CuteCircuit: Talk and Demo
18.30–20.00
Starr Cinema
£15 / £13 for Members / £5 for Tate Collective
Fireside chat and cinematic demonstration by pioneering fashion technology studio CuteCircuit (2025 Lumen Prize winner for Fashion and Design). This will explore light and participatory practice in dialogue with the current Julio Le Parc exhibition and the exhibition curator, moderated by writer, curator and editor Alex Estorick.
Virtual Reality Experience
11.00–17.30
Blavatnik Building, Level 4
Julio Le Parc and Juan Le Parc Virtual Reality Experience.
Please note this experience is limited to one person at a time.
