Jury Competition 2026
Zhou Bo | Professor of Experimental Art & Light Art Expert
Zhou Bo is a professor and master tutor at the Experimental Art School of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, director of the Lighting Art Institute of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and chief curator of the Chongqing International Light Art Festival in China.
Furthermore, he serves as a member for the Chongqing Artists Association, as a committee member of the Indoor Lighting Professional and the editorial board of *Lighting Design* magazine and is on the committee of the China Illumination Society. Bo is also the executive director and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chongqing Illumination Society.
Ding Wei | Artist, Art Educator & Curator
Ding Wei is a faculty member of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, a member of the Chongqing Artists Association, director of the Chongqing Sculpture Society, and curator of the Third Chongqing International Light Art Festival.
He has presided over the planning and implementation of the large-scale public art project for the T3B Terminal of Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (China) in 2025 as well as the planning and implementation of the public art project for Chengdu Tianfu International Airport (China) in 2021.
His public artworks have been selected for the Beijing Exhibition of the 14th National Art Exhibition of China and awarded the second prize in the 9th Chongqing Art Exhibition.
Wei serves a long-term commitment to integrating art education with creative practice and cultivating numerous outstanding art talents. He is committed to the continuous exploration of innovative artistic expressions and promotion of art field development from diverse perspectives.
HYZ Studio | Lois He and Vio Zhu
HYZ Studio was one of the winners of last year’s competition. Lois He, a filmmaker and narrative designer, and Vio Zhu, a former software engineer at Google and Apple, co-founded HYZ Studio to explore the boundaries of storytelling and experience through technology.
Blending artistic direction with technical expertise, they create immersive experiences, interactive installations, live performances, and architectural projection mapping that bridge physical and virtual worlds. Their work has received international recognition, including the Best XR+ Project of the Year award at SXSW Sydney and a nomination for The Webby Awards, among others, and has been featured at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ARTECHOUSE NYC, La MaMa Gallery, CultureHub, the GEN-AI Summit, the CICA Museum, LVMH private event in Tokyo, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, and the New York Academy of Sciences. As a filmmaker, Lois's films have been shown at Cannes Rendez-Vous and Tallinn Black Nights, among others, and have received awards including the Agnès Varda First-Class Prize.
The Fox, The Folks | Multimedia artist collective
The Fox, The Folks was one of the winners of last year’s competition and is a multimedia artist collective based in Bandung, Indonesia. They specialize in visual storytelling through motion graphics and animation for projection mapping. Their work combines hand-drawn and stylized techniques to create visually distinctive pieces. Their creations have received international recognition and have been awarded prestigious prizes, such as both the Grand Prize and Audience Award at the 1Minute Projection Mapping competition in Tokyo, Japan in 2021, and the First Prize at the Schlosslichtspiele 2022 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Studio Zweisiedlerkrebs | Creative studio for audiovisual and interactive storytelling
Studio Zweisiedlerkrebs was also one of the winners of last year’s competition and were additionally awarded €5,000 from the jury. Founded by Elena Wiener and Josefine Maier, Studio Zweisiedlerkrebs is a creative studio for audiovisual and interactive storytelling. Whether it's film, interactive applications, or exhibitions – their work focuses not on the how, but on the why. Through their projects, they aim to strengthen democracy and diversity, amplify queer and feminist perspectives, and make historical contexts tangible.
Philipp Geist | Media artist
Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist works internationally in the fields of video and light installations, photography and painting. In 2013, Geist received the German Lighting Design Award in the Light Art category for his installation 'Time Drifts', which he presented at the Luminale 2012. His artworks and audiovisual performances have been exhibited internationally at various renowned festivals and art spaces. Geist's projects are characterised by their complexity, the inclusion of location, sound and moving images. In his video mapping installations, he avoids the use of screens, instead transforming various architectures into moving, painterly light sculptures that challenge the viewer's perception of two- and three-dimensionality.
Hendrik Wendler | Genius Loci Weimar, MXWendler
Hendrik Wendler studied architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and founded device+context, a software company that develops the MXWendler video mapping software package. Since 2004, these media servers have been illuminating clubs, theatres and façades all over the world. In 2012, he founded the artistic festival platform Genius Loci Weimar for the young art direction of video mapping.