2024 VIDEO MAPPING DATA ANALYSIS 视频绘图数据分析

In 2018, I created a Facebook group to foster an artistic community of video mapping artists and share festivals opportunities.
Each year, I analyze the results of video mapping contests and competitions worldwide. Here's the review for 2024 !

2024

We are now over 4,901 members part of this informal "video mapping" artistic community on the Facebook group LIST OF INTERNATIONAL VIDEO MAPPING OPEN CALL & CONTEST 2024. This community is strengthened with meetings at some festivals... where names become friendships.

In 2024, 35 organizations shared their information compared to 24 in 2023. Artists had the chance to participate in 18 video mapping contests organized in the world. We noticed that several festivals are now opted for an open call with a direct selection of artists (who are therefore paid for their work). This was the case with Zsolnay Fényfesztivál (Tamás Zádor) and the new Light Up Gwanghwamun in Seoul (Yohan Han) with a hybrid selection.

New festivals

While the majority of festivals take place in Europe, particularly in Germany, France, and Poland, several festivals in the USA have joined the group under the open call format (welcome: Let’s Glow Festival (Sean Mason), Digital Graffiti (John Colette), Blink (Josh Heuser), Illuminated Visions (Kati Angelov), LUMA festival with their open call for the Small Works category (Joshua Bernard Ludzki)). There is also a new great festival Luz de Antigua in the beautiful city of Antigua in Guatemala ( Willy Posadas ) which led to the emergence of new local artists such as Plaga studio ( Alejandro Campollo ) or Chesco Lab.

We also note the rise of three major competitions in China, with the gigantic third edition of Chongqing Light Festival, the second edition of Shining Shanghai Light Festival, and a newcomer in Yifeng. The video platform Manamana ( Petra Věchtová ) serves as a great relay for these festivals.

Additionally, we see the continuity of some competitions like Dublin Light Festival ( Tom Rohan ) with a double contest, Lunar in Bulgaria (MP-STUDIO), SSAmapping ( in Brasil and Mapsion in Finland ( Niko Tiainen ).

Contests results from Asia ...

The results of the competitions highlight certain trends. We see the strong vitality of Asian artists, especially Indonesians (Eltria, Ismoyo R Adhi and Fanikini, The Fox The Folks (Fadjar Kurnia), Firman M. ) and Chinese artists, who are very active in local competitions (CTC Lab, Depicting Territory). We should also note the victory of Japanese artist Kentaro Tanaka at the 1minute-PM ( Michiyuki Ishita), one of the oldest competitions still in activity. Another veteran, the Genius Loci Weimar (Hendrik Wendler), continues to promote three selected artists through a competition.

... To Germany

Germany seems to provide an ecosystem conducive to artistic development. German artists swept most of the mapping awards at the recent IBSIC meeting by Rencontres Audiovisuelles ( Antoine MANIER ) winning the Grand Prize for Julian Hölscher , the Sound Design award for Sören Schaudel on the Jonas Denzel’s project, the Innovation Prize for Ruestungsschmie.de (philip modest schambelan Michał Banisch), and a Special Mention for Detlef Hartung. Additionally, Dirk Rauscher won both of audience and jury awards in Lille’s mapping contest and the audience during IMAPP’s Winners League (Tamás Vaspöri) won by Hungarian Ivó Kovács.

Lastly, John Tettenborn, in partnership with American Kourtney Ross, is also a standout in several competition results, praised for their technical mastery.

This reminds us of the German dominance in 2021 when various artists won five of the annual contests.

About the jury

When asked whether there’s a similarity in the results, statistics show that outcomes vary significantly each year. While some names reappear, this more reflects their talent and capacity for innovation and experimentation. No artist won two competitions this year and 45 were able to receive a distinction, showing the diversity of results.

Since the implementation of the IMAPP Winners League concept, there has been regular collaboration among directors of the participating festivals, who frequently serve as jurors for the five major competitions (1minPM, Video Mapping Festival, Zsolnay light art, Genius Loci Weimar, and now, Chongqing light festival as a new partner). Of course, their expertise often leads to invitations to other competitions.

However a renewal of juries would be an interesting evolution by integrating art critics specializing in digital art and media journalists. The creation of specialized press for video mapping to comment on results and analyze trends seems essential for consolidating the structuring of the video mapping field.

Best of 2024

Julian Hölscher - Fête des lumières 2024, France

The most striking image of 2024 might be Julian Hölscher's precise and innovative mapping on the iconic building of Saint Jean Cathedral during La fête des lumieres de Lyon.

There is also the masterful use of AI combined with lasers by the Spanish duo VPM (Javier Canal Joan Nieto Paulo ) is also very intriguing, particularly in their project on the catedral de Notre Dame de la Treille during the Video mapping festival in Lille.

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I would like to remind that the list of competitions, festivals or mapping projects, is not exhaustive on this Facebook group. Many opportunities remain to be discovered deep within the web. Other opportunities are aimed only at students, such as the León Light Fest in Mexico or the Fête des Images in France.

I'd like to thank the festivals for offering these opportunities to experiment and discover both new and established talents... and a special thanks to those inviting the artists, transforming the competition into a meeting place.

Some informations are based on a previous article published in the book Image Beyond the Screen.

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