BEGINNINGS artistic series of Eva Iszoro/ ACCIDENTAL CUTTING longlisted at the THE LUMEN PRIZE 2023 awards

2023 Lumen Prize Longlist
The 2023 Lumen Prize Longlist of 70 works was selected from over 1600 entries across 52 different countries. The works represent media, themes, and innovations spanning contemporary artistic, technological, and cultural contexts. The founder, Carla Rapoport, comments on this year’s longlist: “If you want to see what’s happening right now in digital art, don’t look any further. This year’s longlist has it all. A browse through these works and be transported on a journey unlike any other.”

The artistic series “Beginnings” of Eva Iszoro/ ACCIDENTAL CUTTING is one of the longlisted artworks in the category of Still Image. In this edition the Jury is composed by: Ruth Catlow, Co-Director of Furtherfield, Adjunct Curator Digital Art at Whitney Museum of American Art; Meanie Lenz, Digital Curator at Victoria & Albert Museum; Kate Gu, Producer, Digital Special Projects at M+ Hong Kong; Boris Magrini, Curator Hek Basel; Nathan Ladd, Assistant Curator, Tate Britain.

Artwork description
“Beginnings” (2023) is a triptych that belongs to more extended artistic series, of virtual 3D textile models generated through random, accidental, and abstract cuts and flat patterns, applying the Accidental Cutting experimental pattern cutting method, intellectual property of Eva Iszoro, founded and described at her PhD thesis, and awarded with Extraordinary Prize of The Polytechnic University in Madrid.

The method is focused on obtaining unexpected and non-existent until now volumetric results, so the main goal is to face and discover the non-existent through totally experimental processes, which can have deeper conceptual meanings transcending the three-dimensional volumes themselves.

In this artwork, it is intended to convey the sensation of something new being born as initial embryonic growth, worrying and perturbing at the same time. The volume and the texture admit different meanings that can be pleasant and positive or generate rejection in the viewer.

ACCIDENTAL CUTTING/ Eva Iszoro:
ACCIDENTAL CUTTING is a fashion brand, presenting virtual collections at London Fashion Week,  and an experimental pattern cutting method, created by Eva Iszoro. The method is focused on finding original and non-existent volumes through random and accidental abstract patterns.

Since 2020, Eva Iszoro has explored virtual reality as a means of creating and communicating fashion, and of generating digital artworks.