Best Individualized Experience
Crayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition
Mad Systems Inc.

This sprawling 17,000-square-foot interactive experience that premiered at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute in early 2021 marked the Crayola brand’s first-ever traveling exhibition, which focuses on tapping into the ingenuity of its participants.

Best Individualized Experience
Crayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition
Mad Systems Inc.

Upon entering the exhibition, visitors choose an avatar and scan their RFID wristband to capture their interactions throughout the 25-plus exhibits for a personalized experience.

Best Individualized Experience
Crayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition
Mad Systems Inc.

Participants can answer questions, collect badges, create solutions and solve challenges that showcase their creative style.

Best Immersive Experience
The Omega Mart Experience
Barbizon Lighting Company

Located in the Area15 complex in Las Vegas, Omega Mart is an interactive art installation that begins in what is ostensibly a supermarket.

Best Immersive Experience
The Omega Mart Experience
Barbizon Lighting Company

The experience was created by Meow Wolf, a New Mexico-based arts and entertainment company, and features contributions from more than 300 artists.

Best Immersive Experience
The Omega Mart Experience
Barbizon Lighting Company

From the supermarket space, the experience leads to a network of media-rich spaces and storytelling that serves as a commentary on consumerism and corporate culture. The adventure is open-ended and self-guided.

Best In-Person Experience
Grandscape, A Mixed-Use Retail Development
Electrosonic

Grandscape, built on more than 400 acres in Dallas, TX, features entertainment, restaurants, and residential and office space.

Best In-Person Experience
Grandscape, A Mixed-Use Retail Development
Electrosonic

A 43-foot tower made up of 4000 LED video tiles serves as one of the central design elements.

Best In-Person Experience
Grandscape, A Mixed-Use Retail Development
Electrosonic

Electrosonic and Barnycz Group collaborated to design and integrate engaging multimedia displays that inform and entertain Grandscape’s visitors.

Best Flexible Space Experience
Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre
Eos Lightmedia

Eos Lightmedia helped transform the Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre into a flexible space through the integration of interactive panels, projection mapping surfaces, digital informational kiosks and broadcast-quality equipment.

Best Flexible Space Experience
Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre
Eos Lightmedia

The center serves multiple arms of the Port Authority, offering a space for town hall meetings and other events.

Best Dynamic Art Experience
Light Up the Night: Brightening Your Day in Dark Times
Sharp NEC Display Solutions of America Inc.

In the spring of 2020, LuminArtz teamed up with Pamela Hersch, a local video artist and technologist, to create “Light Up the Night” at the Wenham Museum in Massachusetts. The team created a 30-minute projection mapping exhibit on the exterior of the museum, featuring visuals celebrating childhood, connecting generations and honoring heritage. The exhibit was powered by Sharp NEC Display laser projectors, and while each projector provided 10,000 lumens, the outdoor nature of the project required an even higher level of brightness. This was achieved through a stacking configuration, which allowed three projectors to focus on the same area to increase the brightness of the image.

Best Collaborative Experience
HAKO
BARTKRESA studio

BARTKRESA studio created an 8-foot, cube-shaped sculpture that artists could projection-map as part of a socially distant, projection arts festival.

Best Collaborative Experience
HAKO
BARTKRESA studio

The studio held a seven-week virtual workshop with 50 participants from 18 countries to create the content for the animated show for the sculpture Hako. During the remote video workshops, BARTKRESA studio utilized virtual backgrounds as one of the methods through which participants could collaborate. The participants prepared their virtual backgrounds by using their designs of Hako. The result was a transformation of Hako into a 360-degree, projection-mapped art piece that showed a simple shape in new, inspired ways.