We are pleased to announce our 2026 theme for Electric Sky: SUPER NATURAL. Each year we orient our collaborative installations, workshops, and Saturday night art show around a theme. For 2026, with theme SUPER NATURAL we call on you to venture beyond the familiar, and explore what lies just beyond your human perception.
We ask artists, designers, and tech creatives to examine the space between nature and technology where imagination meets the unknown.
- How do we, as creatives, enhance or move beyond nature’s current capacities?
- How might we see, hear, or feel what lies beyond human perception?
- How might we find those mysterious entities at the edges of awareness, and make contact?
We encourage participation from interdisciplinary practitioners and groups at the intersections of art, design, technology and science, leveraging both technology and traditional arts in new and exciting ways in their creative process. Successful projects at Electric Sky have included light art, sound installations, kinetic sculptures, interactive tech, projection mapping, games, generative art, and creative coding, in addition to any more traditional arts that lend themselves towards outdoor installations in an evening art walk in a field, in the woods, or on the river.
As an ongoing theme spanning several years, we also seek to continue our path toward installations that are more ecologically resilient, and ask participants to integrate renewable energy into their projects where feasible.
How it Works
For our group show, we provide a basic framework around the theme, and then recruit artists, technologists, scientists, and designers to take on aspects of that theme, playing with technologically-infused, sensing, interactive and self-illuminated elements.
In the style of hackathons, you may bring your own piece to work on, you may join other emergent collaborations, or you may just show up to enjoy the show. Projects are shared during our Saturday night art show and party, which is open to the public.
Participating artists and technology creatives may include light, sound, video, performance, landscaping, architectural elements, in addition to visual art, however we encourage all projects incorporate an electronic, sensing, interactive, or self-illuminated component, to be experienced outdoors at night.
Art grants are available up to $500 for material project support and/or subsidized tickets, learn more here. The deadline is Friday May 1st, 2026.