Each year we orient our collaborative installations, workshops, and Saturday night art show around a theme. We are pleased to announce for 2024 our theme is MOVIN’ IT — inviting participants to explore kinetic energy as a creative inspiration.
Whether gears or motors, wind or water, digital animation, dance or play — movement brings art to life as materials are transformed over space and time. For 2025, we encourage artists, technologists, designers, makers and builders to play with movement itself as a creative medium.
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 were available to $500 for material project support or subsidized tickets, learn more here. The deadline is Friday April 4, 2025.
