Exhibitions and Events

Upcoming Exhibitions and Events


	Welcome, Robot Overlords Party! Friday, February 2nd 2018 We are excited to celebrate the closing of our Attacks from Mars installation with a party! Join us Friday, Feb 2nd 8pm-2pm at Vermillion (1508 11th Avenue) We’ve invited some of our favorite dance DJs to play, including DJs Recess, Diem and Felix Feral. We need to make room for our new art by getting rid of the old, so we will be hosting a silent auction for pieces from our Attack from Mars installation. Now’s your chance to take home some really cool art! Check out the art we will be selling at the auction. Learn more about the party here
	Attacks from Mars, We Welcome our Robot Overlords! December 14th 2017-February 5th 2018 An art installation in the Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar In the age of digital media, there’s a renewed nostalgia for the kinetic, sensory bumps and clicks of mechanical machines, as exemplified by the resurgent popularity of pinball games here in the Pacific Northwest. Using pinball as a metaphor, this art installation examines our relationship with technology, where you are the ball in a large-scale, immersive playfield. Attacks from Mars was originally conceived and implemented as a three-year installation at Burning Man from 2015-2017, now adapted for this show at the Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar. Learn more.
	Electric Sky and The Digital Frontier June 22-24, 2018 (tentative), Skykomish WA For the fourth year we are hosting a weekend artists retreat in collaboration with Third Place Technologies near the mountain town of Skykomish, WA. We will be organizing a large group installation at Electric Sky called the Digital Frontier. Learn more.
	Cyberbot Wars: Shall We Play a Game? Aug 2018, Burning Man A game-like experience illustrates how information bots are used to influence world events. In passive mode, an LED animation on a giant map shows the friendly globalization of the burner community over time. In game mode, it is war, and people protect or attack countries with cyberbots. Learn more.

Past Exhibitions and Events


	The Wondering Woods, Arts-a-Glow September 2017 We installed The Wondering Woods at the annual light festival held in Burien WA. Learn more.
	Attacks from Mars, Burning Man August-September 2017 For the third and final year we brought Attacks from Mars, our giant roaming pinball machine with an animated LED playfield, to Burning Man. This year we added interactive components to our animated LED Playfield. Learn more.
	The Wondering Woods, Lusio September 2017 We installed The Wondering Woods at Lusio, a one day light art event in Volunteer Park, Seattle. Learn more.
	Electric Sky and the Wondering Woods June 9-11, 2017, Skykomish WA For the third year in a row, we hosted a weekend artists retreat and hackathon in collaboration with Third Place Technologies near the mountain town of Skykomish, WA. Thanks in part to a 4Culture grant we organized a large group installation called the Wondering Woods. Learn more.
	The Luminous Garden V2 and Pop-up Maker Space, Maloney Store, Skykomish WA February-March 2017 We brought the winter version of our Luminous Garden installation for a one month show in the historic Maloney Store in Skykomish, WA. As a part of this exhibition we created a pop-up maker space and provided an informal artists-in-residence program to enable ongoing development and exhibition of new work. Through the maker space we also engaged with the local community, including an LED workshop for local middle and high school students. Learn more.
	The Luminous Garden V2 – Winter, Vermillion December 2016-February 2017 We brought the winter version of our Luminous Garden installation for a two month show to Seattle WA. Learn more.
	The Luminous Garden, Arts-a-Glow September 2016 We installed the Luminous Garden for an annual light festival held in Burien WA. Learn more.
	Attacks from Mars, Burning Man August-September 2016 For the second year we brought Attacks from Mars, our giant roaming pinball machine with an animated LED playfield, to Burning Man. This year we improved our nighttime lighting experience for greater impact from a distance. Learn more.
	The Luminous Garden, at Lusio August 2016 We installed the Luminous Garden for Lusio, a light art festival in Volunteer Park in Seattle WA. Learn more.
	Electric Sky and the Luminous Garden June 2016 For the second year in a row, we hosted Electric Sky, a weekend artists retreat and hackathon in collaboration with Third Place Technologies near the mountain town of Skykomish, WA. Thanks in part to a 4Culture grant we organized our creative efforts around large group installation called the Luminous Garden. Learn more.
	Skykomish Hotel and the Blue Lady December 2015 – February 2016 To celebrate the historic Skykomish Hotel’s renovations and bring light to the town during its long winter nights, we worked with locals to install LED color washes in the same style as we had done the previous year on the Skykomish Bridge. Funded in part by the Town of Skykomish. In addition to installing the lights, in honor of the hotel’s checkered history we also installed the Blue Lady ghost. Learn more.
	Bridge Project Year 2 December 2015 – February 2016 For the second year, we installed an interactive lighting project on the Skykomish bridge, to help light it up for the winter months. As people drive over the bridge, their cars are detected with a sonic range finder and the lights chase along with them. Learn more.
	Attacks from Mars, Burning Man August-September 2015 We brought Attacks from Mars, our giant roaming pinball machine with an animated LED playfield, to Burning Man. Learn more.
	Electric Sky June 2015 We hosted our first Electric Sky, a weekend artists retreat and hackathon in collaboration with Third Place Technologies near the mountain town of Skykomish, WA. Learn more.
	Bridge Project December 2014 – February 2015 We installed an interactive lighting project on the Skykomish bridge, to help light it up for the winter months. As people drive over the bridge, their cars are detected with a sonic range finder and the lights chase along with them. Learn more.
	Zymphonic Wormhole at Burning Man August-September 2014 The Zymphonic Wormhole was a large-scale collaborative installation created to simulate the experience of passing through a galactic wormhole. The Zymphonic Wormhole was a Burning Man 2014 honorarium art installation where we used a zipline passing through a shell of ropes woven to form catenary curves — with interactive sound and lighting — to create the experience. Funded in part by Burning Man. Learn more.
	Cloud City at Burning Man June 2014 and June 2013 Cloud City was a mutant vehicle transformed into a giant cloud with a small temple on top, designed to resemble the Roman and Greek gods of Mt. Olympus. Learn more.
	Lasik Lounge at SeaCompression October 2013 Using over 30 lasers with thousands of laser points each, we converted a room into a Lasik Lounge for SeaCompression 2013. Learn more.
	Cylon Space Needle March 2012 For a fundraising party Sattelite at the Space Needle, raising money for Shunpike and the Genius Awards, we installed 60 feet of controllable animated LEDs to simulate the experience of a Cylon’s eyes in the Space Needle. Learn more.
	Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D. at Burning Man August-September 2009 Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D. was a 35 foot, interactive, collaborative installation that allowed people to create sound together, using video sensors to collect people’s motion and interactively generate music, voices and lasers. Funded in part by Burning Man. Learn more.