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Interactive Initiatives takes over a water-front home with an immersive and interactive project for Interactive Playhouse at 2019 Art Fort Lauderdale Fair.
Interactive Initiatives takes over a water-front home with an immersive and interactive project for Interactive Playhouse at 2019 Art Fort Lauderdale Fair.
During Art Fort Lauderdale, Interactive Playhouse will take over an entire home with immersive projections, video, performance and interactive art by local and national contemporary artists. As visitors meander through the property, they will enter zones of artistic practice that will envelop the viewer and challenge their sense of perception and reality.
Using multiple projectors, whole rooms will be engulfed with audio and video projections by artists. Interactive first-person gaming-as-art projects will invite participants to navigate augmented and virtual worlds on their own. An interactive green screen installation will engage visitors with a range of psychedelic scenes and props. Hypnotic, candy colored videos will mesmerize and enchant.
Outside, facing the water and water taxi dock, special performances will be presented throughout the day including performative sculpture appearances and artist-made video game character interactions. Large-scale puppets will interact with visitors, comforting, questioning and providing company to those enjoying weather, arriving, departing and waiting for their transport. A transformative cosmetic salon experience will be presented with with interactive green screen activities.
A shop area will be set up on the ground floor featuring small artworks, clothing and merchandise produced by exhibiting artists.
Interactive Playhouse will be on view throughout the open hours of the Art Fort Lauderdale fair, with a special music/art performance featuring musicians *Afrobeta, presented in the closing party (*limited space ticketed event).
Using multiple projectors, whole rooms will be engulfed with audio and video projections by artists. Interactive first-person gaming-as-art projects will invite participants to navigate augmented and virtual worlds on their own. An interactive green screen installation will engage visitors with a range of psychedelic scenes and props. Hypnotic, candy colored videos will mesmerize and enchant.
Outside, facing the water and water taxi dock, special performances will be presented throughout the day including performative sculpture appearances and artist-made video game character interactions. Large-scale puppets will interact with visitors, comforting, questioning and providing company to those enjoying weather, arriving, departing and waiting for their transport. A transformative cosmetic salon experience will be presented with with interactive green screen activities.
A shop area will be set up on the ground floor featuring small artworks, clothing and merchandise produced by exhibiting artists.
Interactive Playhouse will be on view throughout the open hours of the Art Fort Lauderdale fair, with a special music/art performance featuring musicians *Afrobeta, presented in the closing party (*limited space ticketed event).
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Jen Stark
Jen Stark is an artist exploring the intricate layers of the natural world through patterns and color. Her work is inspired by infinity, topographical maps, fractals, mimetic topographies, and sacred geometries. Using available materials—paper, wood, metal, paint—Stark strives to make work that balances on a razor’s edge of optical seduction and perceptual engagement. |
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TM Sisters
TM Sisters are a Miami based sibling duo made of Tasha and Monica Lopez de Victoria, who collaborate in multi-media art works, video, installations, large scale murals, events, and performances. Inspired by the electro-tropical pulses of South Florida, the TM Sisters’ ongoing collaborations are theatrical, epic sagas that flow between mediums. |
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Jen Clay
Jen Clay is a multimedia artist based in South Florida. Her practice includes creating textiles, animations, wearable sculpture and large scale props for performance and video works that feed off of childhood sources of kids’ edu-tainment tropes, as well as psychological thrillers, horror and sci-fi film. |
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Leo Castaneda
Leo Castaneda is an artist working at the intersection of virtual reality, gaming, performance and interactive sculpture. Castaneda’s work deploys and deconstructs the socio-economic, racial, mythological and post-human anatomies embedded in the structure of video games |
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Samuel Lopez De Victoria
Samuel Lopez De Victoria is a Fort Lauderdale-based interactive and digital artist with a Masters of Fine Arts in the study of Art and Technology. In his practice he explores character studies, Norse mythology and family heritage with neon, hyper-vector illustrations that are then implemented into programmed interactive pieces. |
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Rosemarie Romero
Rosemarie Romero created her alter ego Porn Nails as a unique performative art piece which embodies the Miami aesthetic, feminism, female drag, excess, and sisterhood. She bonds with women while doing their nails at the same time listening to pop music, talking about sex and sharing dirty jokes. |
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Friends With You
FriendsWithYou is the fine art collaborative of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, working collectively since 2002 with the sole purpose of spreading the positive message of Magic, Luck, and Friendship™. Known for immersive installations and interactive artworks, FriendsWithYou invites viewers of their work to reconnect with and reinterpret their lives through communal experiences. |
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VIRGO
VIRGO is the electronic music project of Elizabeth Ann Clark, an audio/visual artist and game developer based in Miami, FL. As an artist/producer, her deep affinity for the cosmos and subterranean worlds seeps into multi-disciplinary and interactive projects. |
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Afrobeta
Miami natives Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio make up the electro afro-jazz, dance duo that is Afrobeta, Cuci on vocals, belting out tropical funk vibes, and Tony on the mixing board, bringing together afro funk and Gloria Estefan worthy beats. Afrobeta’s unique (and diverse) sound transcends genre classifications. Cuci’s rapid-fire delivery, combined with Smurphio’s funky synths and head bopping basslines keep moving from start to finish. |
