Art & Artists
Art is self-expression, so everyone is an artist in some form. InterFuse gives artists the unique opportunity to display art that is too large, too strange, too abstract or thought provoking to display at many other venues. InterFuse is also a perfect occasion to debut art that isn’t well known or is deeply personal. Midwest Burners encourages people to share their art, especially interactive art, with everyone at InterFuse.
Neither Midwest Burners nor Ozark Avalon can be held responsible for damaged art. While everyone looks out for one another, artists are ultimately responsible for the safety of their art at InterFuse. As an artist, you should consider lighting your art so that people don't stumble over it in the dark, damaging themselves and your work.
The Art List
Listed in order of registration date. Get your art listed using the form at bottom.
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Burn Panorama Photo Prints |
Brandon |
A pair of 15" x 60" color prints taken after the main burn and before the dancing, one from InterFuse 2006 and one from InterFuse 2007. |
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The Giving Tree |
FD |
Under the tree near the Community Meadows water spigot |
Leave something. Take something. It's all up to you. Back by popular demand, The Giving Tree embraces the gift culture and promotes the re-use of consumer goods by connecting your unwanted possessions with new and grateful owners. Go through your skeleton closets, look under the bed, scour dusty book shelves, or sort through all the crap layered in the garage. Costume pieces? A Lionel Richie CD accompanied by ear plugs? Cherry Pop Rocks? What have you got? You may no longer want it, but someone else does. Bring it!! |
Gateway to the Future |
Rhino |
Standing over 20' in height, this semi-replica of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is meant as a reminder to all of the gateways that we face in life, and the choices that we experience. This art piece is intended to be fully lit at night, telling us that gateways have no time preferences. We will have a permanently constructed box for you to insert your gateway statements of choices you face and how you want to face those choices. At that point, you will be asked to cross under the arch as a statement of faith in yourself in making the choice, and crossing the gateway to the future. The box will travel, ALONG WITH THE ARCH, the 1700+ miles this August to the Black Rock playa, for inclusion as part of the Temple of Community to be constructed there as a part of Black Rock City. We will burn the box along with the temple, as a statement to finally seal your choices for the future. The finished arch, having traveled to Burning Man, will return to be gifted to Gateway Burners for their use. This statement of love, gifting, hope, and commmunity is meant to inspire Burners to new efforts and new friendships, to start new chapters in their lives, and to renew their spirits. Though at first glance it may not fit the theme of Technophilia/Technophobia, perhaps it can inspire us to make those choices and cross those gateways in our lives in the most responsible manner possible. |
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The "Super Scope" |
Jimbo |
Maypole Hill |
The "Super Scope" - Technophilia/Technophobia, you decide! Just don't try to plug it in! |
Genetic/Memory |
Lohr |
Red Bud Circle firepit |
GENETIC: The Earth is round, not flat. It orbits the sun, not the other way around. Evolution verses Creationism; okay, verses Intelligent Design. Man has no right to split the atom. Every development of the human species’ social dynamics, philosophy, medicine, politics and technology has fought a battle with techno phobia. Some of these battles still rage today. The freshest battlefields are over genetics. Arrows are already launching across lines drawn by the mapping of the human Genome, cloning, and stem cell research. These developments are so new the inevitable fields of fray have yet to mature. Lawyers around the globe are certainly arming up to defend and attack the patents medical research companies put on genetic sequences that they identified but did not create. The Vatican will certainly have something to say about god’s creation once geneticists start tweaking the human genome guaranteeing defect free tall blonde children. Therefore, one of the reasons for this sculpture is to symbolize the coming storm of strife yet to birth from the science of Genetics. MEMORY: In memory of (BioTech) Ryan Thomas Hill. He was a Burner and a friend. Our lives are saddened by his passing, and the world made a little less bright. So! I build this symbol of your Playa namesake to honor you, and I burn it to replenish the illumination lost by the absence of your company and companionship, if only for a few fleeting moments. |
Musical Artists at M.I.L.F. |
Read more about M.I.L.F. on the Theme Camps page. |
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Fusion |
2 Ravens |
Booty camp |
Ceremonial space approximately 10 foot diameter with 10 foot arched entrance, open dome roof, rope lights, generator, and central flame pit. |
Musical Artists at The MindLicker Temple of Tech-Knowledge-y |
Read more about The MindLicker on the Theme Camps page. |
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Crop Circles |
Neon Warrior |
TIME PORTAL |
Original neon artwork. |
Art Installations
InterFuse is the place for art installations! The art does not have to relate to the Technophilia/Technophobia theme, but it's fun if it does. Art may be installed anywhere at InterFuse except near the fire rings in Moon Meadow and Maypole Hill, and other areas marked off as reserved.
If your art requires altering the landscape (ex. digging large holes) you must contact the InterFuse Event Planners no later than two weeks before the event.
Neither Midwest Burners nor Ozark Avalon can be held responsible for damaged art. While everyone looks out for one another, artists are ultimately responsible for the safety of their art at InterFuse.
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Art Placement
There are only two types of Art installations that need to be registered for placement by InterFuse event planners:
1.) Fire Art installations
2.) Permanent and semi-permanent Art installations that will alter the landscape (ex. digging large holes).
If your art installation does not fall into either category, you may register anyway to have your art installation listed in the front gate handout. Seeing your art listed inspires other people to participate. Artists who register their non-fire, non-permanent art installations will still be free to pick their installation location upon arrival at InterFuse.
Fire Art must be registered no later than two weeks before the event. Event planners will coordinate with the artists to ensure maximum safety while their Fire Art installations are lit. Coordinating with Event planners will make your art burn happen much smoother, as InterRangers will be on hand to help maintain a burn perimeter and keep an eye out for stray sparks.
If your art requires altering the landscape (ex. digging large holes) you must contact the InterFuse Event Planners no later than two weeks before the event.
All other artists who want their installations listed in the front gate handout must register no later than two weeks before the event.
InterFuse event planners have final say over installation placement and there is no guarantee that you will get to install art in your preferred location. InterFuse event planners will also be placing Theme Camps with large PA systems. Likewise, event planners will reserve certain areas for infrastructure installations such as the Main Effigy work area, the gate, the radio tower, parking lots, toilets, first aid/InterRanger station, etc.
It’s tough to balance everyone’s needs during placement so please bear with us and be cool about the process. It may feel annoying to have to find a place for your art installation AFTER sound camps, fire art installations, and infrastructure installations are placed. The flipside is that you still have a lot of freedom to pick your art installation location anywhere else at OA. If every art installation were placed, then you would have no say over your installation location at all. The placed camps/installations are not necessarily getting "the better deal."
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Get On The Art List
Fill out the form below and press the send button. You will be contacted by an InterFuse Event Planner via email.
Telling the event planners about your art at least TWO WEEKS before InterFuse will get it listed on this page and in the Front Gate Handout. This will make people more aware of your art at InterFuse.
Sound camps can list their DJs and musical performers here, but Theme Camps should be listed and registered on the Theme Camps page.
Performance art should be listed on the Events & Performers page.
InterFuse 2008 Ticket Art Contest
The contest is now over and the winning art will be featured on this year's InterFuse tickets. Big thanks to every artist who took the time to create and submit art for the contest.
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The winning artwork has been chosen! You'll have to buy a ticket to see the final result. |
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Questions About Art & Artists?
Use web-based email to Contact The Event Planners.
"It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection;
through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."