Call for Artists: Collaborative Interactive Art Installation
We invite artists to submit proposals for a collaborative interactive art installation that explores the power of ancestral roots as a foundation for future-making through technology. Selected artists will work together to transform a large space into a unified, immersive environment—merging ancient craft with contemporary media such as projection, sound, and interactive design.
This is a collective effort: artists will collaborate with fabricators and projection artists to build a single, cohesive experience. Diverse heritages will be woven together to strengthen a shared vision, highlighting how, despite our varied backgrounds, working together can shape a connected, collective future.
We’re looking for bold concepts that honor tradition while embracing innovation. Show us how your cultural lineage can inform a technological tomorrow.
Deadline: June 30th
Submit to: evolvingstardustllc@gmail.com
Proposal should include:
Concept description, visual references, technical needs, and artist bio.
Let’s create the future—together.
INSPIRATION & VISION
✦ 1. The Ancient Tribal Past – Ground Floor
Step into the origins of human expression in The Ancient Tribal Past, an immersive gallery space celebrating ancestral wisdom, indigenous craft, and the roots of storytelling. This room is designed as a modern-day cultural sanctum, where tradition meets technology in an interactive showcase of global tribal heritage.
Features:
● Cave-like environment with textured walls evoking stone, earth, and organic forms
● Video mapping and projection bring ancient art to life—illuminating masks, totems, weavings, and sculptures with light, motion, and sound
● Augmented reality interfaces allow visitors to explore the meaning, technique, and symbology behind tribal works
● Exhibits include interactive instruments, ceremonial garments, and reimagined tools—crafted with traditional materials but enhanced with digital layering
● Each piece reveals how cultural traditions carry encoded knowledge about the natural world, community, and spirit
This space anchors the Illuminarium in collective memory and cultural depth, reminding us that before the future is built, the past must be honored.
✦ 2. The Quantum Future – Upper Floor
Ascend into The Quantum Future, a dazzling, mind-expanding exploration of physics, time, and possibility. This top-floor installation is a multisensory voyage through the fabric of reality, where science and imagination converge.
Features:
● A gallery of futuristic sculptures, holograms, and light installations inspired by quantum mechanics, string theory, dark matter, and multidimensional space
● Wall art fuses fractal patterns, circuit boards, and mathematical symbols, pulsing with responsive LED networks
● Interactive experiences allow visitors to manipulate light fields, probability simulations, and particle behavior via gesture or voice
● Sonic environments and spatial sound design mimic black holes, wormholes, and quantum tunneling
● Immersive projection domes and mirror tunnels suggest the infinity of the universe and the microcosmic nature of the self
Here, the exhibit asks: What happens when we abandon linear thinking and embrace the probabilistic universe?
✦ Connecting the Realms: The Evolution Shaft
Between these two realms lies the Elevator Shaft of Evolution—a vertical passage through time and transformation.
● This glass-walled elevator acts as an evolving artwork in itself: the interior walls shift from primitive cave paintings, charcoal handprints, and ancient symbology at the base…
● …to hieroglyphs, architectural forms, blueprints, and eventually digital code, circuit diagrams, and mathematical formulas as visitors ascend
● As the elevator rises, ambient sound and shifting lights reflect the developmental leap of human consciousness—from survival to speculation, myth to math, tradition to transcendence
Together, these two core exhibits form the spiritual and intellectual backbone of the Illuminarium: Grounded in the ancient, reaching toward the quantum—always connected, always evolving.
The Heart of the Illuminarium: The Living Tree of Unification
At the core of the Illuminarium stands a monumental interactive art installation: The Living Tree of Unification. This towering, sculptural centerpiece rises from the ground floor and extends upward through the atrium, reaching the second and third levels—a vertical symbol of growth, connection, and shared futures.
A Tree Like No Other:
● Hollow Trunk & Performance Stage: The tree’s interior forms a hidden, integrated stage with a subtle riser. Concealed lighting and projection systems illuminate performers—be it musicians, DJs, or speakers—while preserving the organic illusion of the sculpture.
● AI Oracle: When not in use for live events, the stage transforms into a mystical focal point featuring an AI-driven holographic “Oracle”. This interactive guide shares stories, answers visitor questions, and offers insight into the installations, artists, and guiding philosophy of the Illuminarium.
● Branches of Light & Connection: The tree's bark and limbs are embedded with animated LED light channels, pulsing rhythmically from deep roots at the base to the furthest branches above. This ever-shifting illumination symbolizes the energy of collaboration and cultural ancestry flowing upward toward new possibilities.
● Suspended Exploration Platforms: Branches support floating platforms on the upper floors, allowing visitors to climb into and among the canopy, offering new vantage points and immersive interactions.
● Ceiling Kaleidoscope Installation: Above the tree’s crown, the atrium’s ceiling becomes a cosmic canvas—featuring a kaleidoscopic array of projections, LED lights, and colored acrylic dichroic panels. As light passes through, it refracts and dances across the space, creating a mesmerizing, ever-changing environment.
Symbolism:
The Living Tree is more than a sculpture—it is the hub of the Illuminarium, both practically and symbolically. It tells the story of unification through diversity, representing how individual heritages, when intertwined, form a powerful shared future. It is where stories converge, energy flows, and transformation begins.