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This completely new art environment continues ahha’s tradition of large-scale, semi-permanent, interactive art. When you visit THE EXPERIENCE: IMAGINE, you will explore zones designed and built by one of six Tulsa-based artists. Each has different interactive elements. What will you discover? Ahha is limiting admission during the pandemic. Advance tickets recommened.
Zones
Together
Andy Arkley
Together is a collaborative interactive installation that combines sculpture, animation, music and light. The piece can be controlled by up to four people through a series of control panels. The control panels use buttons to trigger synchronized music and animation sequences. Depending on the combination of buttons pushed, a new song and visual composition is created. The goal of Together is to encourage the connection that happens between people when they collaborate successfully.
Woo
Justice Gutierrez
Woo is a sensory forward experience based on the feeling of euphoria.
Woo presents environment that’s highly-stylized with saturated colors, flat shapes and ethereal sounds, it lives and breathes through oddly familiar sculptures and other-worldly animations. Lights guide a path, while sounds build three distinct atmospheres. As Woo progresses, its landscape drifts further from being recognizably human, but closer to a resolution.
Grow
Katherine Hair
Inspired by the stories that the woods have to tell, Grow is an immersive indoor installation that transports the viewer outside. Everyone is invited to participate in creating layers of lichen, ensuring that no two moments in the space are the same. Similar to the way nature is always growing and changing, so too will this installation. As time moves from dusk to dawn and back again, discover the flora and fauna of the forest at night.
The Data Miner
Alton Markham
Do you know how much data you generate on a daily basis? Do you know who has access to your data? Do you know how your data is used?
Data Miner does!
By analyzing your data collected and stored on servers throughout the world, Data Miner will create an accurate psychological profile of the real you. He’ll know what you know and learn to predict your every move, thought, need, and desire, often before you even realize those desires.
Which bag will perfectly compliment the dress you just bought? Who at this party would you have the best conversation with? Who should you marry? For whom should you vote?
These are a few of the many questions Data Miner will gladly answer in just a few short moments with your data. He loves nothing more than getting to know you.
Remember: to enter is to consent.
The Tempest's Parallax
Emily Simonds
Science and nature can sometimes be a dangerous combination; the result can be one of beauty or of terror. Just because a thing can be done, should it? Enter the Tempest and judge for yourself. See the universe through the eyes of Prota Tooru, the solitary resident of the Tempest space station module. Investigate the chilling story of the Splicer experiments that led to an intergalactic revolution. Learn the ancient origins of the alien species that started it all. This exhibit will be accompanied by a companion Youtube Series entitled Parallax, Series 1 coming in Fall 2020, from Propvocative Creations.
Into The Wormhole
John White
Into the Wormhole is the compilation of three art environments designed to allow visitors to experience the wonders of future technology and space travel while also facing the realities of what could happen to us in the future if we don’t protect our planet and manage our resources wisely.
The Eviction is a futuristic spaceship designed at the pinnacle of human intelligence and technology. It traverses a wormhole in order to find new worlds because planet Earth will soon be inhospitable. Explore, test, and experiment to help humanity find its new home. Enter a chamber of captured light into The Black Hole as you cross the event horizon, you will begin to sink into a place with such strong gravitational pull that light can’t even escape, and perhaps neither can you. The Dimension Shift is a realm where humanity has crossed into a parallel dimension. Be careful, in this realm humans are no longer supreme beings. Here you will encounter an alien who wants you to become the subject of its experiments. Appease the alien and perhaps it will befriend you. Fail and face more dire consequences.
Lead Artists
Andy Arkley
Andy Arkley is a visual artist, musician and animator and who often combines these disciplines in his work. At the core of his practice is an emphasis on making work that is collaborative, focusing on the connection that happens between people when they collaborate successfully. He strives to create work that is inclusive and invokes elation. Andy’s work has been shown at the wndr museum in Chicago, the Bellevue Arts Museum, MadArt Studio, Bumbershoot and Pictoplasma. He has a BA from The Evergreen State College where he studied animation and electronic music. He has received awards from 4Culture and Artist Trust. He is a member of the sound collage duo The Bran Flakes, and was also a founder of the art team LET’S (now inactive). He is married to the artist Julie Alpert, who is a current fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
Justice David Gutierrez
Justice David Gutierrez is an artist recently relocated to Tulsa from Oklahoma’s big brother to the south, Texas. He has released many short films, music videos and art goods through an art studio and online shop called Warm Bubblegum. He earned a BA in Graphic Design from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where he focused on animation, illustration, and art direction. Justice’s work is often a mashup of his interests in writing, music, goofs and/or gags (humor) and new technologies. During the day, he raises two growing pugs.
Katherine Hair
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Katherine Hair received her BFA in printmaking in 2007 from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited and is included in private and public collections nationally and internationally. Inspired by nature, Hair explores engaging the viewer with imagery that evokes nostalgia and wonder. Many of her current works are paintings but more recently she has begun experimenting with the manipulation of space and has a continued interest in viewer participation. Hair currently lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois.
Alton Markham
Alton Markham’s art is about exploring the simulation of experience, the elusive nature of authenticity and the internal reconciliations we make between those two. To Alton, art is glimpsing something about humanity, investigating it, sharing it, highlighting it, inviting people to think about it and then question the way that they think about it. Art is meant to shake things up; to brush aside settled dust and uncover hidden gems of understanding. It creates depth, awareness and complexity in anyone who dares give themselves to it.
Emily Simonds
Emily Simonds is a Tulsa based mixed media installation artist and writer who loves to take art to the next level through engineering and interactivity. She strives to blend elegant engineering solutions seamlessly into interactive art installations, challenging her audience to think deeper about the world around them. Since 2009, she has worked with a variety of techniques ranging from airbrush and thermoplastic heat-forming to welding and 3D printing. Specializing in the use of unconventional materials, Emily is inspired by the problems she sees people face in everyday life, and endeavors to bring elements of fantasy and wonder to the solutions.
John White
John White is a Tulsa local and native. He is a technology teacher, robotics coach, drone racer, and mixed media artist who incorporates the technical skills that he teaches in his classroom such as CNC machining, 3D printing, laser cutting, electronics, and programming with his art. He strives to create engaging, innovative, and interactive designs, sculptures, and installations that reach his audience. John loves to give back to his community through both knowledge and art. He wants to inspire others to share their passions and unique talents with their community, whatever they may be.
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