Grand Park +13 Arts Fest’s Interaction Park

Part of a three-location festival, Grand Park + I3 Arts Fest’s Interaction Park will host large-scale interactive art installations, transforming Grand Park’s Event Lawn into an urban art gallery. Works include: Through the Cattails by Aphidoidea, 40 coroplast hexagon abstract cattails that provide shade during the day and emit animated light by night; Anthropocene by 5Gyers – a response to plastic pollution and inspired by Da Vinci’s Vituvian Man – the piece sends microbeads and light throughout the piece via attached stationary bicycles; Melting Rainbows by Aaron Axelrod, where the artist uses his face and various body parts to press up against a transparent plexiglass surface to create psychedelic drips and effects that are then live projected onto a theater screen; Jabba Barge by Adam Mostow, a large metal mutant vehicle fabricated and sculpted by David Haskell; Infinity Boxes by Matt Elson, an interactive social piece where participants’ faces are turned into contemporary portraiture; and Mechan9 by Tyler Fuqua, a giant fallen robot that is 35-feet in diameter.