Sam Cooler is a Bay Area engineer and maker of interactive installations that connect physical movement with light, sound and programmed effects. The Dancing Forest links swiveling steel poles with elastic cords so participants influence one another through a shared moving structure. Light Curve, created in 2024, places controlled flame effects on a participant-driven pendulum. Cooler’s portfolio also documents Fantasmophone, an interactive sound sculpture with LEDs and surrounding speakers, and electronics work with the Flaming Lotus Girls. Burning Man’s 2018 and 2024 archive entries credit Art for Open Spaces alongside Cooler for Dancing Forest and Light Curve. These projects document an interdisciplinary practice in structures, electronics and software; their event listings and portfolio descriptions do not establish current installation condition or commercial availability.
Sanford Biggers combines sculptural traditions and cultural references in public projects extending across monuments, flags and architectural displays.
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Practice
sculpture, installation, public art
Materials in documented works
aluminum and stainless steel (MIT prints 'Aluminum stainless steel'), resin, mixed media, cast bronze
Project references
Oracle, Seigaiha and Just Us · Oracle · Madrigal
Documented contexts
Rockefeller Center campus; Rockefeller Center public plaza
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Sayaka Ganz assembles reclaimed objects into sculptures that emphasize animal movement. Her public-art archive includes permanent commissions in Indiana as well as a separately documented traveling exhibition practice.
Scott Froschauer is a Los Angeles artist whose experiential practice draws on engineering, design, computing and fabrication. He explores communication through objects that initially resemble familiar elements of everyday life. The Word on the Street adopts the materials and visual conventions of road signs, replacing prohibitions and warnings with encouraging messages. The series asks passers-by to notice an unexpected difference in an apparently ordinary setting. His portfolio documents twenty signs distributed through Glendale parks and libraries, and three pieces in the Renwick Gallery’s 2018 No Spectators exhibition. It separately identifies The 10 Principles at Reno Playa Art Park. These are presentation references within a broader series; the undated city entries do not establish present display status, ownership or permission to place functional traffic signs.
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Practice
public art, sculpture, experiential installation, graphic communication
Project references
The Word on the Street — Glendale presentation · The Word on the Street — Renwick Gallery presentation · The 10 Principles — Reno Playa Art Park reference
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Sebastian Errazuriz works across art, technology and design. His documented projects include public moving-image interventions, a satellite-image LED installation and a kinetic environment for an Art Basel collectors' lounge.
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Practice
public art, installation, design, digital art
Materials in documented works
black-and-white moving image, LED screen, custom software, satellite imagery
Project references
A Pause in the City That Never Sleeps · blu Marble · Foundations
Documented contexts
Times Square moving-image presentation, January 2015; Ludlow Street launch and New Museum neighborhood display, 2019
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Representative artist / studio imageImage: groundsforsculpture.org ↗Photo courtesy of The Seward Johnson Atelier, Inc. (as credited at source)individual
Seward Johnson (1930–2020) was an American sculptor whose practice encompassed life-size figures, enlarged cultural images and sculptural environments inspired by painting. His atelier documents the Monumental Scale series and his founding of the Johnson Atelier in 1974 and Grounds For Sculpture in 1992. This historical profile focuses on contemporary sculpture and the experience of encountering it in a public landscape. The Grounds For Sculpture record for The Awakening identifies a cast-aluminum collection version dated 2014, numbered 4/8. Its records also distinguish the 2012 aluminum-and-wood God Bless America from the 2003 styrofoam A Turn of the Century. Those object-specific dates, materials and editions must not be applied to every version of the works. The profile does not imply current services by the deceased artist or availability through Big Art Partners.
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Practice
monumental figurative sculpture, public sculpture, sculptural environments
Project references
The Awakening · God Bless America · A Turn of the Century
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Silvia López Chavez is a visual artist working in murals, painting, and printmaking. Her artist statement places her practice in Boston and describes neighborhood participation as part of how she develops mural content. Her imagery combines realistic figures with vivid geometric patterns. Northeastern University documents 999 Cranes (2018) and Joy (2019) at Ruggles Station, where painted hands, origami and a woman blowing bubbles transform the transit entrance. For Patterned Behavior on Boston’s Esplanade, she worked with a team of women artists on a commission from the Esplanade Association, curated and produced by Now + There. Community Tides (2023), created with New Bedford High School students through DATMA and NORPEL, translates local landscapes and fishing-community life into a large exterior mural on Fish Island.
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Practice
murals, painting, printmaking, community-engaged public art
Project references
999 Cranes · Joy · Patterned Behavior
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A multidisciplinary team drawing on art, engineering, science and education to create permanent sculpture, temporary installations and bespoke lighting, with related community programs.
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kinetic sculpture, light installation, interactive art
Sneha Shrestha, known as IMAGINE, brings Devanagari letterforms and graffiti influences into murals, painting and sculpture. Her practice connects language and cultural memory with the experience of shared space. For Cambridge, With Love from Nepal, dated 2018, occupies an MIT building in Cambridge’s Central Square and draws on a Nepali poem. Mindful Mandalas, dated 2019 in her portfolio, was developed with approximately one hundred young participants from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s community partners; their small mandalas were incorporated into three large forms painted by Shrestha. Love and Maya, dated 2022, created an interactive mural environment at Boston Children’s Museum, using collaboration between visitors to illuminate paintings. Her portfolio credits Black Cat Labs with engineering that installation.
SOFTlab develops public artworks and interactive environments using geometry, color, light, and fabrication. Its projects include sculptural gateways, responsive installations, and suspended works in public buildings.
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Practice
public art, interactive installation, architectural installation, light art
Materials in documented works
mirrored panels, individually addressable LEDs
Project references
Spectral Grove · Cloud Gazing · Volume
Documented contexts
Park entrance · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Airport connector · Kansas City, Missouri
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SpY makes public installations that reconfigure familiar urban objects and engage audiences with their surroundings. Working through SpY Studio, he has used reflective surfaces, wind-driven barrier tape and arrangements of imitation surveillance cameras.
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Practice
public installation, kinetic sculpture, urban intervention
Project references
ORB · CCTV · Barrier Tape
Documented contexts
Signal Festival, Prague Castle gardens, 2024; Urban Art Biennale, Völklinger Hütte, 2019
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Squidsoup makes immersive environments using light, sound and networked digital systems. Founded by Anthony Rowe, the group develops work through collaborators in art, production, software and audio.
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Practice
light art, sound art, interactive installation
Materials in documented works
LED lights, speakers, microcomputers, LEDs
Project references
Wave · Murmuration · Sola
Documented contexts
Salisbury Cathedral commission · subsequent festival variations; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art · 2019–2020
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Stanislav Shminke works with Irina Shminke in a Reno-based practice spanning public art, light art and site-specific installations. Their joint portfolio documents Mir or, a steel installation presented at Burning Man in 2024, and Desert Splash, a fiberglass pool environment from the 2023 event. Burning Man credits both artists for Glorywall in 2018 and Desert Splash, while its 2022 DIPTOWN entry names Stanislav for a landscape of rooftops suggesting a town buried beneath the playa. The official portfolio also includes DIPTOWN within their shared body of work. Washoe County independently identifies the two as Reno-based artists. This individual profile retains Stanislav’s identity while making Irina’s collaboration explicit; a shared portfolio is not evidence of sole authorship or a separate solo studio.
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public art, light art, site-specific installation, sculpture
Daan Roosegaarde and his studio develop installations connecting light, technology and environmental questions. Projects range from the simulated flood of WATERLICHT to agricultural light interventions and participatory encounters with bioluminescent algae.
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Practice
light installation, interactive installation, social design
Project references
WATERLICHT · GROW · GLOWING NATURE
Documented contexts
Documented outdoor presentations; United Nations 2018 and Tampa 2023.; Agricultural installation developed with farming and research partners.
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Susumu Shingu creates kinetic sculpture using wind, water and gravity. U.S. references include outdoor works in New York and the 2025 Elated! exhibition at Japan Society.
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Practice
kinetic sculpture, wind sculpture, water sculpture
Project references
Little Cosmos · Silent Water · Dialog with the Sun
Documented contexts
Indoor installation in New York; Museum lobby pool
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Representative artist / studio imageImage: arxiv.org ↗Jnaneshwar Das and coauthors, Engineering Mythology (2026), Fig.24(b); photographer not identified. Paper declares CC BY4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Reduced for this directory; framing unchanged. (as credited at source)individual
Swig Miller is a self-taught artist, designer and builder based in Grass Valley, California, according to his current website. His practice ranges from monumental sculpture to hand-built spaces, working with wood, steel, stone and earth. Akle’ the Dragon is identified on his site as a Burning Man 2015 project; the organizer described a white concrete dragon almost 50 feet long. Tower of Ascension is credited to Miller and Friends in 2016, with a 40-foot steel tower and fire-breathing dragons. Later archive entries include the seated Open Hearted Meditator, The Phoenix and The Butterfly, The Giver and Tree of Love. Archive dimensions describe those event entries rather than independently verified current structures.
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Practice
monumental sculpture, interactive installation, steel sculpture, stone sculpture, woodwork
Project references
Akle' the Dragon · Tower of Ascension · Open Hearted Meditator OHM
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Tanya Aguiñiga uses sculpture, textiles, performance and collaborative making to address border experience and community relationships. Her public practice includes participatory projects and the collective AMBOS, whose work has shared authorship.
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Practice
sculpture, installation, performance, social practice
Materials in documented works
hay bales, clay, locally sourced natural materials
Project references
Border Quipu · Metabolizing the Border · AMBOS
Documented contexts
2016 participatory border project.; Undated work account; performance material is not generalized as a public interactive object.
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