Chila Kumari Singh Burman's multidisciplinary practice explores femininity, identity and popular culture. Her illuminated installations use autobiographical and South Asian imagery to engage the architecture and histories of public sites.
Ristow makes metal and robotic sculptures, including the glove-controlled Hand of Man. He collaborated with Christina Sporrong on the opening, illuminated sculpture Capsule.
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Practice
metal sculpture, robotic sculpture, interactive sculpture
Materials in documented works
steel, stainless steel, glass
Project references
The Hand of Man · Capsule · With Open Arms We Welcomed That Which Would Destroy Us
Documented contexts
Interactive robotic sculpture · New York event · 2018; Collaborative kinetic sculpture · changing versions
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Sporrong combines metalwork, movement, sound and audience interaction. She established Spitfire Forge in Taos and co-created Capsule with Christian Ristow.
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Practice
metal sculpture, kinetic sculpture, interactive sculpture
Materials in documented works
glass
Project references
The Flybrary · Capsule · Caged Pulse Jets
Documented contexts
Sculpture and reading environment · Burning Man presentation; Community participation · Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
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Schardt uses programmable LEDs and music to construct immersive environments. Firmament and Nova combine animated light patterns with spaces where audiences can gather and linger.
An innovation studio founded in 2007, developing interactions between digital and physical spaces. Its portfolio includes responsive light works, architectural environments and exhibition installations.
Interactive entrance · London, United Kingdom; Participatory exhibition · London, United Kingdom
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Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022) transformed familiar objects through exaggerated scale, unexpected materials and playful changes of context. His career encompassed Pop Art, soft sculpture, performances and monumental public works. From the 1970s he collaborated extensively with Coosje van Bruggen, whose co-authorship is essential to the outdoor projects documented here. Their Split Button was installed outside the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library in 1981. Walker Art Center dates Spoonbridge and Cherry to 1985–1988, encompassing development and realization for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Denver Art Museum records their Big Sweep in 2006 beside its Hamilton Building. This individual historical profile preserves the shared credits and provides civic-scale reference projects; it does not describe a current studio or offer new commissions by the deceased artist.
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Practice
public sculpture, monumental sculpture, installation, Pop Art
Project references
Split Button (with Coosje van Bruggen) · Spoonbridge and Cherry (with Coosje van Bruggen) · Big Sweep (with Coosje van Bruggen)
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Cliff Garten Studio integrates sculpture into landscapes, plazas, buildings, and infrastructure. Its projects use sculptural form and lighting to shape how people experience shared urban places.
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Practice
public sculpture, landscape sculpture, architectural installation, light art
Materials in documented works
stainless steel, LED lights, concrete, aluminum
Project references
Los Angeles Opens Its Heart of Compassion · I AM A MAN Plaza · Corridor of Light (Esplanade Bridge)
Documented contexts
Mixed-use development · Los Angeles, California; Civil rights memorial · Memphis, Tennessee
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Colin Bowring, who works as Wizard, scales experiments with light, balance and motion into participatory sculptures. His portfolio describes Bucky Ball, made in 2022, as a rotating structure based on the geometry of a carbon-60 molecule. The artist records its use at Burning Man and credits Jack Wahl with installation help, and Sydney Parcell and Levi Call with removal. Space Polyp, dated 2019, combines a suspended seating form, motion and changing colored lights; Bowring names friends QJ, Dustin and Martin for assembly and transport. This documented collaborative practice uses engineering ideas as a basis for physical experience. A later OHM project description remains written as construction in progress, so it is not treated as proof of completion or safe operating performance.
Bucky Ball — with credited installation crew · Space Polyp — assembly and transport with QJ, Dustin and Martin
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Coosje van Bruggen (1942–2009) was a Dutch-American artist whose monumental outdoor sculptures were created in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg. This individual historical profile preserves her authorship alongside that collaboration. The Walker Art Center credits both artists for Spoonbridge and Cherry, dated 1985–1988 and made in aluminum and stainless steel with paint. The Denver Art Museum likewise co-credits Big Sweep, a 2006 sculpture that enlarges a broom and dustpan, while the University of Pennsylvania documents their painted-aluminum Split Button, installed in 1981 before Van Pelt Library. These institution-specific references show the pair’s use of familiar objects at architectural scale across museum and university settings. Collection sites and object dates describe those documented works; they do not establish rights, availability or an active personal studio.
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Practice
monumental sculpture, public sculpture
Project references
Spoonbridge and Cherry · Big Sweep · Split Button
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Cory Barr creates participatory installations that alter perception through light, motion sensing and custom software. His portfolio records both independent pieces and collaborative roles in public-space and museum projects.
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Practice
interactive installation, light art, generative art
Materials in documented works
colored lights, Arduino, custom software, wood
Project references
Helen Diller Civic Center Playground · Fresno Cultural Center · Split Sight
Documented contexts
Public playground and light installation · San Francisco, California; Artist and landscape collaboration · San Francisco, California
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Artist working across sculpture, immersive installations, drawing and virtual experiences, using repeated geometric forms to connect architectural space with bodily experience.
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Practice
sculpture, immersive installation, digital art
Materials in documented works
Stainless steel
Project references
Knot · Pyramid Tube · Half Pyramid
Documented contexts
Inflatable sculpture · Hangzhou, China; Festival installation · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Dale Chihuly develops glass and mixed-media installations through collaborative production, with documented museum, garden and public-infrastructure settings.
Dan Barnes, also credited as Tinker, develops interactive outdoor installations with The Tinkers Knot. Burning Man’s archive traces an interest in participant-made sound, reused materials and moving forms: The Music Box is a human-powered metal-and-recycled-material instrument, while CHILL suspends five playable gongs in an illuminated X-frame. Fintastic School of Art uses wind to animate a school of fish forms, and The Question is described as an 18-foot question mark. The organizer’s 2026 listing adds Center of the Universe, a metal disc paired with a 26-foot arrow. These are documented event projects; the latest listing’s final installation and the works’ current whereabouts remain unconfirmed.
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Daniel Popper creates monumental figurative installations connecting human forms with plants and landscape. His documented projects range from an urban building setting to a temporary arboretum exhibition.
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Practice
sculpture, public art, site-specific installation
Project references
Thrive · Human+Nature
Documented contexts
Completed 2020 installation at Society Las Olas.; Temporary exhibition opened 2021 and ended February 2023.
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Daniel Strickland is an installation artist individually credited in Burning Man’s official archive and named as an organizer of Brazilian Burners. The collective’s project credits identify him as author of The Altar of Intentions, while crediting Vinicius Luz for lighting and three-dimensional modelling alongside other production collaborators. Burning Man’s 2017 listing additionally names Brazilian Burners and Keith D’Angelo. Later archive entries credit Strickland for The Torus Temple in 2022, Bouman in 2023 and Inner Worlds in 2024. Inner Worlds is described as an infinity-mirror floor surrounded by illuminated poles, while Bouman is presented as an immersive installation about cosmic themes. This individual profile preserves the surrounding team credits; it does not equate Strickland with the entire collective or confirm the works’ current locations and availability.
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Practice
installation art, water sculpture, light installation
Project references
The Altar of Intentions · The Torus Temple · Bouman
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Darrell Ansted, whose artist website uses the name Darrell E. Ansted, makes large steel and LED artworks informed by his background in steel fabrication and powder coating. His site traces the move toward larger illuminated forms to encountering Burning Man in 2009. Centered uses repeated circular steel forms to frame views and movement; the artist portfolio shows a five-ring arrangement. Burning Man’s 2022 archive separately describes a three-ring configuration with LEDs and space for participants to pass through. Its 2023 archive lists Awaken Thee, a group of three wood-and-steel stupa-like towers with nighttime lighting. These event records document the artist’s proposed presentations; they do not independently prove completed installation or establish that the differently configured works remain available.
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Practice
steel sculpture, LED light sculpture, participatory installation
Project references
Centered — 2022 Burning Man archive presentation · Awaken Thee — 2023 Burning Man archive presentation
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Best develops elaborate wooden temples with volunteer crews and participating communities. His installations provide spaces for reflection and remembrance at Burning Man and in other public settings.
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Practice
monumental installation, wood sculpture, participatory art
Materials in documented works
1973 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
Project references
Temple · Community temple projects · Rocket Car
Documented contexts
Museum installation · Washington, DC; Participatory construction · public spaces
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David Date’s archive-listed work explores human-powered motion, light and participatory structures. Burning Man identifies him with Santa Cruz and records Kinetic MerKaBa Vehicle in 2017: visitors climb a spiral staircase into an upholstered rotating structure, with a gong sounded by its movement. MerKaBa Portal, listed in 2019 and again in 2022, also invites participants to climb inside and turn amid pulsing light. Myriapoda Robota, the 2018 mechanical-centipede project, is credited jointly to Date, David Han and Art to Be Continued Collective. These records document a collaborative kinetic practice; they do not establish present installation locations or whether repeated titles refer to unchanged physical objects.
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