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Sam Cooler

San Francisco Bay Area, California

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.

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interactive installation, kinetic sculpture, light art, flame art, sound sculpture
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San Francisco Bay Area, California
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Sam Cooler is based in San Francisco Bay Area, California. Documented disciplines include interactive installation, kinetic sculpture, light art, flame art, sound sculpture.

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