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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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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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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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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Explore sculptures that physically move: visitor-activated mechanisms, changing forms and wind-driven installations. Compare documented projects, understand how motion shapes the encounter, and identify the site and maintenance questions to resolve with an artist.
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