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ART + TECHNOLOGY MICRO-FEST | May 8-11, 2025

We are hosting a small festival + gathering for local artists, creators, and partner organizations to connect, share, and dream a little together. Over four days we’ll offer talks, demonstrations, short performances, small-group conversations, and installations.

This micro-festival will be part of a new Fusebox initiative to help support and nurture the art + technology ecosystem in Austin. To this end, over the next three years we will be laying the groundwork to become a more strategic participant in the local, national and global production, presentation, and dissemination of new ideas, experiences, and projects relating to the intersection of art and technology.

This initiative speaks to our longstanding belief in creating dialogue between disparate economies, forms of knowledge, institutions, cultures, and artistic forms.

Presented in partnership with dadaGeek and Museum of Human Achievement. 

Schedule of Events:

  • Thur, May 8th 7pm-9:30pm: Fusebox Artist Salon at dadaLab
  • Fri, May 9th 12pm-6pm: Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath installation open hours at MoHA (created by Kate Freer + Ty Defoe)
  • Fri, May 9th 7pm-9pm: Bring Your Own Beamer at dadaLab
  • Sat, May 10th 12pm-6pm: Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath installation open hours at MoHA
  • Sat, May 10th 7pm-10pm: Fusebox + dadaGeek Presents The Sound Around Us at dadaLab (feat. Jiabao Li, Will Tallent, Michael Bruner, Manu Prakash, James Talambas + David Sydiongco, Brandon Stargrave, + Lisa Anne Kobdish)
  • Sun, May 11th 11am-12pm: Cosmic Bloom Morning Movement at MoHA
  • Sun, May 11th 12pm-6pm: Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath installation open hours at MoHA
  • Sun, May 11th 6pm-8pm: Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath Performance at MoHA

More event + artist information below!

May 8th | 7pm-9:30pm | Fusebox Artist Salon

Venue: dadaLab 2008 Alexander Ave

Our micro-festival kicks off with our final artist salon of the spring. Free for artists and Fusebox Members! Recharge your creative batteries and join us for a vibrant evening of arts, conversation, and inspiration! We’ll celebrate the boundary-pushing work of five extraordinary artists whose practices span performance, immersive media, activism, and radical storytelling.

Showcasing the artists:

  • Ty Defoe
  • Katherine Freer
  • Jiabao Li
  • Chandrika Metivier
  • Kyle Evans
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May 9th/10th/11th | 12pm-6pm | Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath Open Installation

Venue: Museum of Human Achievement 3600 Lyons Rd / Canopy

Created by Katherine Freer + Ty Defoe

Come gather where galaxy meets garden. A multi-sensorial experience of lifeways, ritual, music, and flora that combines creative technology and comfort to conjure an expansive world rooted in Indigenous Futurism and Queer/Trans joy. Through blended reality installation and emergent performance, Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath invites you to seed future universes, foster relations, and cultivate kinship.  Let’s celebrate and illuminate balance in our beings.

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May 9th | 7pm-9pm | Bring Your Own Beamer

Venue: dadaLab 2008 Alexander Ave

Community members are invited to project their own visuals using video, film, slides, and overhead projectors. If you bring it, you can project it! This event also acts as a mixer and meet & greet.

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May 10th | 7pm-10pm | The Sound Around Us

Venue: dadaLab 2008 Alexander Ave

A one-night only collaboration between Fusebox and dadaGeek, with a special focus on quad audio, immersive sound, and plankton!

Showcasing the artists: 

  • Jiabao Li, Will Tallent, Michael Bruner, Manu Prakash (quad audio) / The Long Fall
  • James Talambas (quad audio) + David Sydiongco (live visuals)
  • Brandon Stargrave (realtime AI visuals + quad audio) + Lisa Anne Kobdish (dance)

The Sound Around Us references the pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson and her book “The Sea Around Us”

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May 11th | Movement 11am-12pm + Performance 6pm-8pm | Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath

Venue: Museum of Human Achievement 3600 Lyons Rd / Canopy

Come gather where galaxy meets garden. A multi-sensorial experience of lifeways, ritual, music, and flora that combines creative technology and comfort to conjure an expansive world rooted in Indigenous Futurism and Queer/Trans joy. Through blended reality installation and emergent performance, Cosmic Bloom: Shape of Breath invites you to seed future universes, foster relations, and cultivate kinship.  Let’s celebrate and illuminate balance in our beings. While this space can be experienced individually, there will be offerings throughout to find intentional points of connection. It combines multiple forms of media, performance and community experience. 

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