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Neon artist
www.coolneon.com
Pyrocussion consists of gas cannons actuated by playing drumsticks releasing percussive blasts in a rhythmical fashion. Primal TV is a hand cranked flaming vortex that creates a 6’ tall spinning flame.
www.pyrocussion.com
Charlie Smith comes back to the Fire Arts Festival joined by Jamie Ladet with one of six fire caldrons that have been built throughout the country.
www.howhowhow.com
Christopher Schardt is a machine-art maker in Oakland. His first big project was "Spin"
at Burning Man 2000. In 2002 at The Crucible he built "Ping", a submarine art car.
In 2003, he built "Yantra" and in 2004 he and Betty Ray built "Nebula", both of these
debuting at Burning Man.
www.schardt.org
Dan and Karen bring 10 flaming footprints cast in concrete and steel are the prints of a 30 foot tall woman.
An electro-mechanical spectacle designed around a 50 ft. high central tower. Bodies
(performers) are suspended from the structure, integrated into devices that hybridize man into machine.
www.datherrien.com
Don is a metal flame effect artist bringing to the festival several fire cannons.
Remember the electronic game "Simon" from your childhood? It was a round electronic unit with four colored wedges that lit up and beeped to indicate a pattern. The object was to follow the pattern of the colors and beeps. Each time you successfully completed a pattern, the length would be extended by one light. Flaming Simon is a flaming version of the original game
www.ericsinger.com/SimonPix.html
Purple Will-o-light is a 6ft willow tree fabricated of 1200ft twisted wire, jute twine and x-mas lights.
www.toysfortops.com
Flaming Lotus Girls have been creating works of copper, steel, and fire since 2000 when they made their first six-chambered kerosene shooter, attached petals to it, and painted it pink.
www.flaminglotus.com
Dance Dance Immolation is a pyro adaptation of the popular arcade video game, Dance Dance Revolution.
www.interpretivearson.com
Jack Schroll's work is large, loud and complex. After watching the Olympics in Australia, he conceived the idea for El Diablo, a jet engine repurposed as sculpture.
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LED, Neon and fiber optic artist, brining a garden of illuminated sculptures.
www.speakeasy.net/tritical/
Pyrokinetics is the art collective of Joe Bard and Danya Parkinson, all art by Pyrokinetics is designed and built in equal partnership. They have been working together for the last four years on a variety of sculptures. In their exploration through many art mediums, they have found kinetic sculpture to be where their individual artistic voices can articulate together, leading them to incorporate fire and motion as the foundations of designs.
www.pyrokinetics.com
Kasia believes fire has the power to purify, regenerate, and inspire the human spirit. Her goal is always to make sculpture that is "beautiful and prudently dangerous."
rokkitkween@yahoo.com
Tesla coil
Most of Kiki Pettit's artwork incorporates fire, neon, el-wire, or fiber optics; she is perhaps best known for her fire fountains and cauldrons. Scott "Sparky" Bartlett is a metal sculptor, working primarily in steel, but his current projects incorporate flames moving through clear tubing.
www.burningideas.com/firefall/cauldron/
Known for his large-scale interactive sculpture and installations, Michael unveils a new installation for the Fire Arts Festival as well as an old time favorite, Babel.
www.michaelchristian.com
Michael Sturtz, our Executive Director and Founder, has been a Bay Area sculptor, teacher and facilitator of artists for many years.
His pieces address both concept and form through the creation of intriguing kinetic machines and strong material contrasts that often include creative mixtures of stone, cast and fabricated metals, glass, kinetics, light, fire, liquid and video.
www.michaelsturtz.com
In 1977 Nate Smith used large format cameras to photograph fireball explosions he created in remote parts of Utah. Now he builds machines that allow him to create fantastic fire vortexes and to sculpt fire directly.
www.fire-arts.com
Metal sculpturist
This kinetic light sculpture has been known to instill mass hallucination. Stare at your own risk!
www.1sky.com/artist/
Kevin Gauna and Dennis Baum create solar powered botanical sculptures. Their work includes sunflowers, corn stalks, pea vines, roses and some very special carrots.
www.sunbrothers.com
www.firegarden.org/newsunbro.html
Therm creates sculptural forms as instruments that manipulate and shape flames. They are pushing the boundaries of flame technology and flame effects. Therm brings to the Fire Arts Festival a menagerie of 11 sculptures, and one Tesla coil.
www.therm.biz
Seattle's "PyroBoy" started his career as a fire puppeteer and co-founder of Cirque de Flambe. He continues to push the boundaries of this new art form as an "explosive" solo artist and as part of The Big Bang Group.
www.gwally.com/pyroboy/
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