Interactive art installation 'Radiant Echoes' heading to Summerfest grounds
CBS 58 MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- In just nine days, Milwaukee's annual pilgrimage to the lakefront begins. Big crowds will head to Henry Maier Festival Park for the start of Summerfest. And again this year, an interactive art display will be part of the festivities.
"We were inspired by some of these ancient stone circles, sites of some of these ancient rituals, and thinking about music festivals as a place where we come together for this, especially Summerfest as kind of an annual ritual where we come together, we celebrate, we party," Daniel Murray said.
Murray, founder of Milwaukee's FuzzPop Workshop, has created what he calls an immersive art installation that will be on display near the north gate, between the Uline Warehouse and T-Mobile stages.
It's called "Radiant Echoes" and consists of five sculptures. Murray tells us the work is also interactive.
"We have, on each of these, will be a different interactive element," Murray said. "Buttons, dials, some cosmic lichen you can press to make music, be part of the soundscape."
FuzzPop Workshop is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts and Wild Space Dance Company.
This will be the third year that FuzzPop Workshop has installed immersive art at the Summerfest grounds.