MAD Grants 2016

There were ten applications reviewed during the MAD grant process. Four of these were shifted over to MAD grants from the regular application process.

On Top of Old Smokey – Fixer

A giant flame shooting banjo trailer stage and attendee transport vehicle and art piece.

Butterfly Interactive Art – Butterfly Man

Come one come all to Butterfly Land…4 domes for your viewing and playful pleasure. Butterfly Dome, interactive art and butterflies….Chrysalis Dome( also referred to Chill Dome) 16 ft. dome covered , full of soft cushions, soft music and crazy lighting…RELAX, Revive and return to burner land.. Art Dome…have any and or all parts of your body painted …while inside see amazing pieces of Glass Art and more. Last but not leastest… Performance Dome.. …24 ft. Dome that is built for Fire artists and Aerial artist …just not at the same time. (Were still working on letting them perform at the same time.. Doctors welcomed.)

Fire Columns – Bobbi Ganoush

Artist Matt Pollock created a pair of matching propane based Fire Columns that stand 6 feet tall. In 2015 these columns were introduced at the Mellow Yellow VIP Lounge.

The Narwhal & DiscoFish Jr – Been

Bubble butt is a scooter based art car shaped like a narwhal with sound reactive lighting built for Alchemy 2015. It tows the DiscoFish Jr., a modified bike trailer shaped to look like a lantern fish. DiscoFish Jr. carries a professional grade bubble machine, fog machine, lighting, and sound system that allows for a portable Disco throughout the burn. It has attended PreHeat in it’s entirety and DiscoFish Jr. attended The Love Burn as a pushcart.

Anti-SaneCraft ARTillary power boost – PyroCelt

I have a delightfully wonderful propane flame effect canon called that Anti-SaneCraft ARTillary, which comes to Transformus, most years. It was originally an art grant, and it mounts two large propane accumulators on a pan and tilt steampunk artillery piece. It poof about 20 to 30 foot balls of fire (that is pretty big, and certainly on the top side of what flame effects can do), has intricately carved handles that are a pleasure to operate with both the ladies and the boys just yearning to fire it.

Softly – FUNKBIRD

This display is an opportunity for the viewer to interact with the piece and discover the multiple angles of its inner luminosity. The nestling spheres and textures of the surface treatments optically distort and refract the bright LED lights within. The lit interior extends a warm, translucent illumination to the smaller, sandblasted and oil painted glass components that mimic flowers and aquatic life, the wonder of nature being an influencing element in my work.

Robot Cart Project – Dooka

Robot Cart – A Mobile Sound Art Cart – Inspired Parody Art to Major Burning Man Sound Camps and Mutant Vehicles on the playa – Bringing the beautiful sounds of the playa to the mountain. We bring epic DJ sets from Burning Man to Transformus with a little parody fun.

Josephine the Colossal Skeleton Marionette – Christian Breeden

Josephine the Colossal Skeletal Marionette! She is built to colossal proportions three times that of a six-foot- tall human. Her bones are crafted of hammered sheet metal and scrap iron to the likeness of a medical model. She is fully articulated and interactive, being a puppet that can be controlled by people on the ground via a system of ropes and pulleys!