Crab Devil’s interactive art to debut during Gasparilla Music Festival
Celebrating its 10th year, the Gasparilla Music Festival takes over Tampa’s eight-acre Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park this weekend, with a three-day lineup of national, regional and local acts on four stages, with food and beverage aplenty, all from local restaurants.
The Gasparilla Music Festival is a cashless event, and accepts credit cards and RFD wristbands, which can be purchased along with event tickets.
Artist Michael Horn works on his installation. “The room cycles through a few different programs; the dancing colors seem almost alive as they respond to your hand or your body,” he says.
The Tampa art collective Crab Devil will be on site, debuting two interactive art installations, “Photonic Vibrations” by Michael Horn, and “The Bait Ball” by Devon Brady.
Brady, Crab Devil CEO, is a multi-media, multi-disciplinary creative, and one of the key players in The Peninsularium, the collective’s upcoming immersive art project in the Ybor Heights district.
Consisting of a connected maze of 24 to 27 repurposed steel shipping containers – each 40 feet in length and fully electrified, insulated and air conditioned – the Peninsularium will be similar to St. Petersburg’s Fairgrounds, with more of an electronic, interactive vibe.
The idea, Brady told the Catalyst in 2020, is to present different artistic interpretations of life in this here Sunshine State.
“The truth is sort of stranger than the fiction of it,” he said. “Any time we introduce a fantasy element to it, we realize that there’s a reality that’s just as strange that we can tie into.”
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“The Bait Ball” will also be on view at the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts March 5 and 6.
An opening date for the Peninsularium has not yet been announced.
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