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Fractal Droid - BM 2022 Honoraria Art Grant SculptureFractal Droid is a collective of
highly calibrated creators with the goal to design, produce, and
build the next evolution of Interactive Burning Man
Sculptures. Working together to build upon our
collective visions, we aim to produce art that will bring
together the community to celebrate and share our knowledge with
one another - accelerating our dreams into reality. The
Fractal Droid Collective consists of some of
the most passion driven artists, digital designers, fabricators,
and creators from around the world. Designed by
Jenna Marie & Aaron Sierra
(Cryptalogik), and the Fractal Droid
Collective, the Fractal Droid will
feature films produced by Dutch Visual Fractal Artist
Julius Horsthuis and American Visual Fractal
Artist Fractaled Visions (Keith Anderson), Glass Chrane
(Steven McCory), Beeple, and more. This project will
be an interactive sculpture to hold space for both inspiration
and philosophy of the integration of man and machine; artificial
intelligence, virtual reality and the modern day human cyborg.
Technology is already an extension of oneself, it is only a
matter of time before we are fully combined with our creations.
The Fractal Droid is a 17 Foot Tall Pop-up Theatre and Sound Stage (Off-Playa) The droid is only 50% built. It still needs top, side, and back-side spine di-bond intelligent lighting systems, back-head steel welding additions, and visor upgrades. However, the droid is not the only thing we are working on - We are also building a massive sound camp with High-Fidelity Speakers at the burn as a new large-scale sound camp for house and bass music where you can experience the droid. Infrastructure, sound, energy, fuel, water, elixir bar, sanctuary dome - all are factors that we are raising money for!
Help us reach our goal and put Austin on the map at
Burning Man as a premiere destination!
Every donation counts - small and
large - and with only a little over a month before we head-out
to build in the dust, we are in dire needs of funds to help
operate our builds from Art Install to Camp Infrastructures. You
can help solve these problems by donating $10 or more - which we
will be sending out a variety different Perks (on the right
column of this page) to our Valued Contributors to put this
dream into action! Anyone donating $1000+ or more will receive
special perks designated to our highest contributors! We hope
you have been enjoying the build thus far and we have been
working day-in and day-out on the collective vision for it's
journey home to Black Rock City. We cannot wait to get out there
and show the fruits of our labor!
If you’re not familiar with the Droid, Jenna Marie Finney
& Aaron Sierra came up with the idea to make a Burning
Man sculpture back in 2019 - collaborating visions seen in
both her paintings and his jewelry. We wanted to make
something that brought together some of the best digital
artists of our time, while still getting to create art
ourselves and share with the community! Fractal Droid was
originated in Austin, born in Chicago - premiering at ARC
Festival, and now back in Austin being staged and ready for
lift-off for Burning Man 2022!
At the moment we have been lucky to raise a healthy
$12,000 on top of our BM Art Grant for our beloved Art
Installation. While we've been building this project in
earnest, the most difficult challenge we face is funding this
sculpture. And this is where we need YOU! Your donation -
regardless of size - helps us to keep building and to keep
sharing our art with everyone.
Here is a high-level breakdown of the associated costs
need to fund the rest of the piece.
Fractoids Garden - Premier Austin-Based Large Scale Sound Camp"Fractoids Garden is the fruits of our Honoraria Art Sculpture Fractal Droid - Our Community"
This year we will be taking a giant leap, setting up a
large-scale sound camp at a premiere destination (10&A)
for Burning Man attendees. By helping fund this extension to
the Art Installation, you are helping grow our community on
and off playa - allowing us to create essential infrastructure
for the future of all our events for when we get back to
Austin! Here is a high-level breakdown of the
associated costs need to fund the rest of the garden.
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Here are the specific break-downs and visions for the major sections of the camp we must raise funds for in order to pull it all off.
Fractoids Garden - Sound Team (Funding Seeking : Transportation Costs and Logistics)
Fractoids Garden has 3 Tiers of Speaker Configurations that we can achieve by raising funds! If we reach Tier 3 we can bring the entire Hennessey Sound System - Purple & Green bicolor. Tier 2 would be Tier 3 cut in half in the amount of speakers we can bring, with Tier 1 being a 24-speaker array of Funktion-One Sound (F121's and Evo7s).
Fractoids Garden - Main Stage (Funding Seeking : Transportation Costs, Logistics, Projectors, Lasers and Scaffolding)
Designed by Jon Imeson for Astronox Festival in Austin, Texas - this gorgeous stage still needs to make it out to the Playa! With rising fuel prices and transportation costs, making the journey out west is harder than ever before. We need your help!
Fractoids Garden - Portal Infrastructure (Funding Seeking : Equipment Rental, Transportation Costs and Logistics)
The Ocindo Story - "A portal of healing, both collective and individual"
Designed by Ariana Filice, Keenan Conway, and Nathan Doherty. The original build was sponsored by Lucidity Festivals, as the 1st place winner of the Santa Barbara Student Art Grant Competition. Made of plywood cutouts, the structure stands approximately 20 feet tall and 25 feet wide. OCINDO’s pieces assemble together in a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle to form its elegant and ethereal design.
Since its conception, Ocindo has taken on a life and meaning of its own
Not long before this opportunity, Ariana's brother - Nico Filice- took his own life, passing over to the other side just weeks before she began her final year at UCSB. When this happened, she knew that the confusion, grief, and endless questions would be enough to break her or make her. More than anything - she just wanted a safe space to connect with him, or find comfort in the space that now existed between them - and she set out to create that.
“Within this connection point between the cosmic and earthly realms, we invite you to… to release all that no longer serves you, into the loving arms of the universe. Energy is never created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred or transformed. What is lost becomes light. Surrender your burdens and watch them transform!”
A cosmic meeting point between our physical reality on earth and all that exists.
A transmutation station, where we can release, or recover, and recalibrate into the center of all that is.
A place for us to connect- with ourselves, each other, and with that which the eye cannot see.
A tribute, to the ones who cannot dance with us in physical form, but who exist in bold and fierce silence within our hearts.
"So many hands and hearts have gone into the making of this project, but there is still work to do and we need your help! The cost of refurbishing, structurally reinforcing, transporting, and building this sculpture on the playa is a big undertaking - but we know that the result will be priceless. We are infinitely grateful for all donations and support." - Arian Filice
Fractoids Garden - Performance Arts (Funding Seeking : Equipment Transportation, White Gas, First-Aid and Medical)
Led by fire contortionist Jordan Remar, our Performance Art Team consists of a variety of talent from Aerials, Contortion, Acrobatics, Fire Dancers, LED Flow Artists, Character Performers, and much more! Our team will be providing the gifts of knowledge to the playa this year - hosting workshops for newcomers and beginners in all aspects of fire and performance arts. We are also scheduling special nights to do open burns with our beloved Pyrotex Conclave family camped close-by at Fractal Droid and Fractoids Garden! Help get your Austin, TX tribe funded - They have put in a lot of labor of love!!
Fractoids Garden - Logistics & Infrastructure (Funding Seeking : Solar & Carbon Neutral Upgrades)
. .Other Funds. .
Fractoids Garden - MOOP Team (Funding Seeking : Trash Grabbers, Magnet Rollers, Soil Sifters)
Fractoids Garden - Elixir Bar (Funding Seeking : Cacao (3rd Eye Cacao) & Hydration Stations)
*- All Perk Packages will roll-out starting August 1st through August 15th -*
Fractal Droid Collective
Honoraria Art Support Camp - Burning Man 2022
Perks
Become a Tier 1 Valued Contributor!
We know you want a beautiful rose-gold pendant! Receive a custom Rose-Gold Fractal Droid pendant and chain that you can wear or share! Also receive a Sticker Pack of 3!
Become a Tier 2 Valued Contributor!
We know you want a beautiful platinum pendant! Receive a custom Platinum Fractal Droid pendant and chain that you can wear or share! Also receive a Sticker Pack of 3!
Top Valued Contributor Package! This package gets you all the perks above and the (1 of 1) Fractal Droid Fundraiser Giclée Canvas. Any Top Valued Contributors after will receive Canvas Giclee's of the Droid's blueprints or another (1 of 1) Canvas of they're choice.
Donations of $1000 or greater will have they're name engraved with other Top Contributors welded inside the droid!
Keys to the Droid! This package gets you all the perks above and the ability to have the droid at any event of your choice in Austin, TX.
Donations of $1000 or greater will have they're name engraved with other Top Contributors welded inside the droid!
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Become a Tier 1 Valued Contributor!
We know you want a beautiful rose-gold pendant! Receive a custom Rose-Gold Fractal Droid pendant and chain that you can wear or share! Also receive a Sticker Pack of 3!
Become a Tier 2 Valued Contributor!
We know you want a beautiful platinum pendant! Receive a custom Platinum Fractal Droid pendant and chain that you can wear or share! Also receive a Sticker Pack of 3!
Top Valued Contributor Package! This package gets you all the perks above and the (1 of 1) Fractal Droid Fundraiser Giclée Canvas. Any Top Valued Contributors after will receive Canvas Giclee's of the Droid's blueprints or another (1 of 1) Canvas of they're choice.
Donations of $1000 or greater will have they're name engraved with other Top Contributors welded inside the droid!
Keys to the Droid! This package gets you all the perks above and the ability to have the droid at any event of your choice in Austin, TX.
Donations of $1000 or greater will have they're name engraved with other Top Contributors welded inside the droid!
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