Art Installations

The Delight Factory commissions ambitious, site-specific art to provide playful and inspiring experiences. We currently host three installations by two amazing artists.

Oculus Root by Kate Raudenbush

Oculus Root by Kate Raudenbush

Vibe Check by Todd Polenberg

Vibe Check by Todd Polenberg

Annelid by Todd Polenberg

Annelid by Todd Polenberg

Oculus Root

by Kate Raudenbush

Woman wearing a cowboy hat, sleeveless shirt, gloves, and utility tools, standing outdoors with a large metal sculpture in the background.

Oculus Root (2021) is Raudenbush’s first indoor installation. The portal invokes the balance between grounding and vision, and marks the passage between the two interior spaces at Delight Factory.

(Powder-coated laser-cut steel, LED)

Kate Raudenbush is a New York-based, Burning Man-bred artist, who resonates deeply with environmental issues, and the perils and potential of our evolving humanity. She is a creator of monolithic, immersive & allegorical sculpture works that aim to catalyze social engagement, and shift consciousness while exploring themes that range from technological sustainability to creation myth, and from self-empowerment to environmental awareness. Raudenbush synthesizes structural steel, mirror and L.E.D. light programing to construct conceptual work that is developed through 3D modeling software, and CNC laser-cutting, which results in the fabrication of publicly commissioned artworks to precise structural engineering standards.

Vibe Check

by Todd Polenberg

A man with short hair and a beard, wearing a black T-shirt, is standing behind a DJ mixer with various electronic music equipment, in a club or event space. In the background, there's an audience seated and watching, with some people wearing glasses, and the room has a decorative wall with a pattern and disco balls hanging from the ceiling.

Vibe Check (2023) is an interactive audiovisual environment that explores the use of synchronized light and sound to create a visceral psychedelic environment. It is composed of 1571 LEDs, two speakers, a single knob, and the entire available spectrum of vibes.

This environment will not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light.

Todd Polenberg is an award-winning artist, engineer, and electronic musician who works with light and experimental sounds to create interactive audiovisual environments and sublime otherworldly experiences. With a practice spanning the past 25 years, his work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin, Mysteryland, Burning Man and featured in Forbes and Forward magazines.

Annelid

by Todd Polenberg

A DJ with short dark hair and a beard wearing a black shirt performing with electronic music equipment in a dimly lit room with a patterned wall and audience members in the background.

Annelid (2022) is a light-based artwork, a fully algorithmic meditation, and a loamy translation of the organic into the digital. As each moving lightform is birthed, given a lifespan, form, and behavior, and then disperses, it never repeats, generating a parametric infinity of motion.

Todd Polenberg is an award-winning artist, engineer, and electronic musician who works with light and experimental sounds to create interactive audiovisual environments and sublime otherworldly experiences. With a practice spanning the past 25 years, hHis work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin, Mysteryland, Burning Man and featured in Forbes and Forward magazines.