BuzzFest is an award-winning annual tech-art festival featuring nationally acclaimed electronic music performers and immersive light and sound art installations.
The Bee Cave BuzzFest was created by an interdisciplinary team of artists, designers, technologists, engineers, and creative entrepreneurs to create a huge art and sound installation with video art projections, immersive multichannel sound, original electronic music compositions, and choreographed performances featuring light-reactive props and costumes.
Check out the video below from BuzzFest 2020!
BuzzFest Curators
A public art project featuring the integration of light, art, and sound. This free three-day event hosted by the Bee Cave Arts Foundation, a community-based nonprofit arts organization, in collaboration with the City of Bee Cave and the Hill Country Galleria, transformed this retail center and the surrounding streets into an open-air, urban playground of new media art.
Barna Kantor and Kyle Evans of dadaLab, an organization working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, curated the event. The music portion of BuzzFest is curated by Soundfounder and Butcher Bear of Exploded Drawing. Click below to read more about the minds behind the fest.
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Festival Curator
Kyle Evans is a new media artist, sound designer, educator, and performer. Focusing on the intersection of art and technology, his work commonly explores concepts of hacking, technological failure, and media artifacts. He has produced and presented a wide range of tech-art performance and new media installation work throughout North America and Europe at venues such as MUTEK San Francisco, Transmediale in Berlin, the International Computer Music Conference at Columbia University, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, the Vancouver New Music Festival, and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe. He is a founding board member and instructor at the non-profit institution dadaGeek, board member and composer of the art collective Rolling Ryot, and creator of the tech-art event curation organization CounterVolt. in 2019 he co-founded dadaLab with Barna Kantor to produce immersive, experiential art environments. He is currently an active artist and instructor in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX.
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Festival Curator
Barna Kantor was born in Hungary, received a sociology degree in Budapest, and worked in England and France. He is a graduate of Studio Art, Transmedia at UT Austin, the city where he lived for over 25 years. He was artistic director in media education organizations, programmed a micro-cinema, taught at several Universities and worked on a number of public art projects. He is mainly interested in temporary and permanent place-making – defined as “lending meaning to combined physical and virtual spaces”. In 2016 he co-founded dadaGeek, Austin’s School for Expressive Technology with Lisa Woods. In 2018 he co-founded Rolling Ryot to produce and showcase spatial sound works and in 2019 he co-founded dadaLab with Kyle Evans to create and promote large-scale experiential art environments.
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Music Curators
Exploded Drawing is an organization based in Austin whose aim is to elevate the electronic music community in Texas by encouraging creativity and stimulating conversation in the creative community. Founded in 2010 by Butcher Bear and Soundfounder, the organization has hosted over 400 unique electronic music performances in over 50 official events. In addition to regularly occurring events in Austin, Exploded Drawing has also hosted official sessions in LA, Brooklyn, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Chicago and more.
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