Desert X
Coachella Valley Feb.25th, 2017
CODAME will be releasing the ShyBot for the inaugural exhibition of Desert X biennial of art, in Coachella Valley Feb.25th, 2017.
ShyBot is an art project from Norma Jeane, an autonomous, self-driving, human-avoiding rover, solar powered, computer vision enabled and GPS tracked. Join us a try to catch the ShyBot (if you can)
About Desert X
Desert X is a site-specific show that will take place in the spring of 2017. Artists from different parts of the world will be invited to make work that responds to the unique conditions of Palm Springs and the surrounding Coachella Valley.
The desert of Desert X is the blank canvas upon which contemporary artists - like the writers, architects, musicians and other before them – will be invited to project their vision and to create of the extraordinary natural and social history around them objects and experiences that reflect upon the matchless spectacle of the geologic epic, the radical abstraction of the surroundings and the singular incursions of man into the seemingly barren landscape. Unique in that it takes the landscape itself as its exhibition space, Desert X will offer the opportunity to explore both the familiar and the unknown through the eyes of others.
If the desert is indeed God without man, then Desert X is art without constraint.
Participating Artists
Projects
Love the idea of ShyBot actively avoiiding people in the desert landscape. Its the kind of intervention that makes the enviroment itself part of the conversation, not just a backdrop. Using the desert as an exhibition space without constraints lets the work exist in a way galleries can't really match.