PHASE GALLERY
PHASE Gallery features work that blends technology, social impact, and art in new innovative mediums. Creators that work in the realms of both bits and atoms – Digital and Physical matter. PHASE Gallery celebrates the process and technical craft of artists, designers, and engineers creating on the cutting edge and making an impact on their communities.
Currently on view:
THE UNDERWATER: A Socially Engaged Art Project by Xavier Cortada
March – May 2024
THE UNDERWATER by Xavier Cortada
Miami-Dade County artist-in-residence Xavier Cortada engages the public with “The Underwater”, a socially engaged art project debuting at The Phase Gallery in Moonlighter FabLab Miami Beach during The Aspen Ideas Climate Summit and will remain on view through May 31st, 2024. This community-based initiative calls attention to the climate crisis through site-specific yard signs that creatively reveal South Florida’s vulnerability to rising seas, spark climate conversations, and catalyze civic engagement.
Visitors of The Underwater exhibit are introduced to the county-wide initiative, then encouraged to engage in the participatory art project by discovering the elevation of their home, and drawing that number on a blank yard sign. Once residents place these elevation marked signs in their front yard, curiosity from neighbors, friends, and family is instantly sparked as the meaning of the number is unknown to anyone not familiar with the project.
“By mapping the impending crisis, I make the invisible visible. Block by block, house by house, neighbor by neighbor, I want to make the future impact of sea level rise something impossible to ignore. “I hope to engage my neighbors as problem solvers who will learn and work together now to better prepare themselves and their heirs for the chaos to come.”
– XAVIER CORTADA
Exhibition Archive
November 2023 – February 2024
HUMAN X AI/ROBOTIC ART with Robohood
Robohood Founder Vladimir Tsimberg is a Physician, Entrepreneur, and an emerging artist. He created Robohood with the premise that an artist’s ability to put their ideas onto canvas can be inhibited by physical limitations, such as limited visual-spatial perception or a physical disability. Vladimir became convinced that an artist’s physical limitations should not limit their ability to imagine and create. What if everyone can paint with the help of robotics and artificial intelligence? In May 2021, Vladimir Tsimberg teamed up with engineers, programmers, and technology experts to establish Robohood, revolutionizing the arts by introducing robotic painting technology worldwide. Artists can now embark on a new journey by collaborating with a robot adding new depth to the creative process. The artist can program various parameters including painting techniques, strokes, and colors – to develop new iterations of their creative visions. A true robot/human collaboration for an emerging form of art – elevating the abilities of the artist with a new medium for creativity.
July – October 2023
Witch Doctor’s BattleBots Boneyard
For the opening of the exhibition, over 3 Days, Witch Doctor lead a community workshop to teach beginners how to build their own 3D printed 1lb combat robots. The week culminated in a Creative Mornings Talk by Andrea Gellatly, the Team Captain at Witch Doctor, followed by a full day of robot competitions with the newly built bots! Everyone enjoyed the debut of the new exhibition in the PHASE Gallery that highlights battle damaged parts from many fan favorite teams from the popular Discovery Channel competition show.
Inaugural Exhibition
February 2023 – July 2023
RAW.CUT
The Laser Cut Art of Neil Paterson
Architect and artist Neil Paterson blends a knowledge and love of traditional architectural proportions with a joy in the details of odd science fiction references and old machinery to create an intriguing, abstract combination of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Inspired by the spectacular landscapes, textures, and history of his hometown in Scotland.