Museum of Exploration and Innovation 2018-19

MOXI -- The Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation -- opened in Santa Barbara, CA in early 2017. The museum has welcomed over 175,000 visitors in its first year and has been listed by Fodor's Travel as one of the top 10 new museums in the world. MOXI's mission is to ignite learning through interactive experiences in science and creativity. The museum has dedicated two spaces to rotating 3-month interactive media artworks: the Interactive Media Theater and the Bridge.

This call represents MOXI's first open application process for artists and art collectives to propose works for 2018-2019. Recent artworks have incorporated elements such as Kinect-based body interaction, camera-based interaction, virtual reality and augmented reality. Exhibits must be designed to be highly durable and robust to any kind of interaction from adults and children, including climbing, hanging, pushing and pulling.

Artists are asked to submit a 3 paragraph exhibit proposal summary for either one or two exhibits, including up to two embedded images in the PDF and an estimated total budget. Budgets can be up to $10,000, inclusive of all artist fees, travel, hardware, software, fabrication, installation, etc. Lower budgets may increase likelihood of funding. Up to six qualified applications will be chosen, and those artists will be offered $200 each to develop a more detailed exhibit proposal including drawings, detailed budget and reference letters, and to have one or more interviews with MOXI's committee. The review committee will examine: quality of the artist's past work (aesthetic and technical), experience creating interactive artworks, experience designing and completing durable public artworks on time and within budget, artist training and education, and quality of the proposed interactive exhibit and alignment with MOXI's mission and audience. Entry fee: $25.00. Work sample requirements: 3-14 images, 0-2 audio files, 0-4 video files, 3-20 total samples.