interactive art is the creative theme of FIGMENT, a multi-day event that bypasses the traditional gallery wall and celebrates creativity for all. Participants were often costumed, a ten year old girl on stilts made the perfect pink flamingo. There were inflatable sculptures in an interactive blow-up sculpture garden. Artists designed and constructed a miniature golf course. The assembled submissions created an eclectic combination of ideas, as well as a challenging par 36. My favorites included The Yellow Brick Road (The Wizard of Oz), Just Dreaming is Not Enough (alternative energies and sustainability), and Hotel Atlantis at Bikini Bottom (left), a tribute to The General Motors ‘futurerama’ pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. FIGMENT was absolutely free to attend, and describes itself as “an alternative to many of the shortcomings of the commercial art world— exclusive, expensive, impersonal, untouchable and often simply boring”
