Hapto on a boom lift installing Variable Stars

SARAH DAVITT - HAPTOTROPE ARTIST SERVICES

ARTIST

Based in Milwaukee, WI

Large scale, often retroreflective environments for events, storytelling and social change efforts.

Artist Creative Profile/CV -- PDF

SARAH DAVITT/HAPTO INSTALLATIONS ART, AND EXPERIENCES

MakeZine Artist Interview
Haptotrope Instagram

Series of spaces of global faith - hung the woods for a new environment each summer for the Firefly Festival. 2007-9
Grande Chandelier - Christian and Muslim based faith
Namaste Ke Andar Hai - Hindu based faiths
Variation on Namaste Ke Andar Hai at Boston Decompression Event
Sky Nest - Nature based faiths



BURNING MAN AND OTHER INSTALLATIONS AND PROJECTS

Gallery of portraits and process from Saf-Tea bar, retroreflective material, laser cut traffic cones, LEDs 2019
Gallery of Quilts
  • Event at Makerfaire Milwaukee, using bleach and 6' poles to make fabrics for a borocloth inspired quilt to be collaboratively finished

    Thriftstore Boogaloo: An Event that generated a collaborative art experiences by asking participants make marks simultaneously by using team building strategies and randomized prompts.
  • MMS Thriftstore Boogaloo Event and Collaborative Mural Install
  • Husch Blackwell Summer Associate Thriftstore Boogaloo Event and Charity Auction Event at the Milwaukee Office, and paintings created by the group experience.
  • Holi Themed collaborative painting event, at Milwaukee Makerspace

    INGRESS - MAGNUS REAWAKENS EVENT - CAMP LISTENER, NAVARRO, CA

    Installed in the Redwoods of California, and other venues in collaboration with the video game Ingress/Niantic, over multiple years. These installations used in game language to communicate the backstory and lore of the game. The piece worked with augmented reality/reality feedback loop connected to a game on the mobile phone, and changed the art in front of the viewer with changes in the game.
  • 1.0 Navarro, glyph environment
  • NIA/Ingess walkthrough Hank Johnson part 3
  • 2.0: in the Grand Redwood Cathedral, Cavern of Watchers
  • Cavern of Watchers 2.0 - video walkthrough
  • 3.0: Motherstone, Chicago soundtrack by Living Light
  • 4.0, Motherstone-2, at Milwaukee MakerFaire