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Created on November 18, 2024

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Exhibition Introduction
Location Map + Installation Breakdown

Team Training #1

HOUSTON HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR

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  • BY ARTECHOUSE STUDIO with Shohei Fujimoto
  • Key themes: Lasers! Exploring technology, perception, & beauty of geometric forms
  • Not altered for the holidays
  • BY ARTECHOUSE STUDIO
  • Immersion Gallery + Auxiliary Installations
  • Key Messages: Toy factory, holiday multiverse, toys come alive
  • 22 minutes in length
  • BY ARTECHOUSE STUDIO
  • New, @ all locations
  • Immersion Gallery + Auxiliary Installations
  • Key Messages: Calm for the Holidays, ASMR, Comforting, Oddly Satisfying
  • 20 minutes in length

HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING

INTANGIBLE FORMS

SPECTACULAR FACTORY

TINGLE BELLS

November 22, 2024 - January 5, 2025

In a time when the world feels louder than ever, Houston Holiday Spectacular: A Multi-Sensory Festive Take-Over offers a celebratory retreat for your mind, body, and soul. Let the delicate sounds and entrancing visuals take you on a journey of holiday nostalgia and joy, creating an oasis amidst the hustle of the holidays.

Who's ready to Holiday!?

Exhibition Introduction

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Whimsical animation from World of AI.Magination (In progress)

Infinite Zoom / WOAI Cut

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Location: Gallery 2 Artist: ARTECHOUSE Studio Look through the intricately shaped factory windows to unveil a charming factory neighbor - a snowy Holiday Village. Stand in front of the windows to wait for a snowfall - you can throw digital snow at your friend next to you through the windows!

Snow Globe Window

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Location: Gallery 2 OLEDsCreate calming soundscapes using interactive digital instruments. Includes instruments such as keyboards, handbells, buzzing, jingle bells, and whisper instruments. Each instrument is designed to evoke ASMR-like tingling sensations. Features visuals and colors inspired by the ASMR aesthetic, including soft hues, warm lights, and gentle animations. Holiday-themed touches include gift wrap visuals and the cozy glow of holiday lights.

ASMR Tactile Instruments

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Ever wanted to experience the pure, messy joy of playing with your food—without the cleanup? Artists: ARTECHOUSE Studio, Systems developed by Josef Pelz

  • A digital playground where math, physics, and technology come together to bring you the oddly satisfying delight of tossing, flipping, and digging into an endless bowl of ramen.
  • Inspired by the sensory thrills of ASMR, this interactive installation lets you enjoy the tingling, carefree sensation of noodle play without any guilt.
  • Interaction: Simply use the hand-tracking sensor to unleash your inner child and explore every way you can imagine interacting with your virtual ramen. Go ahead, let loose, and discover the simple pleasure of playing with your food!

Image courtesy of Google, this is not in the holiday show, I'm just painting an emotional picture

ASMR Ramen Noodles

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XR Scavenger Hunt: Visitors can “help” assemble gifts throughout the gallery spaces by scanning designated image markers through the ARTECHOUSE App. Scan the designated image markers with the ARTECHOUSE XR app, the gifts burst open with Christmas elements & particles on their smartphone screen. A tracker on the app keeps track of all the gifts scanned (as ‘collected’) and the ones yet to be scanned. When visitors scan all the ‘activated’ gifts around the gallery, they receive a reward from the Spectacular Factory! Visitor rewards - Ops team to manage, more information coming soon.

XR-activated images let visitors discover three factory “robots,” the protagonists in the XR Scavenger Hunt, enjoying their holiday-themed hobbies.

The Three Robots XR

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  • Location: Gallery 2
  • This installation allows visitors to become " Factory Operators” through the control panels presented on the touchscreen.
  • Interactions:
    • The switches turn on and off gifts falling from the tubes
    • The knobs change the direction of the motion of the belt (left / off/right)
    • The gravity sliders change the gravity (zero gravity -> heavy gravity)
    • The light sliders adjust the lighting, switching between basic lighting and more colorful environment light (2nd slider adjusts the spin of the colored lights and has a slight effect on the shadows)

Spectacular Factory Falling Gifts

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Location: Gallery 2 Step up to open the factory doors to unveil worlds inside the gift boxes. Each time you open the door, the world changes slightly every time. Interaction: Extend and move your arm towards the display to activate snowballs through the world.

Spectacular Factory: Miniature Village

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Location: Back Hallway The back hallway transforms into Spectacular Factory’s gift warehouse. This is not your ordinary warehouse; Design is evocative of that of a jukebox, so each boy plays music once opened. Interaction: Manipulating the joystick or buttons on the controller box can unveil what’s inside each gift box, brought to you by a drone.

Spectacular Factory: Gift Jukebox

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Scene Set 3 / The Spectacular Bakery

Scene Set 2 / The Desktop Doll Houses

Scene Set 1 / The Blocks

-> Gift Wrap (Crinkling) -> Square Gift Boxes (Color Swatching) -> Square gift boxes transforming into Tetris pieces (Familiarity/Nostalgia) -> Tetris pieces falling -> Tetris pieces transforming into Keyboard Keys -> The walls and floors are transformed into hundreds if not thousands of keyboard keys (Tapping Sound) -> Nostalgia -> Machine Buzzing Sound -> Whisper (inspired sound) -> Modern fireplace -> Juxtaposition and surprises (everyday machines that hide a slice of life scenes) -> Puppies Sleeping -> Mukbang -> Imageries of food -> Mechanical motions (rubix cube) -> Satisfying repeated motions -> Cute, cuddly colors

ARTISTS: ARTECHOUSE Studio, Unclaimed Creatives ASMR mimics the comfort we associate with the holidays—soft lights, gentle sounds, and the feeling of being nurtured or soothed. In times of societal stress, ASMR-themed experiences offer participants a tranquil space to slow down and breathe. ASMR-INSPIRED: Very important, the exhibition takes tropes, audiovisual cues, and such from ASMR, but it's not just an ASMR experience, which is important to have in mind when speaking with guests.

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) refers to the tingling sensation some individuals feel in response to specific sounds or visual stimuli. The phenomenon has gained mass popularity over the last decade due to its calming, stress-reducing properties. It is often tied to videos featuring soothing sounds like soft whispers, tapping, crinkling, or ambient soundscapes. Initially a niche on platforms like YouTube, ASMR has now expanded into mainstream culture, attracting millions of followers globally.

ASMR

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Immersion Gallery: Tingle Bells

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Gift Factory: A welcoming gift factory where all of it begins Nutcracker Party: A wild holiday party of a thousand nutcrackers Infinite Crystal Reflections: A digital Christmas wonderland created in a virtual infinite mirror room that continuously changes its reflections. Bells: Massive bells swing throughout the room with jingle bells ringing all around you Ice Crystals: Float among larger-than-life ice crystals, enthralling guests into winter’s charm. Wreath Ride: A thrilling toy train ride carrying gifts, dipping and swinging through the wreaths Multiverse Holiday Village: Ever-changing mandala of a holiday village that keeps shrinking and growing all around you. Look closely; you’ll see a robot smiling from the windows and others waving outside. (Think a classic holiday village meets Inception) Tinsel Storm: Turbulent winter winds surround guests in the form of tinsel and ribbons (Inspired by deconstructed Christmas trees and elements of gift wrappings) Candy Carousel Land: Familiar holiday candies and cookies form a psychedelic, dreamy carousel around you, spinning and taking you on a psychedelic ride.

ARTISTS: ARTECHOUSE Studio Animation Lead and Design: Emmett Feldman Animation and technical support: Brandon McFarland Music: Original composition and sound design inspired by familiar Holiday tunes by Matt Lange. Plays into familiar Holiday themes and music (Much more traditional IN-YOUR-FACE Holiday) and is shown directly after Tingle Bells in the Immersion Gallery

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Immersion Gallery: Spectacular Factory

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