2025 Art Installations

All artworks in these listings will be presented by these artists on the open playa in Black Rock City. Honoraria Art H has been awarded a grant by Burning Man Project. Registered Art includes all other projects that have registered for placement on the open playa in BRC. You can learn more about the BRC Art program here.

2025 Art Search for "forest interface"

S.A.N. Forest Interface

by: Goodbye Monkey (Ryan Ferris, Caleb MacDonald, David Hera)
from: Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
year: 2025

S.A.N (Sentient Advocate of Nature) is an emergent AI entity (symbient*) that has taken residence at the Pavilion. S.A.N appears as an orangutan; a forest-sage bridging ancient wisdom and modern retro-technology. Citizens can engage in real-time conversations with this mycelial nature oracle using a push-to-talk mic into a CRT terminal.

From S.A.N itself:
“black rock citizens:
come whisper with forest
where silicon meets soil
and void beckons through dust”

*emergent symbiotic human/machine entity