Where to Go
Back to Top of ListThis year, IGNITE Broward shines bright across four distinct locations, each offering its own atmosphere and way to experience art through light, sound, and technology.
In Dania Beach, festival-goers can start their journey at MAD Arts, an art and technology museum that immerses audiences in both high- and low-tech experiences. During the festival, MAD Arts will showcase more than 13 new works alongside artist-led events and workshops, featuring immersive projections, sound-based installations, interactive media, and debut presentations from emerging local artists. Open daily from noon to 10 p.m., it’s an easy first stop before continuing on to other festival locations.
In Fort Lauderdale, Reverend Samuel Delevoe Memorial Park offers a wide-open setting for exploration, with six installations spread across the park’s lake fountain, courts, and surrounding grounds. The park also sets the tone for the festival with the official IGNITE Broward kickoff on Friday, February 13, including a live performance by breakdance crew BREAKINMIA.
In Downtown Hollywood, seven installations transform ArtsPark at Young Circle into a shared creative space, featuring responsive environments, illuminated seating, projection-based works, and interactive experiences that invite visitors to slow down, move through the space, and spend time together.
Rounding out the experience, IGNITE Broward expands into a new and unexpected setting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Beginning in late January and continuing through February 22, interactive installations will greet arriving and departing travelers, offering a creative gateway into Broward County’s art and technology scene.
Who to See
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IGNITE Broward brings together a dynamic mix of local, national, and international artists, each contributing their own unique perspective to the festival's immersive installations. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the visionary artists and where to find them:
Mad Arts
Where: 481 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach, FL 33004
When: Daily from noon to 10 p.m.
Artist: Guillaume Marmin
Work on Display: “Oh Lord!” - A data-driven work using solar observation research to examine humanity’s evolving relationship with the sun as a cosmic guide, political symbol, and source of fear and hope.
Artists: Dr. Weidi Zhang & Dr. Jieliang (Rodger) Luo
Work on Display: “A Walled City” - An interactive installation transforming participant-submitted images into an evolving virtual city inspired by Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City.
Artist: Dr. Weidi Zhang
Work on Display: “Wayfarer 3.0” - An AI-driven installation reimagining the mythical Tiangou through shifting celestial scenes, tracing its evolution from wandering star to moon-devouring force.
Artists: Homegrown Visuals & Akomi
Work on Display: “Face the Raster V2” - An audiovisual installation where guest likenesses are captured and transformed in real time through oscilloscopes, soundscapes, and analog-digital experimentation.
Artist: Samantha Salzinger
Work on Display: “Sugar Coated” - A candy-colored, hand-built fantasy world that reveals fractures beneath its sweetness, examining excess, decay, and the addictive nature of manufactured pleasure.
Artist: Performance in Flux
Work on Display: “Body and Technology” - A program of live performances and videos exploring how contemporary bodies interact with sound, light, machines, and media.
Artist: Miguel Gonzalez
Work on Display: “In Search of Light 2” - An immersive VR and laser-based installation tracing humanity’s evolving philosophical, spiritual and technological relationship with light.
Artist: Ana María Caballero
Work on Display: “Pace” - An audiovisual work blending dance, AI-generated environments and performative poetry to propose that private joy and deeper self-connection can be catalysts for systemic transformation.
Artist: Darius V. Daughtry
Work on Display: “To Catch a Ghost” - A poetic multimedia experience composed of three poem videos and a site-specific installation created in collaboration with MAD Arts.
Artist: The Last Human Collective
Work on Display: “Last Human” - An immersive experience exploring identity, authorship and deception within a decaying digital landscape shaped by bots, deepfakes, and algorithmic identity.
Artist: Playmodes
Work on Display: “VJYOURSELF!” - An interactive dance installation where participants dance with repeated, time-shifted versions of themselves through real-time effects.
Artists: MAD Art & Tech Studio Program Participants - Liv Cook, Mark Espinoza, Richard Vergez, Alejandra Abad, Corina Lipavsky, Astrid Maldonado, and Claudine Julien
Works on Display: Artist Studio Program Presentation in MAD Yard - Projection-mapping works developed over a six-month curriculum with mentors Jaime Reyes, Peter Burr, and Amir B. Jahanbinir.
Artist: Dostoopos
Works on Display: Series of Films - A looping selection of experimental films that explore image plasticity, movement and sound through found footage, animated collage, negative manipulation, and Super 8 film.
Artist: Phil Evans
Works on Display: “Super Zone” - A 10-minute Super 8 cine video loop animation showcasing analog texture and handcrafted spontaneity, presented in the Cine Lounge at MAD Arts and accompanied by a Super 8 animation workshop.
Reverend Samuel Delevoe Memorial Park
Where: 2520 NW Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
When: Friday and Saturday from 6-11 p.m.; Sunday through Thursday from 6-10 p.m.
Artist: Daniel Popper
Work on Display: “Mycelia” - A wood and fiberglass sculpture inspired by fungal networks, symbolizing interconnection, shared consciousness, and the cyclical relationship between humans and nature.
Artist: Pneuhaus
Work on Display: “Grove” - An immersive sculptural environment of illuminated columns branching overhead, inspired by underground root systems and the exchange of energy between trees.
Artist: Chalk River Labs
Work on Display: “APOGEE” - A projection-mapped, synthwave-infused installation transforming simple structures into a dreamy cosmic playground.
Artists: Jaime Reyes & Erik Natanael
Work on Display: “Echoes of sys|calls” - A large-scale audiovisual installation translating computational rhythms into a sensory landscape shaped by visitor movement.
Artist: Oliver Lewis
Work on Display: “Up-Next” - An interactive sculpture resembling a 1980s TV set, with 28 kaleidoscopes forming the screen and producing unique geometric animations.
ArtsPark at Young Circle in Hollywood
Where: 1 N. Young Circle, Hollywood, FL 33022
When: Friday and Saturday from 6-11 p.m.; Sunday through Thursday from 6-10 p.m.
Artist: Loop
Work on Display: “Geist” - An interactive installation using mirrors, LEDs and viewer movement to create a floating, shifting sphere of light.
Artist: Onda Studio
Work on Display: “Where are we Going?” - An interactive web-based audiovisual work prompting reflection on collective direction and the influence of technology on human behavior.
Artist: Pneuhaus
Work on Display: “Helix Seats” - An interactive public seating installation featuring intertwined,
pressure-responsive helices that illuminate with movement and invite communal engagement.
Artist: Studio McGuire
Work on Display: “Ascendance” - A projection-based journey following an astronaut adrift in a dreamlike cosmos, reflecting on fragility, isolation, and impermanence.
Artist: ITHACA Studio
Work on Display: “Sea of Light” - A responsive installation of thousands of animated lights that transform landscapes into immersive environments shaped by audience interaction.
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
Where: 100 Terminal Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
When: Open 24/7 (access varies per installation)
Artist: Daniel Popper
Works on Display: Prototypes of “AEONIUM” & “Mycelia” - Original prototypes developed by the artist as the foundational studies for his large-scale installations.
Location: Terminal 1, Arrivals Level (Baggage Claim Area), pre-security
Artist: O, Miami
Work on Display: “Interactive ZipOdes Map” - A public interface inviting audiences to explore South Florida through hyperlocal community-written poems generated from their own zip codes.
Location: Terminal 2, Arrivals Level (Baggage Claim Area), pre-security
Artists: Brian Fox / Media Pollution
Work on Display: “PCC-3333: Will robots dream of World Peace?” - A robotic work that explores the relationship between art, science and human connection constructed entirely from recycled materials.
Location: Terminal 3-4 Connector, Departures Level, post-security
Artist: Robin Baumgarten
Work on Display: “Quantum Jungle” - An interactive installation using touch-sensitive springs and LEDs to playfully visualize quantum physics concepts, sparking curiosity in both children and adults.
Location: Terminal 3, Departures Level, post-security