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Disorient is a camp at Burning Man

Disorient has been a camp at Burning Man since 2001.

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Preparations are under way for our camp at BM 2025 (Discord link)

Disorient at BM 2024

In 2024 our camp was located at Esplanade & 2:15. Land dimensions were 200 ft. wide by 400 ft. deep. 2024 Black Rock City Plan
We were 164 campers. Camp planning discussion took place on this Discord channel.

Following our GlamTech mantra, D24's Urban Plan was organized around a central "spine" made of four pairs of containers. Campers' quarters were under shade structures flanking the Spine.

Our main sign installed on the Esplanade side of the Club House was the 20' tall CoSign that spelled "Di...".

It was flanked by the LithuMania Lounge, the Smile, the Urn and the Miso and Marshmallows Lounge on the 2 o'clock side and by the Hut on the other side.

A pair of Neil's Skytrackers were our beacon at night while the second pair traveled around the playa.

The Club House was the central experience space of our camp where Talks with special guest Ignite Talks on Wednesday, Amp'd Yoga, and other events were held. In 2024, a new shade system was created for this 2600 square ft. pentagonal space made of pallet racks. Our Tea House was in a separate, more private hexagonal space adjoining the main structure.

CH24 was animated with several new Puff Tech Signs and other installations from different cells within Disorient. Dozens of DJs played--mostly slow house--night and day.

The Unmed tent, our unofficial medical tent, was a destination within camp where campers and friends could relax, refresh and rejuvenate when needed. The Duke's, Disorient's speakeasy, was redesigned and augmented in 2024.

An impromptu burst of energy transported a cluster of our Pornj sofas on the other side of Esplanade where they resided for a few days before becoming a traveling installation that was deployed at Opulent Temple, our neighbor's camp, for a night. KDIS Radio Disorient broadcasted mostly during the day.

Finally, the Lantern, a new light piece created for D24, was holding space between the Club House and the Spine.

Disorient is a collective

Disorient is a sound, visual and performance art collective. We create art projects and art installations with hardware including wood, scaffolding, palette rack, containers, recycled materials, your body, Raspberry Pi, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, black lights and vehicles. We develop software for our installations.

Our guiding principles are outlined in the Disorient Model and in the Political Economy of Disorient. Disorient is an open creative platform powered by love.

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  D-Shirts over the years

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  D24 Lantern

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  Pornj Star 2009, NYC

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  Let's Go Camping

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  Video Sign ADXiX

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  CCXi, 2023

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  CoSign at D22

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Our contribution to the vernacular includes Pornj and GlamTech.

Disorient ecosystem

When we are not on the Playa, we organize events, retreats and happenings. Funds raised during those events help support our art projects on and off playa. Following our economic model, 100% of profit is reinvested in Disorient.

Those include Country Club (since 2011) upstate New York, Bedouin Tech (2014-2018) in the desert of Dubai and Fun Tsang (since 2016) on the beach of a tiny uninhabited tropical island of Hong Kong. Those outdoor camping retreats last several days and are aligned with the Burning Man ethos. In September 2021 we organized the first Burning Mantap in Bali, Indonesia.

Our first fundraisers outside the US happened in 2009 in Brazil and Argentina

Thousands of DOers (DisOrienters) have camped with Disorient at Burning Man since 2001. About half of those campers are in the US. The other half is distributed in dozens of other countries. We use Discord and other platforms to stay connected.

Too Much Is Rarely Enough.