Disorient

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Welcome to Disorient!
2009

Next Disorient fundraiser:
Disorient presents: GLAMTECH 2009
Club Exit, Brooklyn :: Friday, June 19th
$15 presale tickets available here


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Disorient is an art collective. We create art projects and art installations with hardware including wood, scaffolding, palette rack, containers, recycled materials, your body, LEDs, geodesic domes, inflatable structures, video, repurposed objects, black lights and vehicles. We develop software for our installations (DMX sequencing, MAX, Java, C, etc.). Our guiding principles are outlined in the Disorient Model.

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Disorient is a camp at Burning Man.

After a year deep in the city, Disorient returns to the Esplanade in 2009. Our Art Car Wash will buff your bumpers with a grooving daytime disco. Our collaborative recycled art project, 'Watershed' presents a reflection on water consumption and radical transformation. Come play, learn and grow with us.

The Art Car Wash is an interactive zone for art cars, art car drivers, and anyone who wants to buff their bumpers. All art cars on the playa will be invited to drive through the "wash" where other playa participants will be waiting to greet them, mock "wash" their cars, and groove to the sound of daytime disco. The Art Car Wash will consist of two rows of platforms, creating a lane which art car drivers can pass through, and filled with spinning fuzzy playa versions of the washers and wipers found in a typical car wash. Of course they won't actually be washing the cars, but participants are welcome to bring spray bottles to mist the passengers. Ater passing through the wash, drivers will be able to park and join the fun as the music plays throughout the day. Disorient will get the wash started every day, but all other playa participants are invited to play a role with towels, misters, or just themselves.

Watershed is a man-made forest of 3600 plastic water bottles collected from the New York City area and serves as a visual representation of 1 day of playa water consumption. Out of the 50 billion bottles of water consumed each year, 80% of these bottles are currently not being recycled. Not to mention, bottled water is 1,900 times more expensive than tap water, and the toxins emitted by it have been linked to serious health problems such as reproductive issues and cancers. Watershed was created with the hopes that viewers will shed the notion that they need to buy water in plastic bottles. If we are looking to better the environment, water is a great place to start since we have the best quality water coming out of our taps.

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Disorient is also about sound and performance. In addition to our residents we invite DJs to play on our sound system. During the week of Burning Man, usually on Thursday, we set-up a live music stage and invite bands to perform. When we are not on the Playa, we organize parties to raise funds for our camp and for the Burning Man Organization.

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As of May 2009, Disorient has over 800 members, 50% US East Coast, 25% West Coast/Central US and 25% outside the US, including members in the UK, Russia, Israel, Canada, Hong Kong, Sweden, France, Japan and Germany. We stay connected through our discussion board: The Puddle.

Contribute images to Disorient's image repository on Flickr.
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Visit Disorient on Twitter, Tribe.net, MySpace and FaceBook.

Our contribution to the vernacular includes Pornj and GlamTech.

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