YOUR MULTI-SENSORY HOLIDAY ESCAPE AWAITS

CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS IN SPECTACULAR STYLE

About the Exhibit

ARTECHOUSE HOLIDAY SPECIAL

The holidays return to ARTECHOUSE with Spectacular Factory – The Holiday Multiverse; our annual celebration of creativity and wonder.

Step inside an ever-evolving world of a holiday digital artistry where lights dance, sounds shimmer, and imagination takes the lead.

In the annual ARTECHOUSE Holiday Special, unwrap kaleidoscopic winter realms, witness the dazzling world of a gift factory brought to life, and get swept away by dreamlike holiday themes

Soothe your senses and ignite your imagination with our interactive, immersive auxiliary installations, and connect with light in new ways through Intangible Forms with Shohei Fujimoto.

In a time when the world feels louder than ever, ARTECHOUSE Holiday Special offers a celebratory retreat for your mind, body, and soul.

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Spectacular Factory – The Holiday Multiverse
Step inside a dazzling gift factory brought to life through art and technology. Be swept into a dreamlike world where familiar holiday icons like gleaming bells, swirling candy canes, nutcrackers, and glittering trains transform into a symphony of motion and light.

Intangible Forms
Shohei Fujimoto, a Japanese multimedia artist, transforms light into movement to examine the unseen forces binding all living beings. Each piece becomes a meditation on humanity’s search for meaning amid the rhythms of chaos and order.
*Please note that this exhibition features lasers, strobes, and water-based haze effects and is not recommended for those with a history of light sensitivity.

Gift Jukebox
Beyond the Immersion Gallery, stumble into Spectacular Factory’s whimsical gift warehouse. Use the joystick controls to reveal what’s inside each digitally delivered gift box, where each selection triggers a unique sound or melody, turning the experience into a playable holiday jukebox.

Ice Crystal Baubles
Craft dazzling, animated ice crystals using your own movements as you become a part of the artwork. Using motion tracking, each movement shapes luminous ornaments projected in real time, merging human gesture with digital craftsmanship.

ISEKAI Dialogues: Sora Holiday Edition
Inspired by anime’s imaginative storytelling, converse with virtual characters rendered in real time. This AI-driven interactive installation turns advanced technology into a living personality, adding warmth and wonder to the social space.

It’s Turbo Time by Gavin Shapiro
In our infinity room, internationally acclaimed digital artist Gavin Shapiro brings his signature humor and precision to the Holiday Spectacular with a looping animation of flamingos skiing and dancing through snowy mounds dotted with Christmas trees and gift boxes. 

Fusing flawless motion design with absurdist joy, the piece radiates energy and color, embodying the playful optimism of the season.

ASMR Instruments
In this interactive series, create your own calming soundscapes using instruments designed from ASMR triggers. 

Each instrument combines tactile feedback, soft lighting, and gentle motion to evoke the sensation of touch and relaxation through play.

Oddly Satisfying
The set of Oddly Satisfying interactive installations is a curated collection of experiences that combine ASMR’s visual and sensory appeal with the hypnotic satisfaction of precise, repetitive actions and seamless patterns in the aptly named online phenomenon.

On this sensory journey, leave feeling mentally refreshed and subtly delighted through simple interactions informed by the science of ASMR.

Join us for an experience where tradition meets innovation, and the warmth of the holidays is reimagined through cutting-edge digital artistry. Let ARTECHOUSE Houston Holiday Special be your space for reflection, relaxation, and the rediscovery of joy.

About the artist

ARTECHOUSE STUDIO

Powered by passion, ARTECHOUSE Studio is an interdisciplinary collaborative culture working at the forefront of art and technology to develop, produce and present world-class technology-driven exhibitions and the most advanced presentation platforms that ignite the imagination.

Over the years, ARTECHOUSE Studio has collaborated with artists and industry-leading organizations — like NASA Society for Neuroscience, Pantone Color Institute, Nobel Prize Museum, and more — bringing their expertise to realizing and producing complex and multifaceted presentations.

About the artist

SHOHEI FUJIMOTO

Shohei Fujimoto is a Japanese multi-media artist who explores perception and space through the minimal and precise use of controlled light from laser projectors.

Light, time, and autonomy are recurring motifs that traveled throughout Intangible Forms and coded operations serve as a building block for Fujimoto’s process of exploration. Often, he refers to code and the mathematical operations as the invisible markers that create form. Sculpting imagery not in a particular shape, but sculpting the mathematical operations behind the image to give shape. Both intricate and alluring, Fujimoto’s works are prime examples for a new way of drawing and creating visual artworks.

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