The
15th Annual Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach festival, underwritten by The Alys Foundation,
will
be held May 13-14, 2022.
The
Scenic 30A community of Alys Beach, located along the northwest Florida
coastline, provides the environment for the Digital Graffiti festival, the
open-air, organic gallery for the projections of these original artworks. Staged
against the elegant white walls of Alys Beach, Digital Graffiti provides a
large-scale blank canvas for artists to explore the visual intersection of art
and architecture. The engagement between the art, architecture, and audience is
transformative, creating an immersive and interactive art projection experience
that is entirely unique to the Digital Graffiti festival, named as one of the
top “24 Unconventional Art
Destinations Around the World” by National Geographic.
Artists,
designers, photographers, and architects are invited to submit their artwork to
be projected under the night sky and onto the pristine, reflective white walls
of Alys Beach. This evening festival features the town, buildings and
landscape, illuminated by the latest in design, animation, and projection
technologies; two glowing evenings of innovation and inspiration, with artists
from around the world exhibiting works of projection mapping, generative art,
experimental short films, and animation, as well as sound, motion, and
light-responsive installations.
Digital
Graffiti is a juried festival of original works of digital, projection art. The
2022 awards include Best of Show ($5,000 prize), Curator’s Choice ($2,000
prize) and three Special Recognition honors (at $1,000 prize each), selected by
the festival’s curator, John Colette, and esteemed panel of judges. The Alys
Foundation has donated more than $200,000 in awards and artist stipends
over the past 14 years, all to further digital work in the public realm.