“The Americans for the Arts Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review annually recognizes outstanding public art projects that represent the most compelling work for the year from across the country.”

Inspired by the architecture, the history, and the engineering of the Miami River Armory’s lamela ceiling, artist Ivan Toth Depeña has responded with a light-based art installation. After extensive computer modelling of the space and creating parametric ‘line art’ algorithms, Depeña used the results as a launching point for intuitively ‘drawing’ in three-dimensional space with light.

Depeña has made his mark with public art projects that use the surrounding environment as a design element…

“This is the coolest park and ride in all of CATS,” Mayor Chuck Travis said at a grand opening ceremony on Friday.

“You’ll never look at Miami the same way…”

“One of the hidden gems to be uncovered in Lapse’s scavenger hunt is “The Visions,” a collection of virtual murals…”

“Through groundbreaking augmented reality (AR) technology, Lapse responds to triggers and activates virtual and auditory experiences with a mobile device’s camera lens and sound output.”

“The result is a soundscape that feels as if it’s growing organically, like the movement of pixelated murals on the phone screen, rendering the commute a psychedelic, meditative experience.”

“The idea, though, is that the search takes you to a place you wouldn’t otherwise go. You are rewarded with an amazing view or a nice walk. But Depeña takes it to another level making those prizes these incredible virtual experiences.”

“Imagine that hypothetical event when artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and self- improving. South Florida-born artist Ivan Toth Depeña has seemingly pondered that moment and woven its narrative into his latest project,. one that fuses art and science, reality and virtual reality.”

“It’s a futuristic approach that dissolves the boundaries of physical reality and an alternative, virtual world. I want people to both revere and reflect on our increasingly technologically entwined lives.”

“Unlike so much art that is based in contemporary technology, there are no hard, cold edges here–it’s aesthetically beautiful.”

“I really want a direct visual connection to the music. The goal is to fuse the two dynamically and match the feel of each piece. I’ve always wanted to work with music. Music inspires everything I do. “

Bright 2 is a vibrant selection of architectural illumination and light installation projects that are setting trends in the creative use of light from all over the world.

Made of steel, laminated and tempered colored glass and concrete that will be back lit by LEDs at night, each of Color Fields 18 “tree-like” structures was created using software that generates form algorithmically. For Depeña, this process insured that each sculpture and glass lens is unique…

“There’s an architectural sensibility to Ivan Toth Depeña’s art.”

“Art imitates life in surprising ways. For Miami residents hurrying through the lobby of the city’s 1985 Stephen P. Clark Government Center lobby, Reflect, a permanent, interactive installation by artist Ivan Toth Depeña, does it by capturing their movements in real time, and transforming them into dynamic video paintings that illuminate the building’s columns with vivid moving pixels…”

“Can a building feel and express?  The North Carolina and Florida-based multi-media artist Ivan Toth Depeña believes it can…”

Visitor movement creates a abstracted flow of colour and light in ‘reflection’, an interactive light installation…

With some help from the sun, the immediate surroundings are transformed into an experiential kaleidoscope…

“Reflect” awarded a special mention in the Architizer Awards

One Colorado train station has been treated to an entire spectrum of refracted light with a new permanent public art installation that uses colored glass, the sun’s rays, and LEDs at night to bathe the local landscape in constantly evolving colors.

““I want the sculpture to change constantly and to have a direct relationship with the landscape and the solar system”

“A permanent public art installation in Lakewood, Colorado, transforms a local train station into a place of striking beauty with ever-shifting beams of colored light.”

“…interesting discussion between arts professionals who are definitely participating in and influencing how art and the internet will continue to be intertwined.”

“The resulting array of colorful shadows, which change as the sun moves through the sky and cover every surface in sight, is meant to be kaleidoscopic…”

“The idea dictates the medium…”

“The project will engage the building’s visitors and reference the idea of community through several means of reflection, group interactivity and high-tech playfulness.”

“It’s also important to take risks with public art, discover that “next big artist” and support the careers of local, emerging visual artists.”