Do you love art? Really? So do we! That's why this years' Foo Fest will be JAM PACKED with different artist installations and games, all built and designed specifically for the fest! These games will last all day and through the night, so no matter what time you get here - you'll be sure to find something to tickle your fancy! Check out the tricks and treats these artists have in store for you:

• AS220 Community Printshop: T-Shirt Shoppe
  Stop by to screenprint your very own Foo Fest T-Shirt! We'll have many other designs to choose from so you can learn the fine art of printmaking while stepping up your summer wardrobe with a hip new shirt!
  
  
• AS220 Labs
  Twiddle some knobs and solder some wires as you witness the very latest in folk technology here at AS220! The Labs is a teaching space, workspace and community junk pile for supporting open hardware and software projects. We help build new technically literate audiences and communities of artists by running workshops and providing access to tools such as those of the Providence Fab Lab.
  
  
• Broad Street Studio
  Check out new work from AS220's youth artist collective! Featuring the Product Development Team, Action Painting Performances
  and the new BSS Marching Band!
  
  
• Raphael Lyons: Inflatable LED Floats
  Raphael Lyon is an installation and sound artist specializing in the
  production of wonder in dark spaces, magic in the lit ones, and meditations on the shape of life. As "mudboy" he performs music, shows internationally, and is represented by the Mountainfold gallery in New York. Recent installation work, uses interactive LED technology controlled by programmable microchips to mimic chaotic patterns found in the natural world.
  
  
• Will Reeves: Giant Medicine Ball
  60 silver fitness balls that are 55 cm (21 in.) diameter plus a 1000 feet of black polypropylene cord to bind them all together to make a truncated icosahedron 8-9 feet round equals a mobile, interactive, cleanable, soft, and massive sculpture. Try saying that 10 times fast!
  
  
• Will Brierly: Video Game Arcade
  Will Brierly makes home made video arcade games from scratch. He designs and builds the consoles, the graphics and even the music and sound affects.The whole kit and caboodle. Get Outta My Face a jittery, slightly psychotic action game about a blue cube who has to dodge a rush of red cubes, debuted at last years AS220 Fools Ball. This year at Foo Fest, Will is premiering three new video arcade games. Eat your heart out Atari.
  Read an interview here!
  View the Get Outta My Face Promo Video!
  
  
• Wooly Productions: Wooly Mini Golf
  Wooly Productions, a small events company based in Providence that specializes in participatory art events that engage the community and promote local creative talent. Wooly Productions will be installing four "holes" of innovative mobile mini golf course for Foo Fest.
  
  
• The Zine Factory Will Make Demands and Provide Results!
  The NUA zine team is gonna bring their skills to the streets with participatory on-demand publishing panash! When you arrive at the bus{oh yeah did we mention our Zine Factory will be contained on a 25’by 8’ bus?} there will be a station where you will get an image screen printed onto the t-shirt off your back{robes will be provided!} While you wait for your shirt to dry you can contribute a page to our compilation zine which is asking the question “Where have you been? Where are you going?” Those who decide not to get a print on their shirt can contribute too! After making your zine page you will receive a ticket to come back and receive your copy of the zine at 6ish, complete with screen printed cover! Our submissions period will close at 5 and production will ramp up- we will have a copier on the bus in addition to our printshop for covers.On hand throughout we will have some collage and drawing materials, a type writer, and a little bit of ink!
  
  
• Erik Carlson, Erika Capenter, Eric Gould: Found Ground
  FOUND GROUND is composed of found, collected and remixed 8mm home-movies and text, projected large on “new-found” ground of Providence — in this case, on walls recently exposed by downtown demolition. 1950’s-70’s footage of vacation travels, roadside views and scenes of home will be projected on surfaces that reveal a co-mingling of interior and exterior finishes (bathroom tiles, wallboard, bare brick, doorways) as part of a project that seeks to explore how we as Americans discover, imagine, inhabit, consume and lose the known spaces around us. With its homemade images, FOUND GROUND looks at the broad American landscape through the lens of some of our most intimate cultural ideals (home, family, travel, leisure), with an eye toward establishing new ground for thinking about, and living in, the built and natural spaces we hold among us.
  
  
• Alyn Carlson: Junk Mail Milliner Store
  Using junk mail, particularly the suprisingly beautiful and varied interiors of bill envelopes, Alyn is crafting hats of in many wonderful and varied forms. Alyn is a designer, painter, and a junk mail hat maker!
  
  
• Umberto Crenca: Exquisite Corpse
  The Exquisite Corpse is a game popularized by the Surrealists in in the 1920's wherein contributors would write words or draw images on a paper & then fold the paper hiding their marks and then passing the paper to the next person to add to. The paper is passed around until all participants have added their drawings and then the work is unfolded creating a new collaborative work. Now, instead of an 8.5" by 11" piece of paper, think rolls of canvas, instead of just pencils, think paint, ink, markers, just about any thing that can make a mark, and instead of a parlor of gentleman, think several thousand people at this years Foo Fest, then you can begin to imagine the scope of Umberto Crenca's FooFest Exquisite Corpse Project.
  
  
• Mobile Art Project presents Aqua Alta by China Blue
  Hera Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with Independent Curator, Viera Levitt, presents Mobile Art Project's first exhibition: Aqua Alta. This sound installation, created by artist Chin Blue utilized specialized recording equipment to capture the unique sounds of water lapping against the shores in Providence's canals and Naragansett Bay lagoons and under and around the gondolas.
  This work inspired by the environmental effects of global warming will be presented in a 16-foot box truck equipped with comfortable benches for listing and discussing the work.
  vieralevitt.org/mobileartproject.htm
  
  
• DC401: "FooSimon"
  DC401 is the local Defcon Group for Rhode Island. DC401 is a gathering for folks interested in the alternate applications of modern technology, referred to properly as 'hacking'. DC401 meetings are open to anyone, regardless of their skill, age, job, gender, etc. DC401 is here to help you learn new things, meet new people, mentor others in areas you may be strong in, and provide some cohesion within the hacker culture and it's members.
  
  
• Serena Elston: "Lytch Gate for AS220"
  Serena JV Elston received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a focus in both Sculpture and Architecture. A new kid on the block here in Providence, she has just joined up with the Onleyville’s feminist artist collective, The Dirt Palace. She was apart of the artist group The Tinderbox in Brattleboro, VT for three years till it’s closing in December 2009. Her creations demonstrate the possibilities of human power through an intimate understanding of material. Putting the ridiculousness into the ‘hand-made’ world of art, she animates wingnuttey wherever her humongous projects sit themselves. Past works include a Portable Suspended Banquet Hall, Twenty-person Dinner Table, Two-Story Yurt, and a Forty-Foot Lady Tiger Snake. She has future plans to cover the world in cozy hammocks and to one day build a castle on US soil with a velladrom full of skateboarders as its motte. She will be teaching a Workshop on Green Carpentry in September here in Providence (if interested email her at serenajve@gmail.com). To see images of her past works check out www.flickr.com/photos/serenajve/
  
  
• M. Sweet Rubbin: "Good Rubbins"
  An amateur mobile massage parlour
  
  
• Providence Anarchist Book Fair
  The Providence Anarchist Bookfair affirms and promotes values of mutual aid, anti-authoritarianism, direct democracy, autonomy and solidarity. Connect with regional and local organizations and activists! With workshops and distro tables from: Just Seeds, South End Press, IWW, Autonomedia, Symposium Books, NEFAC, Rising Tide Boston, Lucy Parsons Center, Farmacy Herbs and much more!
  
  
• Tom West's Cut Hole Portraits
  
• Ben Fino-Radin and Eamon Brown
• Lauren Fisher: Pancake Portraits
• David Phayre: Video Projections
• Recycle-A-Bike: Valet Bike Parking
  
• Kidoinfo: fun stuff for kids!