
Creator's Studio
IMI Fest is a space where independent creators can turn their work into a real-world studio experience. Creator’s Studio invites makers, artists, inventors, and engineers to take over small spaces at the festival, showcasing the projects they’ve built and the ideas behind them. Installations blur the line between digital and physical, creating a living gallery of independent creativity and curiosity.
Whether you create stand-alone pieces, interactive experiments, or work that comes alive on camera — what matters is the vision. From the tangible to the intangible, your work deserves to be seen in real life.
Creator's Studio Application
Whether your work is tangible or digital, abstract or hands-on, we’re curating an experience that feels like stepping into a creator’s studio. Applications close October 15th. Have questions about the application? Email us - info@theimi.co
Past Installations

The Real Physics Engine
Engineezy - 2025
A machine that translates a digital simulation into the physical world. As gravity, friction, and chance replace code, virtual precision gives way to real-world uncertainty.

WALL-E in Real Life
Jeremy Fielding - 2025
A full-scale 3D-printed model of WALL-E, developed as part of a build series exploring the creation of a functional, life-sized robot.

Chimera-Inspired Puppets
Jaime Sunwoo - 2025
Developed for the narrative sci-fi project, 'Spoon-Fed,' this work draws from the concept of the chimera to examine hybridity and the boundaries of human intervention.

Precision in Miniature
Chronova Engineering - 2025
Miniature mechanical works showcasing precision and ingenuity at small scale, including a minuscule steam engine running at over 40,000 RPM, a tiny beam Stirling engine, a hand-cranked Sun, Earth, and Moon orrery, a brass tea timer with thermal trigger, and a fully mechanical espresso machine.

Expandable Shelves
Henry Segerman - 2025
Expandable mechanical structures constructed from linked rack-and-pinion systems. With a single degree of freedom, each design shifts from portable compression to expanded form.

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Bobby Duke - 2024
A hand-carved sculpture of a monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, inspired by Noriyuki Saito and rendered with subtle artistic license.

Call Me Ishmael
Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent - 2024
A participatory literary installation that invites visitors to call and leave voicemails about their favorite books. The device turns personal reflections into a collective archive, with the added ability to converse with fictional characters.

Bug Puppet
Barnaby Dixon - 2024
After the original puppet deteriorated, the piece was recreated using digital 3D modeling and 3D printing. The reconstruction bridges its viral origins with contemporary fabrication methods.

532 Cape
Sabetta Matsumoto - 2024
A quilted cape celebrating mathematical tilings of the sphere, constructed from vibrant batik fabric. Based on a stereographic projection of the 5-3-2 spherical tiling, the design transforms geometric symmetry into spiraling color and curved patchwork.

Perspective Garden
Henry Segerman - 2024
A series of 3D-printed optical illusions that depend on exact viewer alignment. From the right perspective, forms transform into impossible geometries and shifting shapes.

Three Body Problem
Stuart Sevier - 2023
A video game simulating stable and chaotic celestial orbits. The shifting dynamics mirror the tension algorithms create between creators and audiences.

Interactive Infinity Wall
Stuart Sevier - 2023
An interactive wall of endlessly populating YouTube videos reflecting the vastness of digital media. A single search term fills the screen with auto-playing results.
