ARDENT HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Ardent Heavy Industries is a Bay Area industrial arts collective merging aesthetics and engineering. We have been installing large-scale interactive art worldwide since 2004. Our work is a collaboration of artists, engineers, programmers, designers, scientists, and fabricators... Over the years, Interpretive Arson grew in size and scope. With the creation of Syzygryd in 2010 came a shift away from fire art, and Ardent Heavy Industries was created to reflect our expanding interest in other media. Our focus has turned more toward LED art in recent years, but Interpretive Arson still pops up occasionally to run 2πr... We build beautiful things with light, sound, metal, and code. Our members include experts in electronics and software control systems, audio engineering, compressed gas and process controls, and metal fabrication. We value non-hierarchical artistic collaboration and teaching. We work out of American Steel Studios, a wonderful community of artists in West Oakland,..

Also known as: Ardent Heavy Industries, LLC