TELAVAVISION

TELAVAVISION is a 12-foot tall sculptural lava lamp built from wood and 32 salvaged CRT televisions, created in collaboration with Smooth Canoe for Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival 2026 and commissioned by Meta. The piece was designed as a landmark installation for the festival's 10-year reunion at Sunshine Grove, treating a wall of mismatched tube screens as a single unified display surface.

The commission came from Meta - an experience design studio behind some of the most ambitious creative-technology work on the festival circuit (not to be confused with Facebook's Meta). You can see more of their work at meta.is.

We treated the 32 CRTs as a single cylindrical video wall, mapping the entire array in Resolume with custom geometry correction for each tube so the mismatched screens could play back one continuous lava lamp animation. A hardware button on the base let festival-goers randomize the look of the lamp on demand - cycling through color palettes, bubble behaviors, and visual styles throughout the weekend so the piece was always changing for the crowd.

Four webcams mounted on the structure fed live video into a Notch patch, compositing festival-goers' silhouettes directly into the lava lamp bubbles so people could see themselves moving inside the visuals. Additional generative content was driven through Synesthesia (synesthesia.live), rounding out a playback pipeline that ran Resolume, Notch, and Synesthesia side-by-side for a full weekend of continuous operation.