2024 Dates TBA


ACCelerate Festival

Smithsonian National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 2056

2024 Dates

Dates for the 2024 ACCelerate Creativity + Innovation Festival will be announced soon!

Interactive Exhibits

Sound Arcade

The ACCelerate Festival featured an outdoor sound arcade and projection mapping installation at the National Museum of American History entrance facing the National Mall. The interactive sound arcade contained three rectangular sculptures. During the day, participants were able to interact with the sculptures by using LED wands to experiment with a 3D sound system in real time. During the evening, the project took on visual layer of interaction. The event featured video projection onto the sculptures. Participants used LED interactive wands to illuminate the space in real time. As participants moved around the sound arcade area, data was gathered by their movements and used to create new sounds and illuminations on the projected forms.

Participants: Thomas Tucker, David Franusich, Tanner Upthegrove, Eric Lyon, George Hardebeck, Matthew Swarts (Georgia Tech), Jon Hamilton, Caleb Flood, Aline R.S.S. de Souza, Mahshid Gorjian and Xindi Liu

About

the Festival

The ACCelerate Creativity + Innovation Festival is a celebration of creative exploration and innovative research happening at the intersection of science, engineering, arts, and design from across the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Smithsonian Institution. ACCelerate is programmed by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology and the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Hosted at the National Museum of American History, the multi-day festival is free and open to the public. 

10 +

Participating ACC Schools

50 +

Exhibits

15 +

Awards Given

35k +

Visitors

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ACCelerate Creativity + Innovation Festival

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