Bringing AI to Burning Man Art with Kevin Clark of Reared In Steel

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Some of the most striking art on the playa is wired as much as it’s welded. On this episode of Remotely Local, Ryo Koyama and Mike Johnson sit down with Kevin Clark, founder of Reared In Steel, whose fire sculptures have been lighting up Burning Man for more than a decade. His pieces range from the 26-snake Medusa to the 80-foot Flower Tower and the 110-effect, MIDI-controlled Fire Cathedral. Kevin tells how he got hooked on Burning Man in the early days of the temple movement, helping Jack Haye and David Best. He explains why scale matters when you’re building in the middle of the desert. Mike, who built the control systems behind the pieces, walks through how the tech grew from push…