2026 Wrap-up Letter

April, 8 2026

Dear ElectricSEA participants,

We’re still riding the wave of what we created together.

Almost two weeks since ElectricSEA, having unpacked our supplies, collected photos together, and heard your stories — we have had time to reflect on our collective experience.

We truly cannot thank you all enough for being part of it—your openness to collaboration and discovery, your generosity in sharing knowledge, and all of your seriously hard work made the ElectricSEA weekend what it was. We invited you to consider the Showcase Exhibition a large-scale collaboration, and saw you take that to heart.

Please see more photos or showcase exhibition map and projects list.

From March 26–28, you all came together in downtown Seattle and turned ElectricSEA into something alive. What could have just been an event became a shared experience—shaped moment by moment through your ideas, your effort, and your willingness to experiment.

Across multiple floors of PublicDisplay.ART and the ArtLove Salon, you built an ever-evolving landscape of projects—installations, experiments, performances, and conversations unfolding in real time. It felt less like something organized and more like something that emerged—through collaboration, curiosity, and care.

Throughout the weekend, we saw:

  • New collaborations forming organically,
  • Projects shifting and growing in unexpected directions,
  • Workshops that became spaces of shared learning and making, and
  • A spirit of experimentation, generosity, and learning by doing.

The range of work you brought was incredible. But more than that, it was the way you showed up for each other that made Electric SEA what it was.

Thank you for building this with us.

Electric SEA Showcase Exhibition + Awards

The weekend culminated in our public Showcase Exhibition, opening the space to the broader community and celebrating the work created over just a few days. We had 28 projects over two floors, including code, light, sound, data, physical systems, interactivity, AI, and beyond. Please see our ElectricSEA Showcase Exhibition Projects summary, which documents the exhibition, including the list of project titles, descriptions, and photos.

We were honored to open the evening with a keynote by Dr. Elizabeth Churchill, exploring creative agency in the age of AI and offering a powerful framework for collaboration between humans and intelligent systems.

We are grateful to Src Material for supporting our 2026 Showcase Awards 🏆

🥇 First Prize — Together Lights, Team: Simran Jagnik, Alex Guthrie, Hexe Fey, Randy Garbrick, Reed O’Beirne
🥈 Second Prize — Kelp at Scale, Team: Desiree Ong, Nicholas B, Anna Czoski

Exhibition

Please see more photos or showcase exhibition map and projects list.

Keep the Conversation Going

  • Please share any links or photos of your projects or the event. Send them via email to Shelly at ThirdPlaceTechologies dot com to be integrated into our sharing channels.
  • Stay tuned to our Discord channel “Electric SEA and SKY”: https://discord.gg/wjxuJBEqNr
  • Follow Third Pace Technologies on our new Instagram account @ThirdPlaceTechnologies. We orchestrate a lot of our activities out of Passable, so we suggest you also follow Passable on Facebook or IG: instagram @Passable.Art, Facebook @Passable.Art.
  • We also highly recommend the Seattle Creative Code discord group, a lively discord for creative technologists.

What’s Next

Electric SKY. From SEA to SKY…please join us at Electric SKY, our art + tech creative retreat returning this summer to the Cascades (July 30 – Aug 2). This year’s theme, SUPER NATURAL, asks artists, designers, and tech creatives to examine the space between nature and technology, where imagination meets the unknown. Whether you’re developing a project, leading a workshop, or simply looking to collaborate, Electric SKY, much like Electric SEA, is an invitation to go further.

👉 Registration is now open Electric Sky Registration 
👉Project grants available — free tickets + up to $500 for materials, deadline Friday May 1st.

PNW Arts and Tech Symposium. Keep your ears to the ground for announcements for our upcoming 2026 PNW Arts and Tech Symposium, to be held in the fall at Cornish, in Seattle. See the 2025 PNW Arts and Tech Symposium documentation here or ask us about our print catalog.

Join Passable. If you really want to get involved, join Passable, our arts/tech collaborative studio, makerspace, and pop-up gallery. Passable is the Seattle home base of a lot of Third Place Technologies’ event production and arts/tech collaboration activities. We also have a collaborative studio and gallery called Sky Artworks in Skykomish, WA, the ideal place for mountain creative retreats.

🙏 Again, Thank You!

We’re so grateful to have shared this experience with you and are excited to keep building this community with you.

We also thank the following organizations for providing the financial, material and operational support that makes an event like this possible at low or no cost for our attendees: ArtLove Salon / Conru Arts Foundation, 4Culture, ArtsFund Community Accelerator Program, Passable.Art, and Totally Legit LLC.

With gratitude,

ElectricSEA Organizing Committee: Shelly Farnham, President, Third Place Technologies; Genevieve Tremblay, Jeff Brice, Andrew Cole, Josh Lind, Jeff Larson (TPT Board); Joseph Gray, Jacob Fennell (Artists, Creative Technologists); Marty Griswold (PublicDisplay.ART); Src Material

Organizing Partners
Third Place Technologies, PublicDisplay.Art, SrcMaterial