
Festival of the Impossible 2020: a Digital Art Exhibition exploring Identity, and the Meaning of Home
Discover the featured artists on Create Magazine
plus Livestream Premiere Event on July 13th at 9am PT
Our exhibition concept, Identity and the Meaning of Home, is relevant now more than ever. As we navigate the current environment, we are releasing a Digital Festival of Impossible that will be accessible online. This year’s issue will be unique and memorable: We will release festival works on July 13th. This event is sponsored by Adobe, and is featuring AR pieces made with Adobe Aero, which you can download here for free. We aim to continue to push creativity and ingenuity in this unprecedented time because we know that remarkable creativity may emerge, especially now.
Featured Artists and Work:
For FOI, Matthew developed a project about the life of a female character named Aislar. This character appears to us through landscapes in New York city, at a time when all is still. Aislar recounts words of wisdom and stories about isolation.
Working together from Japan and Australia, Deena and Luigi have built an AR experience that shows viewers what a trip through Jaguar Jonze’s mind might be like: full of music, playfulness and a little dose of darkness.
Asavari is an avid filmmaker and lover of graphic novels and animation. She combines her design and drawing skills with the use Adobe Aero to tell her story about connection, hope and warmth.
Dan explores his life growing up on the East Coast near the Jersey shore. Sheltering at home with family he began going through old photos and he uses his artwork to reflect on the most important things in his life.
Juan Jose shows us a story about using AR to enter a new reality. Recalling the days when he was young boy and could use his imagination to escape. His new character is now able to leave the confinement of his bedroom and venture to the seashore.
As a multimedia artist, originally from the Soviet Union. and the concept of Home and Identity have always been a subject of exploration in her artwork. For this project she is examining herself and exploring what she may learn while sheltering.
The creative duo from the Adobe team will take you down on memory lane, paved by the significant moments in life. They become building blocks and make the foundation of ones most essential home - the mind itself.
Stuck inside for 4 months in New York City, Gabe’s relationship to bodies and voices has changed entirely, so he decided to explore this topic in AR, a medium that merges both the physical and the virtual.

Festival of the Impossible 2019 Edition