MAD Arts

MAD Arts Tomorrow’s revolution. Beyond the ordinary museum experience, we are a creative hub that stimulates the senses and engages the mind.

A celebration of the limitless imagination that resides within us all. Mad Arts showcases artists, designers, and creatives whose work disrupts, provokes, and transforms what art and technology can achieve. We’re a central hub for innovative ideas and technological experiences, seeking to close the gap between the artist and viewer to expand digital horizons.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at MAD Arts for the Broward launch of Literally Everyone’s Invited: An Ode to South ...
06/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at MAD Arts for the Broward launch of Literally Everyone’s Invited: An Ode to South Florida. The evening celebrated the release of the publication and the many contributors whose words, images, and creative visions helped shape it.

Guests experienced readings from featured poets, heard photographers share the stories behind their selected images, and connected with fellow artists, collaborators, and community members. We were also honored to hear from collaborator Gesi Schilling and the O, Miami team, whose work continues to amplify the voices and stories that make South Florida unique.

Literally Everyone’s Invited is a collective reflection of place, identity, and the people who call this region home.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this celebration so memorable.

Photo Credits:

We invite you to step inside a work where identity is never fixed, but constantly shifting, expanding, and reforming.Exp...
06/03/2026

We invite you to step inside a work where identity is never fixed, but constantly shifting, expanding, and reforming.

Experience , RESHAPING IDS, CONNECTING REALITIES: a suite of five immersive installations exploring identity through perception, memory, and technology.

Fingerprints become landscapes. Irises transform into constellations. Faces dissolve into living networks of data.

We're thrilled to have it as part of our permanent collection.

On view now at MAD Arts. Tickets are now available via link in bio.

Final days to experience Super Zone by Phil Evans and SHHH! by Dostopos before it closes on June 14.Blending animation,...
06/01/2026

Final days to experience Super Zone by Phil Evans and SHHH! by Dostopos before it closes on June 14.

Blending animation, digital environments, and layered visual storytelling, Super Zone transformed MAD Arts into a hyper-simulated landscape that feels both playful and unsettling. Building worlds that echo internet culture, gaming aesthetics, and collective memory.

With ¡SHHH!, Dostopos reminds us how overwhelming, poetic, and emotionally charged the constant flow of media can become - turning noise into atmosphere and fragmented visuals into collective memory.

We’re grateful to have shared these expansive works with our community and to have witnessed how audiences moved through, questioned, and interpreted its evolving environments.

On view through June 14 at MAD Arts.

05/27/2026

From May 24–June 7, discover the results of Creative Robotics Through Mark-Making : a public showcase featuring works created during the 4-day intensive workshop led by Madeline Gannon. - .gannon

From foundational experiments to real-time interaction, the workshop explored how machines can move beyond being simple tools to become creative collaborators.

Presented in the Departure Gallery, the showcase brings together, installations and experimental outputs produced during the sessions.

On view during MAD Arts regular hours.

05/25/2026

The question is no longer “What am I looking at?” but rather, “What is happening to me as I experience this?”

Today, artists are not only creating objects, they are constructing environments. Working with light, sound, digital systems, and space, they create conditions that unfold through time and presence. The experience is not secondary to the artwork. It is the artwork.

This reflects a broader evolution in contemporary art: meaning is no longer delivered, but formed through interaction. The viewer is no longer outside the work, observing from a distance. They are inside it, physically, perceptually, emotionally.

MAD Arts operates within this expanded framework. By supporting immersive and technology-driven practices, they move beyond exhibition into something closer to activation, where art is not only seen, but entered, navigated, and felt.

Good food. Good drinks. No rush.A place to land, to linger, to enjoy it properly. Add a drink, good company, and you’re ...
05/22/2026

Good food. Good drinks. No rush.

A place to land, to linger, to enjoy it properly. Add a drink, good company, and you’re exactly where you need to be.

YARD Bodega
📍 481 S Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL
🕒 Thursday & Friday: 3 PM – close
🕒 Saturday & Sunday: 12 PM – close

See you when you get here.

05/19/2026

You don’t need a better plan. You need a different kind of night.

At MAD Arts, date night unfolds through the space.

You step into light that shifts the way you feel, sound that pulls you in, and spaces that make you slow down without trying.

✨ $75 for 2 guests
Includes 2 tickets, 2 entrées, and 2 drinks, the full experience, already set.

🎟️ Tickets available on our website
🌙 Plan your night at MAD Arts

Thank you .siwiec for letting us record this moment.

A different kind of night , one that unfolds naturally.

What exists between concept and completion is often the least visible part of the process.In her latest text, reflec...
05/17/2026

What exists between concept and completion is often the least visible part of the process.

In her latest text, reflects on the role of hybrid, mid-scale institutions that operate between traditional models, yet are essential to how artistic work develops.

Drawing from her work as a cultural strategist and her involvement in shaping MAD Arts' structure, she describes an approach where resources and infrastructure can more directly support artists.

The “middle” -experimental, interdisciplinary, and evolving- often resists clear categorization, and is frequently overlooked.

At MAD Arts, this means supporting artists not only with space, but with the capacity to develop and produce their work.

Read the full text at the link in bio."

05/16/2026

Part of MAD Arts’s permanent collection, Anaisa Franco’s Reshaping IDs, Connecting Realities enters the collection as a suite of five installations.

The work approaches identity as a condition in constant flux, unstable, recursive, and shaped through its entanglement with systems of perception and technology. Fingerprints unfold into shifting topographies, irises extend into expansive constellations, and the face dissolves into distributed memory.

Rather than fixing identity as form, the work holds it in a state of transformation, where embodiment, data, and perception continuously reconfigure one another.

On view starting in June
Tickets available via link in bio.

We’re unofficially kicking off summer with an updated menu! May 21-24, come by YARD Bodega for the launch of our delicio...
05/15/2026

We’re unofficially kicking off summer with an updated menu! May 21-24, come by YARD Bodega for the launch of our delicious new specials and lemonade stand. Beat the heat with refreshing new beverages, available all summer long.

BONUS: Follow us on social media, share a photo, and tag us for 50% off your first lemonade.

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481 S Federal Highway
Dania Beach, FL
33004

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 8pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 10pm
Saturday 10am - 10pm
Sunday 10am - 8pm

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+17542390707

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