LED Art by Christopher Schardt

07/11/2026

I recently received a generous grant from Five Ton Crane to support Hahalua. Five tons of thanks! These funds are key to paying for finishing the piece and transporting it to/from Burning Man 2026!

If you are interested in helping with this piece as well, please consider supporting it here:

Hahalua is a 24' wide sculpture of a manta ray with 25,000 LEDs. It 18' high from a tower that includes a wide porch swing. When visitors swing, it causes the wings to flap in the beautiful, articulated way of a real manta ray. ("Hahalua" ...

11/02/2025

If you are in the Bay Area, consider coming to this event on Friday. I will have two pieces of art there and the line up of music, along with the immersive lights seem amazing!

And if you come, find us and say hello!

09/14/2025

Terri and I co created a new piece of art for Burning Man this year. It's called Tipping Point because we believe that the world is at a tipping point between tyranny and democracy. Which will win?

06/30/2025

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLh78_mNivh/?igsh=d284YnAwazFkbDA4

05/24/2025

Many of you know of Daybreaker. It's a daytime, drug and alcohol free dance event that happens every couple of months in San Francisco, well...
Next Friday, May 30 there will be an evening Daybreaker at Broadway Studios, 7:00-10:30PM. And it will feature 5 of my art pieces!
http://ledlabs.co/paraluna
http://ledlabs.co/tungsten
http://ledlabs.co/mesmer
http://ledlabs.co/wishingwheel
http://ledlabs.co/stella
Hope to see you there!
https://www.daybreaker.com/event/san-francisco-05-30/

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05/20/2025

To the UnScruz community (and all Burning Man regional and/or Big Burn attendees:

I recently took Mani Padmi (a giant Tibetan Prayer Wheel) to unSCruz. The piece was beautifully placed, looked and sounded splendid and seemed to be drawing a lovely group of participants.

Early Saturday morning soneone tried to climb this most delicate piece - not once, but repeatedly. Mani Padme was damaged to a point that it was unsafe to operate.

I was devastated. This is a very special piece to me and it will take much time, effort and money to rebuild.

I want to make it clear what it means to me, and many other artists when this happens. It is gut wrenching!

unSCruz has an art vandalism/misuse/climbing policy - that if you are caught doing this there will be no warnings or second changes. You’ll be kicked out of the event immediately and banned from future events.

I hope the person(s) who did this will either make restitution or suffer the consequences.

04/13/2025

This is Bloom. Bloom is made up of four of these large LED light flowers. It debutes on April 25th at an event, called Bloom (!!) at the San Diego Museum

03/16/2025

Since then, it has been a time of resting and regrouping, building new art, fixing minor details in the art displayed below and getting ready for crazy new adventures in art.

I apologize for not posting sooner; we have literally been on the move for months!

03/16/2025

Also, the tiki bar. It was such a cool spot! I think a new team goal should be to find a tiki bar wherever out travels take us

03/16/2025

Did I mention manatees? They whole crew had the amazing opportunity to swim with manatees with an entity that is licensed to lead such asventures. We learned so much about manatees and the way to interact with them properly. It was incredibke to see manatees mere inches away as they came up for air, swam under us and played with each other. It was definitely a highlight of the trip!