COLLABORATORS
MUSICIANS
CLOZEE
Clozee and Actualize first worked together in 2023 when her team reached out to commission custom immersive projection content for her 3-day event - Voyage - which was held at the Caverns in Tennessse. Being a large project, Actualize took the role of Art Director and brought on Glass Crane and Arkitekt to aid in the content creation - leading to the creation of CONFLUX. In 2024 CONFLUX was brought back again to create content for Clozee's latest tour, Microworlds.
LSDREAM
LSDream and Actualize first worked together in 2023 when LSDream reached out for some new visuals for his tour. Actualize curated and presented examples from several of his collaborators, and LSDream selected some content from Glass Crane and Type-N to take on tour with him. At the end of the year, LSDream reached back out to commission custom immersive projection content for his headline show at the Caverns. For this project, Actualize took the role of Art Director again and brought on Arkitekt and Glass Crane to aid in the content creation, as well as creating some content himself.
OF THE TREES
Of the Trees and Actualize first met and became friends in 2022 when Of the Trees reached out to Actualize to help aid with some final touches on the A/V set he had created for his Memory Palace tour. In 2023, Of the Trees brought Actualize out to the Caverns to run live visuals for his headlining show there, and then brought him on for select dates throughout the rest of the year including headline sets at The Untz, Direct Support for Rezz @ The Brooklyn Mirage, Direct Support for Ganja White Night @ Wobble Colliseum, and his sets at Secret Dreams.
MERSIV
Mersiv reached out to Actualize when releasing his "Pretty, Dark, Loud" Album to create some animated album art visualizers for YouTube. You can check these out up on Mersiv's YouTube Channel.
DAILY BREAD
Daily Bread and Actualize first worked together at Electric Forest in 2023 where Actualize ran visuals for Daily Bread's set on Sherwood Court. They reunited later in the year in Alaska for Sacred Acre where Actualize ran visuals for both Daily Bread's headlining set as well as for his side project Cloud Conductor.
EAZYBAKED
Eazybaked and Actualize first worked together in 2022 when Eazybaked brought Actualize on to run live visuals for their set at Rezz Rocks. In 2023, they brought him back again for their next set at Red Rocks which was direct support for Ganja White Night at Wobble Rocks. For this set they commissioned custom content from Actualize and planned out the set down to the minute with custom visuals including synced lyric videos, themed content, and more. They also brought Actualize out to Electric Forest with them in 2023 where he ran their packed-out set at the Ranch Arena stage.
TRUTH
Truth and Actualize first work together was their fated set at Red Rocks in 2021 where Actualize and Glass Crane were going back to back on visuals and the venue lost power, resulting in the set unforunately being cut. Actualize and Glass Crane got their redemption set with Truth at The Northware House for the DDD Takeover in 2022, and then again later in the year at MeowWolf (where they brought in their friend Arkitekt as well for a CONFLUX collaborative set).
In 2023, Actualize ran live visuals for their sets at Electric Forest, Mission Ballroom (direct support Zeds Dead), and Wobble Colliseum where they went b2b with the Widdler.
Manic Focus and Actualize first worked together for his Red Rocks set in 2023 where they played direct support for Boogie T. For this set, Manic Focus commissioned custom cartoon animation content from Actualize who art directed the project and brought on Jonna P to aid in the content creation. Actualize ran the set live and planned it out fully with content prepared for every moment. They worked together again in Alaska at Sacred Acre towards the end of 2023 where Actualize was a special guest at the event.
LAB GROUP
Lab Group and Actualize first set together was at Soundhaven 2023 where ran live visuals for their set there. They ended up bringing him back for their Red Rocks performance later in the year, where they played direct support for Rezz.
RAVENSCOON
Ravenscoon and Actualize first met and played together at Soundhaven in 2021 on the first edition of the legendary UFO stage. After this Ravenscoon brought out Actualize for his direct support slot to Champagne Drip at the Ogden in March of 2022, and also had him make a visual mix for the release of his INERTIA EP that was released on YouTube.
KLL SMTH
kLL smTH and Actualize's most notorious set together was at Red Rocks in 2023 as support for Of the Trees where they worked together to plan the set out to a T, but they have been friends and working together since 2021. The first set they played together was shortly after Actualize moved to Denver which was an Ultrasloth set at the Black Box where Actualize went b2b with Glass Crane. Since then, Actualize has played several Ultrasloth, kLL smTH, and chLL smTH sets in Denver and around the country - both with and without Glass Crane.
A HUNDRED DRUMS
One of Actualize's best friends, longest standing clients, and biggest supporters, A Hundred Drums and Actualize have been working together since they met online at the end of COVID via a stream called CouchFest, which was their first time performing together. Since then, they have performed countless sets together in Denver and around the country at iconic venues like Red Rocks, The Caverns, and more. Actualize works with Infinite Konceptz, the artist behind all of A Hundred Drums custom artwork, to create custom visual content for the AHD project. When A Hundred Drums and Actualize play together using content featuring the art of Infinite Konceptz, it is called the "A Hundred Drums Experience".
Their most recent show together was their first headline at the Ogden Theatre where Actualize was asked to design the stage and put together custom content for the show, including a custom branded live NOTCH camera scene (which he debuted for the first time at this show).
MADDY O NEAL
Maddy O'Neal and Actualize first met in Denver at Cervantes for a Late Night Radio show where they clicked and became fast friends. Their first set together was at Secret Dreams in 2023 where Actualize ran live visuals for her set on the Portal Stage. Later in the year, they performed together again in Alaska at Sacred Acre - and in December of 2023 Maddy brought Actualize out to run visuals for her first headlining set at the Ogden. For that show they worked together in advance to plan out certain moments of the set including some sync'd up music videos and custom content. Maddy and her team were very happy with the performance and they plan to work with Actualize more in 2024!
ESSEKS
Esseks and Actualize first worked together in 2022 for Esseks first headlining set at Cervantes. When Actualize works with Esseks, all the content that is being played is original artwork and animation by Esseks himself, and Actualize is just in charge of the mixing. He works closely with Sam (Esseks) to ensure that he is doing justice to his animations and presented them in the way he wants them to be viewed. Since this show, Esseks brought Actualize out for his next Cervantes headline in early 2023, his Red Rocks set supporting Rezz late 2023, and collaborated on an A/V Experience with him for his 2024 Cervantes headline.
VCTRE
VCTRE and Actualize first worked together way back in 2019 at a Detox Unit headline in Boston where Actualize was running visuals for the whole show - and then they reconnected in 2021 when Actualize ran visuals for Integrate (VCTRE's collaborative project with Black Carl) at The Untz. Since then, they have worked together various times, including Integrate's 2023 Red Rocks set, VCTRE's Mission Ballroom set as support for Eprom, and more.
BLACK CARL
Black Carl and Actualize worked together for the first time at the Untz in 2021 for his Integrate set (his collaborative projet with VCTRE). Since then, they have worked together various times including the North Warehouse in 2022, support for Griz's Another World event (b2b with Glass Crane, Electric Forest 2023, and more.
CHMURA
Chmura and Actualize first played together and became friends in New England before either of them moved to Denver, so once they both arrived there and starting finding success performing their respective art forms it only made sense to start working together. Since then they have worked closely together - with Actualize curating content specific to the Chmura vibe and bringing on other artists like Arkitekt to create custom clips. In 2023 they performed together at Soundhaven, Sonic Bloom, and The Ogden (direct support to Maddy O'Neal).
DRRTYWULVZ
DRRTYWULVZ and Actualize first set together was at Infrasound in 2022, since then they have become close friends and collaborators. In 2023 DRRTYWULVZ brought Actualize on for his first Cervante's Ballroom Headline, and they built a custom set using elements that they picked out together to match the DRRTYWULVZ theme. Actualize has also done visuals for a few BoggDogg sets (DRRTYWULVZ side project with Bogtrotter) including their debut set at the North Warehouse in 2022, and their set at Astronox in 2023 (b2b with Glass Crane).
MINDEX
Mindex and Actualize first met in Boston when Slava played a small event series called Fusion Fridays where Actualize was the resident visual artist back in 2019. They reunited later for various stream sets during quarantine, and festival sets once we returned. In 2022, Mindex had Actualize animate the album artwork he himself had created for his new EP release - Trapped. In 2023, Mindex brought Actualize out for his first headlining show at the Black Box.
ATYYA
ATYYA and Actualize started working together at the very end of 2023 / beginning of 2024 when Atyya reached out for some custom visual content that he could bring on tour with his new album release "The Indivisible". Actualize Art Directed this project and brought on Glass Crane to help him create the content with him. Actualize was able to perform some of this new content with Atyya live as direct support for A Hundred Drums at her Ogden Headline in Janurary of 2024.
FLY
FLY and Actualize met at Of the Trees Caverns show in 2023 and quickly became good friends. They played their first set together that same year at Sonic Bloom, and then later in the year FLY brought Actualize out to projection map and run visuals for his Cervantes co-headline with Sumthin Sumthin.
MYSTIC GRIZZLY
Mystic Grizzly and Actualize first met and played together in 2018 in Manchester, NH back at a small venue called Jewel Nightclub. They quickly became friends and Mystic Grizzly had Actualize work on several projects for him over the years, including the album artwork for his release Jaguar Medicine - which was a collaborative piece with Glass Crane. They played a few streams together during quarantine in 2020, one of which is uploaded on YouTube. Mystic Grizzly also brought Actualize out in 2021 to run visuals and projection mapping for him at the Mishawaka, and again in 2022 for his set at the Caverns supporting Mersiv.
EQUANIMOUS
Equanimous and Actualize met at played together for the first time at the Black Box in the beginning of 2023. Equanimous loved the visuals and commissioned Actualize for a recorded set that he could bring on tour and play as the backdrop for his sets.
RUBY CHASE
Ruby Chase and Actualize first met at Envision in the beginning of 2023, and after seeing his work there later in the year she commissioned a custom themed recorded visual set which she brought around with her throughout the rest of the year.
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VISUAL ARTISTS
ANDROID JONES
Android Jones and Actualize first met in 2021 through their mutual friend and collaborator Glass Crane right after Actualize moved to Denver . Through this connection, Actualize has become one of the few VJs given who has been given Android's work to use in his sets. In 2023, Actualize was invited to play at Shpongledroid as part of Actual Crane (his collaborative project with Glass Crane), and ended up staying on with Android and Glass Crane for the Shpongle set and running some of his custom effect stacks on top of Android's new animations. Android Jones and Actualize were also scheduled to play a b2b at Sonic Bloom 2022 for Desert Dwellers, but unfortunately the weather had other plans.
GLASS CRANE
Glass Crane and Actualize first met a weekend retreat at COSM in 2019 where they were both taking a digital sculpting workshop from Ben Ridgeway, but their friendship really took off at ReVibe in 2020 - a socially distanced festival where Actualize was curating the visual lineup and booked Glass Crane as one of his headlining visual acts. Since then they have been close friends and worked together frequently over the years, playing many collaborative sets together as well as attacking several custom conten projects and just recently officially forming the collaborative project - Actual Crane. They also created a content studio together called CONFLUX with Arkitekt where they will all collaboratively work on different content projects together.
JAKE AMASON
Jake Amason and Actualize met in 2021 right after Actualize moved to Denver. Actualize was a long time fan of Jake's artwork and they became fast friends, spending lots of time in the studio together working on their separate projects. Their first official collaborative piece together, titled Echo, was released as a one of one canvas print for a Threyda gallery show - Electronexus - and was purchased on opening night. Jake and Actualize constantly dream up ideas of collaborative installations - and you will likely start seeing more of them in 2024!
ARKITEKT
Arkitekt and Actualize first met at Infrasound in 2022, and since then have become close friends and collaborators. Together with Glass Crane, they formed CONFLUX in the later half of 2023 - a content studio where they all work collaboratively through which over the years they have produced work for CloZee, LSDream, Truth, and more.
JONNA PETROU
Jonna and Actualize first met online during the pandemic through various streams that they both played. Actualize was a huge fan of Jonna's work, recognizing a unique style that not many other digital artists and content creators in the scene are able to do. In 2023, Actualize brought Jonna in on a content project for Manic Focus where Actualize served as the Art Director dreaming up the content with Manic Focus, and Jonna executed it perfectly. The content helped make the visual set extremely unique and continue to make Manic Focus sets stand out to this day.
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EVENTS
ELECTRIC FOREST
In 2022, Actualize served on the team providing all the projection mapping in Sherwood Forest. He had the privledge of mapping out and designing projection content for a 9 ft tall wizard sculpture, a massive wooden piece by Carrie Thompson serving as the entryway to the forest, and the Sherwood Forest owl - all iconic installations. In 2023, he returned - but this time to run live visuals for Eazybaked, Daily Bread, Truth, and Black Carl.
ENVISION
In 2023, Actualize had the honor of working with Zebbler Studios to help map and run live visuals on the Sol Stage which featured a massive 100ft wide, 40ft tall projection stage. He ran live visuals on this setup for Sonambulo, Rocky Dawuni, and Porangui.
SOUNDHAVEN
In 2021, Actualize started working with Soundhaven Festival as their Visual Director in charge of curating and booking the VJ lineup, determining the set pairings for each accepted VJ, and managing the VJs all weekend - as well as performing some sets of his own. He returned to fill the same role in both 2022 and 2023, and will return to do the same in 2024!
SYNTHESIS MUSIC PRODUCTION RETREAT
In 2023, Actualize was one of three visual instructors at Synthesis Music Retreat alongside Glass Crane and Clearvoid. He taught classes on projection mapping, and he and Clearvoid worked with students to build a custom stage design and show them how to map it out using a few different methods. They hope to grow this side of the program with the Synthesis team in the coming years - or launch their own visual retreat at the same grounds.
SACRE ACRE
In 2023, Actualize traveled to Alaska to perform at a music festival called Sacred Acre. He also worked with Glass Crane on all the artwork and custom animations for the festival. At the event he played with Maddy O'Neal, Manic Focus, and Daily Bread. He plans to return in future years to continue to share his work with the people of Alaska!
SECRET DREAMS
In 2023, Actualize was invited to Secret Dreams to projection map the Teahouse, one of the main installations at the event. They also had him run visual sets for Maddy O'Neal and Of the Trees while he was there. He plans to return in future years to grow and improve upon the installation and perform more sets!
INFRASOUND
In 2021, Actualize performed at his first Infrasound - a smaller version of the event with only one stage called the Infrasound Family Reunion. At this same event he also played his first set with Of the Trees (before they had met). He was brought back again 2022 and 2023 for the spring editions, performing with acts like DRRTYWULVZ, Craze, Bogtrotter, and more. In 2022 for the Equinox / Fall Edition of the event, he was brought out to projection map a few murals by the Apex Collective which were placed on-stage.
THE UNTZ
In 2021, Actualize played his first Untz festival where he performed alongside Truth, Integrate, and more. In 2023 he returned, traveling with Of the Trees and BLAAP (Of the Trees x Freddy Todd), the headliners that year, to perform alongside their sets.
FIRELIGHTS
In 2022, Actualize designed a projection mapped stage facade for Firelights Festival. Themed for the event, the design consists of flames shapes which when lit up by a projector and mapped properly with the custom content that Actualize created for the stage come to life. In 2023, the stage returned to Firelights, but Actualize had to be at Sacred Acre in Alaska so he hired Smudge to set up and run the mapping on the stage for him.
ASTRONOX
In 2021, Actualize attended his first Astronox with Jake Amason and Stephen Kruse of Apex Collective to watch them live paint a school bus at the event. He ended up mapping out the bus for fun, and was brought back officially by the event the next year to lead the projection mapping team for the stage. He created custom content for the stage using After Effects, MadMapper, and Resolume to display, as well as building it in such a way that guest VJs could easily plug in and display their content through the mapping. The mapping was a huge success and Actualize was brought back again in 2023 as the headlining VJ and projection mapping lead.
EQUINOX 2018 + 2019
Equinox was the first festival where Actualize served as the Art Director and Visual Director. In 2018 and 2019 he was in charge of booking and managing the gallery (which included about 30 artists each year), murals, art installations, and visuals - as well as curating VJ pairings. Unfortunately this festival eventually went downhill due to poor management, but it was a formative experience for Actualize in his early years to have the opportunity to help lift up other artists, a mission he continues today with other events like Soundhaven.
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