The 18th Annual Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach festival,
underwritten by The Alys Foundation, will be held May 16-17, 2025.
The Scenic 30A community of Alys Beach, located along the
northwest Florida coastline, provides the environment for the Digital Graffiti
festival, the open-air, organic gallery for the projections of these original
artworks. Staged against the elegant white walls of Alys Beach, Digital
Graffiti provides a large-scale blank canvas for artists to explore the visual
intersection of art and architecture. The engagement between the art,
architecture, and audience is transformative, creating an immersive and interactive
art projection experience that is entirely unique to the Digital Graffiti
festival, named as one of the top “24 Unconventional Art Destinations Around
the World” by National Geographic.
Artists, designers, photographers, and architects are
invited to submit their artwork to be projected under the night sky and onto
the pristine, reflective white walls of Alys Beach. This evening festival
features the town, buildings and landscape, illuminated by the latest in
design, animation, and projection technologies; two glowing evenings of
innovation and inspiration, with artists from around the world exhibiting works
of projection mapping, generative art, experimental short films, and animation,
as well as sound, motion, and light-responsive installations.
Digital Graffiti is a juried festival of original works of
digital, projection art. The 2025 awards include Best of Show ($5,000 prize),
Curator’s Choice ($2,000 prize) and three Special Recognition honors (at $1,000
prize each), selected by the festival’s curator, John Colette, and esteemed
panel of judges. The Alys Foundation has donated more than $300,000 in awards
and artist stipends over the past 17 years, all to further digital work in the
public realm.