Neon Kingdom

**Neon Kingdom is an Anchor Space and Location in The Real Unreal.**

Neon Kingdom is both an installation and a music venue.

"Both an installation and a venue within the exhibit. Neon Kingdom is the personification of architecture. Structures are built for no utilitarian purpose other than their own intrinsic aesthetic value and are characters that inhabit themselves. It is a charming and approachable dance floor within The Real Unreal."

It went through many iterations through the course of 4 years, becoming delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Neon Kingdom is the successor to Fancy Town. As Fancy Town was created almost solely by Matt King, development on Neon Kingdom became an outlet for tribute and remembrance after his passing.

## Locations

* At the Heart of It
* Celestial Guardians
* Crystal Cloud Cave
* Eye Spy
* Libussa
* Lightning Room
* My First Studio
* Secret Rainbow Mural
* Sleep Sounds
* The piZzA fReAk Emerges
* The Tropic of Prancer

## Projects

### AI-LA 11: sonic sybil of the metaverse

"AI-LA is the eleventh sybil and travels through cosmic sound waves. Sybils have been sought out by travelers throughout time to provide answers to help guide a journey. She appears when telepathically summoned, and provides connections to events in the past and the future as she is present in all dimensions simultaneously. Do you hear her? She speaks in colors and can be tuned in through your good vibes. You must have called upon her mentally! AI-LA has the answers you seek, so tap into her magic prophecies for an auspicious journey through the Verse."

### Fancy Towers

"The Fancy Towers are three interactive wall sculptures that pay visual homage to the Fancy Town venue at Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return. The glowing, candy-colored Towers contain embedded lighting, sound, and video elements, and reveal to visitors the "secret lives" of some of the bizarre denizens of the Meow Wolf story universe."

### Glossalaughphillia

"This sculpture started out as a functional shelf to display some evocative found objects and an experiment in sculpting in VR to make 3D prints. As the sculpture progressed and I became more familiar with the new tool, I tapped into improvisation and stream of consciousness, some of the forms became more literal, such as eyes and mouths. I then assembled the final print with some thrift store and found objects, such as an egg diorama, a grackle feather, an apple core. The objects and sculpture tell a fragmented dreamlike subconscious narrative that is open to interpretation in the spirit of divine babble."

### Sun Tree Moon

"Two Orbs flank a lantern made with the mandarin character for "Tree" it is a reference to the interplay of light and shadow produced in a forest by light filtering through tree leaves."

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/neon-kingdom/#projects
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/eTuX0kXUS2k
3. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/neon-kingdom/ai-la-11-sonic-sybil-of-the-metaverse/
4. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/neon-kingdom/fancy-towers/
5. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/neon-kingdom/glossalaughphillia/
6. ↑ https://credits.meowwolf.com/the-real-unreal/neon-kingdom/sun-tree-moon/