FEATURED ART INSTALLATION: 360Kiss-CAM

Suza Hepkat’s 360Kiss-Cam paintings were done based on an earlier interactive art experience developed in collaboration with the artists DRC3PO & Context last year. They glow in blacklight.

These paintings are being shown the first time at Technosexual April 2026, which only seems fair since they are based on screenshots from the audience interactive version of 360 Kiss Cam done at 3 of Cane’s Technosexual in February 2025. If you went to that event and consented to step behind into the kissing booth behind the projection screen and chose to be recorded and projected making out with your chosen person(s), there is a strong likelihood you may be in one of the paintings shown at the next Technosexual event. There was a disclaimer in the booth that let everyone know that by voluntarily participating last year in that art project that you were being recorded and could become part of the future now current paintings. Each press of the giant red record button was meant to convey complied consent. We’re not taking it down, its too late we’ve now evolved into objects of art with colorful vibrant moments of queer joy, glimpses at binary/nonbinary affection, heated passion, complex moments, bit lips, stolen breaths, and sparks of loving warmth… all transmutated into neon color to match the intensity of these captured kisses on canvases, as well as a few sprinkled digital frames of moving visual moments.

Yes you can collect these canvases, both the traditional painted kind as well as the digital frames that contain a micro-SD chip of a single moment on loop, featuring glitched and colorful kisses to brighten up your life. Suza will also have copies of her book & some shibari paintings available.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

[1] Suza Hepkat is a queer, conceptual artist who works in mixed media, blacklight reactive acrylic paint, and interactive performance art. They have exhibited in Dallas Texas at Mighty Fine Arts, Plush Gallery, Kettle Gallery, and elsewhere at Austin Museum of Art at the Jones Center, Art Chicago, AAFNYC, Scope Miami, Lawndale Art Center Houston, and Aurora Dallas. Suza also creates art in ceramic facejugs, poetry, and shibari rigging. Her tiny poetry and art book “100 Haikus about Horror Movies” was released in 2024.

[2] Drc3p0 is a new media artist specializing in interactive installations and experimental circuitry. They design innovative machines that merge sensory experiences and invoke new ways of interaction with our surroundings. Previously creating for Disturbathon, Hellraiser, and other unmentionables.

[3] Context is a DFW artist primarily working in analog and digital video. Drawing inspiration from the works of Legacy Russell and Donna Haraway, whose work frequently reinterprets found or live-captured footage through various distortions to create art glitched from its original presentation. Their work is thematically characterized by this glitch distortion, which explores the reading and writing of experience into memory and cultural communication.

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SUZA’s ARTIST STATEMENT

Affection transmutates into art through two iterations in the series, “Queer Kisses.” In version 1.0 Polaroids & UV paint. Version 2.0 offered our coded video synthesizer setup which displayed irl kisses as glitched video installation then, which later became painted mixed media artwork of the future that now exists today – the product of intermingling exhibition & voyeurism through the lens of consent and interactivity.

The “Queer Kisses” series highlights intimate connections that remind us “love is love.” The series of paintings feature couples sweetly entangled & was much inspired by Andy Warhol’s short film “Kiss,” but newly focused on LGBTQ couples in efforts to boost representation of the universality of love seen in public spaces. Museums and galleries show hetero/monogamous kisses with abandon, yet shy away from showing queer kisses. The 360Kiss-Cam was a 2 year project that set out to change that paradigm by exhibiting and normalizing the kisses of queer and/or kink participants.

This series is exhibited by this LGBTQ artist to show many moments, often queer joy & release in 2 painted formats. Polaroid transfers on canvas -or- Glitched video screenshots on canvas, Both improved with UV Reactive Acrylic that glows in blacklight. Titles include the subjects’ pronouns,

Suza Kanon’s Queer Kisses series began in 2024. In January Suza asked for queer couples to consent to be photographed by polaroid. In May 2024, Kanon exhibited the altered polaroids now blown up onto 2’x2’ canvases with uv reactive paint for their solo exhibit at Mighty Fine Arts Gallery. In February 2025 they collaborated with artists Darcy Neal and Alex Context on an audience interactive performance art installation, the 360KiSS-CaM which was the version 2.0 moving picture concept of their queer kisses series built on the creative momentum from the year before. We invited participants to share kisses, be recorded, and become art. 360KiSS-CaM was an interactive art installation at the Three of Canes Technosexual with a cozy corner to sit & kiss someone who consented to be recorded on camera for future art, plus it was projected and displayed in real time at the event.

360KiSS-CaM last year was an interactive new media collaboration that allowed guests to consent to be recorded, coded, and glitched into video artwork displayed in both present and in the future; blurring the lines between deliberate affection, exhibition, and voyeurism. 360KiSS-CaM created interactive sensory engagement opportunities in a site specific video installation that over time (a year to be exact) birth a new iteration of visual art in the paintings.

The collaborative art of the 360KiSS-CaM combined the talents and resources of the 3 artists: Darcy Neal, Hepkat, and Context created a singular creative opportunity for the event’s guests to indulge in that night. That collaboration planted the creative seeds that became the Version 2.0 queer kisses paintings on 8” x 8” canvases by Suza based on transferred prints from screenshots from the 360KISS-CAM recordings shared here with blacklight-reactive neon acrylic paint. For this exhibit she will also exhibit a few digital frames that show looped kisses that move in the frame as well as move forward the value of queer representation in the art chosen for exhibit in our society & scene.

…you were invited…

…pressed record…

…kiss & share…

…transferred & painted…

…visual affection sequence initiated…

…art takes a life of its own…

…beep, bloop…

…art continues transmission…