About MindShark
MindShark is a Burning Man camp unlike any other.
2023 – Esplanade Baby!
2023 was a great year for MindShark! After 8 years of being a neighborhood bar, MindShark stepped up to the challenge of being an Esplanade camp… and crushed it! Our bar was open and fire certified on Saturday to open the burn, and the jets of flames from the MindShark sign summoned tired burners to what we heard called “The unofficial pre-party of the burn”.
Night and Day, CHUMS (the MindShark Bar), served thousands of cocktails and The Coldest Beer on the Playa™. Visitors to the camp were able to use interactive wands to paint the LED dome and control its animations. Guests could also trigger each poofer from the MindShark archway sign themselves to the rhythm of the music. To top it all off, we hosted multiple parties a day with all day music and more live performers than any previous year!
Projects
2024 Event Schedule
Coming Soon!
History Of MindShark
Pilot Season
The founders Kevin (Mind) a neuroscientist, and Tushar (Shark) a shark, start a camp because… how hard could it be?
Synaptic Aquarium
Synaptic Aquarium is MindShark’s first large scale art project
MindShark becomes a Bar
MindShark begin serving the Coldest Beer on the Playa™
LED Dome Introduced
Flaming Archway (AKA the Sign)
MindShark gets more Interactive
Wearable headsets allow burners to paint the LED dome with animations based on their flow
Esplanade!
MindShark brings the party to 8 & Esplanade with the Coldest Beer on the Playa™, Craft Cocktails, Interactive LED Dome, visitor controlled fire poofers on The Sign, and many many DJs.
Gallery
The Extremely Essential MindShark
Nothing MindShark builds or does happen without participation, so here’s
what you need to know, if you’re interested in camping with MindShark.
YOU do!
- Pay dues – our camp is internally funded and requires everybody to contribute
- Do chores – everything we do we do ourselves and this is what the hell we do
- Teardown – over the course of the last two days (Saturday and Sunday) we have to put everything back into a box.
- Nobody may leave before 4 PM on Sunday 9/1
- Build shit– every camp member must sign up to help on one of our projects, which will generally require some amount of building and/or planning pre-burn, as well as on-playa work to assemble and/or operate
- Be and part of the Team – MindShark doesn’t work unless everyone takes initiative and participates.
- Not suck – this is harder than it seems, but really don’t be a piece of shit.
WE Do!
- Food – two squares a day is all you need
- Water – might even be cold. We provide water for DRINKING (e.g., not for showering)
- Booze – ‘all you can drink’, the ‘coldest beer on the playa’
- Shower – We’ve got a shower tent, but you have to bring your own water
- Power – don’t expect to have your own personal outlet, but our camp has electricity.
- Shade for Tents – Shade for your tents, and space for your whatever that doesn’t require shade (e.g., personal yurt).
- Art – dope fucking flame effects and LEDs and projections and god knows what now
- Events – we do things!
We Do NOT!
- Allow RVs in the Camp
- Provide
- Your personal sleeping stuff – you’ll need to actually bring something to sleep on/in. Or maybe not?
- Transportation to/from the playa – we can’t/won’t coordinate this, so take care of it.
- Eating/Drinking Vessels – you will need your own bowl/plate/cup/feedbag etc.
- Bikes – If you bring one make sure you have a plan for getting it off playa. Do not leave it in the camp.
- Other water things – camp water is for cooking and drinking. If you want to do something else (like showering), bring your own.