Lumenaura is the inaugural illuminated art experience in Aurora from Oct. 4 to Nov. 1. Its major feature will be the Sonic Runway, co-developed by Oak Park native Warren Trezevant and his friend and lead artist, Rob Jensen, for Burning Man.
Warren began attending Burning Man in 1997 and started building large-scale art in 2001. Since then, he has worked on a variety of installations, including Peter Hudson’s “Charon,” a stroboscopic zoetrope of rowing skeletons, and “Eternal Return,” a stroboscopic zoetrope of acrobatic women, and Marco Cochrane’s “R_Evolution,” where he designed the breathing for this 40-foot sculpture of a standing woman.
The Sonic Runway appeared at Burning Man in 2016 and 2018 and has toured cities around the world, including Chengdu, China; London, England; and a variety of cities in the U.S. and Canada. San Jose, California commissioned a semi-permanent version of the Sonic Runway, which was installed in 2021 in front of the city hall, designed by Richard Meier. The latest iteration of the Sonic Runway was installed for Burning Man 2024.
Warren’s creative path emerged while he attended OPRF High School, graduating in 1987, and later being recognized with the Tradition of Excellence Award in 2010. He graduated with honors from the College of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1993 with an BFA in Industrial Design. He completed his final year of studies at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, where he won a bursary award for one of his designs from the Royal Society of the Arts.
Warren started his professional career as a character animator at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California, animating on nine feature films. He was the creative lead for the stroboscopic 3-D Toy Story Zoetrope, which was part of the “Pixar: 20 Years of Animation” exhibition that premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, before traveling to world class museums around the world. Additional versions of the zoetrope are at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles and Disneyland Paris.
He transitioned into helping build better digital tools for creatives, first at Pixar with Presto, the studio’s proprietary production software, then as a product manager at Autodesk for Maya, the industry-leading animation software, where he oversaw the Animation & Rigging workflows, and later for ShotGrid, where he oversaw Review and Production Tracking workflows.
He recently joined Adobe Firefly, the company’s Generative AI product, to explore ways storytellers can utilize GenAI to facilitate more impactful stories.
Bob Trezevant
Oak Park
