Machine Dazzle reaches across borders and boundaries to mix media, subvert preconceptions, and create masterpieces of fashion and spectacle. The result, to quote the exhibition's curatorial statement, "is an explosive 'queer maximalism' aesthetic that joyfully counters the prejudices of high culture regarding extravagance and the overly decorated and embraces these associations as queer for affirming hybridity over purity, rejecting cultural hierarchies, and valuing different kinds of bodies."  

The exhibition included a significant portion of the costumes worn by artist Taylor Mac in Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2016). Inspired by the sights and sensations of the exhibition, the students created their own prototypes for comparable living sculptures and costumes upon returning to school.