“Immersive Surfaces” is a publicly presented video projection installation onto the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn during the Dumbo Arts Festival from September 23 - 25, 2011. The multi- part video projection, created by over 20 international artists and curators, will cover over 30,000 sq. feet of the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Archway and the surrounding cityscape, through the use of cutting-edge video mapping technology.

September 23^rd-25^th, 2011
8.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.

As part of
The DUMBO Arts Festival

The Exhibition

Immersive Surfaces explores ideas of “crowd art,” and the meaning of surface as a media platform in a specific cityscape. Presented in three phases, Immersive Surfaces presents 18 works in a more traditional video art format, on a projected, Op-Art background, which animates itself in the second part of the program before leading into the climactic third section of the show:

“As Above – So Below,” is the featured piece which the image above is taken from. It consists of a video mapped projection installation, conceived and created by a group of six artists, Simon Anaya, Farkas Fulop, Richard…
Featured Artists

Over 20 artists from around the globe are participating in “Immersive Surfaces!” Click here to get information on the Featured Artists participating in “Immersive Surfaces.” A complete Artists list with links is included below.
Participate

Immersive Surfaces will be accompanied by a mobile augmented reality component created by Elysium Media. A QR code, posted here, around the show site, and in the guides, with instructions to download the Layar app to viewers’ smartphones. Throughout the festival you can tweet images and comments with the hashtag: #dumboarts. Tweeted images will float through the atmosphere and around the installation, as self-referential surfaces of their own.