Virtual Pavilions – Screensaver Anno 2011

Members of the artist collective Manifest.AR bring their augmented reality projects – fresh from the Venice Biennale 2011 – to the Dumbo waterfront. Download the Layar APP, search Dumbo and view the various points of interest.

Unfortunately, there will be no AR artwork of Sander Veenhof in the skies above Brooklyn during this show. Fortunately, there’s now an Augmented Reality screensaver to fill up the empty space.

All Virtual Pavilions Projects:
John Cleater, ‘Sky Pavilions’
Tamiko Thiel, ‘Shades of Absence: Public Voids’
Mark Skwarek & Alan Sondheim, ‘The Island’
John Craig Freeman, ‘Water wARs’
Lily & Honglei, ‘The Crystal Coffin’
Will Pappenheimer, ‘Revolving Bridges’
Sander Veenhof, ‘Screensaver Anno 2011?

Motion Pictures

In ‘Motion Pictures’ the walls of Melville House gallery come alive with the vibrancy of New York pedestrian life as artist Susan Mastrangelo’s compositions enact the proscenium of the street. Her fiberglass and fabric figures walk, rush, and pivot about the room stepping over and around text provided by poet Albert Mobilio.

Siddhartha Tawadey

Bose Pacia will exhibit new video and photography by New Dehli-based artist, Sigghartha Tawadey.

Final Showdown

An exhibition of site specific work by various champions of the street.

How to Paint a Picture

Cave Canem invites the public to a viewing, performance and reception for ‘How to Paint a Picture,’ an exhibition by poet and artist JoAnne McFarland. Oil paintings, video installations, and collaborative poetic work by E.J. Antonio, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Robin Coste Lewis and Kamilah Aisha Moon are featured.

LIVINGarrangements

The term LIVINGarrangements opens discussion to political innuendo, cultural differences, social issues, and importantly, design and style. A second chapter in an ongoing series of interdisciplinary exhibitions showcasing professional as well as up and coming talent in photography, design, architecture and art, LIVINGarrangements is meant as an open platform to submit images and build a visual profile of ideas in living.

The ReBar Walkway Exhibition

75 feet of featured wall space representing local and visiting emerging artists, presented by ReBar, Craig Anthony Miller, and The DIS Micro Gallery.

Shades of Brooklyn

An exhibition of art, typography & mixed media of Brooklynites such as Rita Hayworth, George Gershwin, Woody Allen, Mae West, Jay-Z, The Incredible Hulk and many others who were born, raised, or spent a good portion of their lives in this inspiring borough.

Blue Monster

Inside a frame of blue monster fur, a hypnotic spiral design made of thousands of googly eyes rotates at a barely noticeable speed. A spectacle of peripheral perception unfolds as each eye occasionally shifts.