FIGMENT IN THE NEWS
National/New York: 2013
Crónicas desde NY: Figment Festival, proyecto de arte diferente – Mariana Peña Cater, Excelsior (Mexico), 06/14/2013
Giant “Cloud” Made of Recycled Plastic Bottles Pops Up on Governors Island – Yuka Yoneda, inhabitat New York City, 06/11/2013
Governors Island turns into an art playground for Figment NYC (slide show) – Sarah Theeboom, TimeOut New York, 06/11/2013
The FIGMENT Project: Costume Crazy on Governor’s Island! – Justin Gilbert, Haute Talk, 06/11/2013
FIGMENT NYC: 5 Best Art Installations – Justin Gilbert, Redesign Revolutions, 06/11/2013
AO On-Site: Figment NYC on Governors Island, June 8th-9th, 2013 – C. Stein, Art Observed, 06/10/2013
Social Media at the Helm of Performance on Governors Island – Matthew Farina, Hypoallergic, 06/10/2013
Check out photos from Figment NYC 2013 (slide show) – TimeOut New York, 06/10/2013
Governors Island and Figment NYC – GoMighty, 06/08/2013
Figment Returns To Governors Island This Weekend – Gothamist, 06/07/2013
Figment NYC at Governors Island; ‘Native Games’ – A.C. Lee, New York Times, 06/06/2013
Figment – Curbed.com, June 2013
Head in the cloud project – CNN iReport, 05/12/2013
Head in the Clouds (PDF) – TimeOut NY, 04/25/2013
National/New York: 2012
Figment Minigolf on Governors Island – We Heart New York, 09/25/2012
FIGMENT’s David Koren on Eye on New York – CBS Channel 2, 07/29/2012
The 10 Best Interactive Summer Installations In NYC – Complex Magazine, 07/15/2012
A festival of childhood imagination – BBC Travel, 07/10/2012
Review of the 2012 FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island – Untapped New York, 06/11/2012
Figment Festival Takes Over Governors Island With Oddball Art – NYCUrbed, 06/11/2012
Figment Project – AnneLise, Postbox, New York, 06/07/2012
FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island (video) – ABC7, 06/07/2012
Installations revealed for 2012 FIGMENT Interactive Sculpture Garden on Governors Island – World Architecture News, 05/18/2012
Interactive Sculpture Garden To Give Governors Island Surreal Makeover – Huffington Post, 05/11/2012
Interactive Sculpture Garden To Give Governors Island Surreal Makeover – DNAinfo, 05/11/2012
Statue of Liberty’s Face Gets Planted on Governors Island – Curbed NY, 05/11/2012
See The Statue Of Liberty’s Decapitated Head This Summer! – Gothamist, 05/11/2012
National/New York: 2011
New York Best Art Festival 2011: Figment Festival – The Village Voice, 2011
Figment NYC Brings Interactive Art To Governor’s Island – CBS News Local, 06/11/2011
Governors Island: Public Art, XS-XL – Design Arts Daily, 06/17/2011
The Figment Festival Brings Its Crafty Recycled Art World to Governor’s Island – Inhabitat, 06/15/2011
Above & Beyond: FIGMENT Festival – The New Yorker, 06/13/2011
Imagination comes alive at FIGMENT NYC – Insidenewyork.com, 06/12/2011
an incomplete blink : a damp day for FIGMENT on Governors Island – Chauncey D., Houseofdandridge.com, 06/11/2011
Figment Festival on Governors Island: Creative Fun for the Whole Family – Mommy Poppins, 06/12/2011
Figment NYC Brings Interactive Art To Governor’s Island – CBS News Local, 06/11/2011
Figment’s Participatory Art Comes to Governors Island – The Village Voice Blog, 06/10/2011
Figment Festival Brings Whimsy and Art to Governor’s Island – WNYC, 06/09/2011
Governors Island Becomes Offbeat Art Playground – DNAinfo.com, 06/09/2011
Scaling Sculptures on Governors Island – Architect’s Newspaper Blog, 06/03/2011
FIGMENT NYC Is Back – The Dirt, 06/2/2011
ISLAND BY DESIGN: A figment of your imagination – The Village Voice, 06/01/2011
Photos: Governors Island opening day (features FIGMENT long-term installations) – TimeOut New York, 05/28/2011
Governors Island: how, when and what! – A Child Grows in Brooklyn, 05/24/2011
Governors Island Opens May 27 for 2011 Season – NearSay, 05/23/2011
Beyond Imagination: FIGMENT Unites Local Artists for Community Impact – Huffington Post, 05/22/2011
Your Guide To Governors Island This Summer – Gothamist, 05/11/2011
New Outdoor Spaces – TimeOut New York, 05/09/2011
Volunteers Help Build ‘Burble Bup’ on Governors Island – DNAinfo.com, 05/04/2011
Bittertang’s ‘Burble Bup’ wins City of Dreams competition – World Architecture News, 05/03/2011
‘Burble Bup’: Governors Island’s Secret Hideout – Huffington Post via ArtInfo, 05/02/11
FIGMENT, Encouraging & Enhancing the Creation & Display of Art – Laughing Squid, 04/30/11
First Peek At What Governors Island Will Look Like This Summer – Gothamist, 04/27/11
A Summertime Arts Structure for Governors Island – The New York Times ArtsBeat Blog, 04/26/11
Burble Bup: A Playful Green Pavilion for Governor’s Island Designed by Bittertang – Inhabitat, 04/19/11
Eco-Friendly ‘Burble Bup’ Pavilion Coming to Governors Island – DNAinfo.com, 04/18/2011
Bittertang’s Burble Bup has won the 2011 City of Dreams Pavilion Competition – eVolo, 04/16/11
Bittertang Bringing Pleasure To NYC This Summer – Architizer, 04/11/2011
Fantasy Island – AHALife, 04/02/2011
National/New York: 2010
Mini Golf for NYC Kids – TimeOut New York Kids Magazine, 07/2010 | PDF
Living Pavilion – Architects Newspaper, 07/12/10 | PDF
Participatory Arts Festival Rocks New York for Another Year – AllMedia NY, 06/22/2010 | PDF
Figment Recap: All Aboard the Electric Bubble Bus – Laughing Squid, 06/14/10 | PDF
Your Perfect Sunday – TimeOut New York, 06/13/10 | PDF
Green on the Inside – Metropolis Magazine, 06/11/10 | PDF
Your Weekend Starts Now – NY1.com, 06/10/10 | PDF
Governors Island Guide – TimeOut New York Kids, 05/11/2010 | PDF
Master Plan for Governors Island Unveiled – The Dirt, 04/26/10 | PDF
It’s Alive: Figment Project Picks a Winner in “City of Dreams” Pavilion Competition – greenbuildngsNYC, 04/26/10 | PDF
Figment Festival on Governors Island, and Other News – offManhattan, 04/30/10 | PDF
Living Pavilion for Governors Island – Architizer, 04/26/2010 | PDF
Living Pavilion – Pavilion Competition Winner – Dexigner, 04/19/10 | PDF
Figment Island – The Architects Newspaper Blog, 04/13/10 | PDF
Figment 2010 – NYPOST.com | PDF
National/New York: 2009
Useless Beauty: What is to be done with Governors Island? – New Yorker, 08/31/09 | PDF
The Van Goghs of Putt-Putt – Village Voice, 08/5/09 | PDF
Art Park is a FIGMENT of Future Artistic Talent – e-Oculus, 08/4/09 | PDF
An Afternoon in Ferry Land – New York Magazine, 07/13/09 | PDF
Fantasy Island. Seven Minutes From Downtown – New York Magazine, 07/13/09 | PDF
Jackson’s Trip to the Figment Festival! – SuperForest, 06/29/09 | PDF
Figment Festival 2009: NY shows the intent to recycle – Green Diary, 06/15/09 | PDF
Figment Transforms Governors Island – Gothamist, 06/15/09 | PDF
Ferry Takes Brooklynites to Governors Island for Magic, Art – Brooklyn Eagle, 06/15/09 | PDF
Free Arts Festival: A Figment on an Island – WOR News Talk Radio 710, 06/12/09 | PDF
NYC’s Burning Man? Figment festival starts on Governors Island today – TimeOut New York “Own This City” Blog, 06/12/09
Isle See Ya There – The New York Post, 06/12/09 | JPG
Putting Your Imagination To Work: The Figment Festival – Off Manhattan, 06/12/09 | PDF
FIGMENT NYC 2009 – Daily Dujour, 06/12/09
This weekend: Let out your inner artist at Figment in NYC – Newsweek 06/10/09 | PDF
FIGMENT – Flavorpill, 06/09/09 | PDF
FIGMENT, NYC’s free Burner art festival, is keeping lit the flames of New York’s art world – Examiner, 06/04/09 | PDF
Top seven reasons to go to Governors Island this summer – TimeOut New York “Own This City” Blog, 05/30/2009
Governors Island – TimeOut New York, 05/28/2009
Break Out Your CAD Hat & Design a Mini Golf Course For NYC’s Governors Island – Gizmodo, 03/24/09 | PDF
Figment Returns with Mini Golf Challenge – Gothamist, 03/24/09 | PDF
National/New York: 2008
Free & Easy – Metropolis Mag, 07/1/2008 | PDF
FIGMENT and Imagination – New York Post, 06/28/2008
Spare Times: FIGMENT – The New York Times, 06/27/2008 | PDF
David Koren, FIGMENT – The Gothamist, 06/26/2008 | PDF
Governors Island – TimeOut New York, 05/29/2008
A new arts scene on Governors Island – The Sun, 05/29/2008 | PDF
National/New York: 2007
Ferrying Creative Impulses Across New York Harbor – The New York Times, 07/06/2007 | PDF
Arts festival awakens sleepy Governors Island – Metro, 06/09/2007 | PDF
Boston
Kindness is Contagious at FIGMENT Boston – WGBHArts, 07/18/2012
FIGMENT NYC Weekend 2012 – DEXIGNER, 05/25/2012
Organizers prepare for FIGMENT festival on Greenway – Boston.com, 05/10/2012
‘FIGMENT’ comes alive downtown – Boston.com, 06/10/2011
Miniature Travel Guide to the Republic of Art Awesomeness in MA (This Weekend Edition) – ArtSake/Massachusetts Cultural Council l, 06/03/2011
Figment Boston 2011 – The Boston Phoenix, 06/1/2011
FIGMENT Boston at the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway – Stuff Magazine, 05/29/2011
Imagination Running Wild – Improper Bostonian, 05/25/11 | PDF
A FIGMENT full of imagination – Flaneuserie, 06/05/2010
Figment Boston 2010 – AIB Illustration & Animation Blog, 06/20/2010
Photo of the Day: Riverfest Sunlight – Bostonist, 06/08/10 | PDF
River Festival Draws Crowd to Make and Celebrate Art – Cambridge Community Television, 06/7/2010
Cambridge Arts Council’s 31st Cambridge River Festival – Teenlife, 06/05/2010 | PDF
A ‘Figment’ Of Your Imagination At Cambridge River Fest – WBUR,06/04/2010
Trippy art fest FIGMENT comes to Boston on June 5 – Boston Phoenix, 05/21/2010
Jackson
Jackson art lovers become part of show (video) – WAPT News, 04/29/2012
Shaping Notions of Art – Jackson Free Press, 04/25/2012
Art Revival – Jackson Free Press, 05/11/2011 | PDF
‘Can-Do’ Attitude Bringing Figment to Jackson – Find It On Fondren, 04/20/2011
FIGMENT Organizers Call for Participation – Jackson Free Press, 03/04/2011
[West] More Than A Figment – Jackson Free Press, 02/23/2011
Kimberly Jacobs profile – Jackson Free Press, 01/19/2011
JFP Person of the Day: David Koren – Jackson Free Press, 11/11/2010
Washington DC: 2012
FIGMENT DC Art Gathering At Yards Park Requires A Smile And Maybe A Kite (PHOTOS) – Huffington Post, 09/28/2012
Photos: Pure Imagination and No Inhibitions at First Annual FIGMENT DC – The GW Hatchet, 10/01/2012
Pittsburgh: 2012
The Figment festival of interactive art makes its Pittsburgh debut – Pittsburgh City Paper, 10/03/2012
San Diego: 2013
FIGMENT San Diego palette of people – San Diego City Beat, 03/26/2013
FIGMENT: the art of inclusivity at Chicano Park – San Diego Reader, 03/27/2013
Come out and play – San Diego Reader, 04/24/2013
